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the promise of money for the preferable adherence to scientific 

 truth. One volume appeared froin Dejean himself, the Species 

 General of 1825, it covered his Carabidse and is his best monu- 

 ment today. (To be concludsd.) 



Lepidoptera. — Mr. Edward D. Keith, of Providence, R. I., 

 reports among species taken last summer rare in that locality 

 Pieris protodice ovipositing on pepper grass, Pamphila philceus, 

 Polychrysia formosa, Autographa oxygramma, and Autographa 

 verruca. 



New Neuroptera from the United States. 



By Rev. Longings Navas, S. J., Zaragoza, Spain 



Two sentences of a letter from my friend, Mr. J. R. de la 

 Torre Bueno, dated October 19th last, have led me to write 

 this paper and send it to America. He said, in regard to the 

 Brooklyn Bulletin: "I trust that from time to time when you 

 have any paper on material I may have sent you, you will 

 kindly favor us with it. . . . It is our wish to make this 

 publication one of the best in the United States." I at once 

 looked up the Neuroptera from the United States I was working 

 on, and I have prepared these notes which I send on with pleas- 

 ure to help in the good intentions of Mr. de la Torre Bueno. 

 If I should have the happiness of a good reception on the other 

 side of the Atlantic, it would be the best of incentives for more 

 work. 



Family MYRMELEONID^: 1. Mastega gen. nov. 



Similis Cryptoleoni Banks. 



Antennse thorace haud longiores, clava forti. Prothorax 

 trans versus. 



Abdomen ala posteriore brevius, saltern in 9. 



Pedes fortis, tibiis I, II femoribus I, II brevioribus, tibiis 

 posticis femoribus paulo longioribus; calcaribus nullis; tarsis 

 articulis primo et quinto longis, quinto longiore, intermediis 

 brevibus. 



Alse linea plicata manifesta; area costali angusta, venulis 

 plerisque simplicibus, aliquot f urcatis ; area radiali paucis venulis 

 internis. 



Ala anterior area costali paucissimis venulis gradatis ante 

 stigma; area apicali duplici serie venularum gradataruin; area 

 ' cubitali partim biareolata. 



