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the Lymington Eiver, near Brockenhurst. Neither can I say with certainty that it 

 was taken by myself, for my companions generously transferred to my bottle such 

 Neuroptera as fell in their way. All I can do is to record the occurrence as a con- 

 tribution to the distribution of the species in Britain. — E. McLachlan, Lewishami 

 London : June ZOth, 1894. 



Rhaphidia notata, F., and R. maculicollis, Steph., common in the New Forest. — 

 When I arrived at Brockenhurst, I found that Messrs. Sharp and Champion had 

 been taking these two species commonly, in fact, in greater plenty than I had ever 

 before seen any species of the genus in this country. By the time of my visit they 

 were apparently becoming scarcer. They were beaten from various kinds of trees, 

 if old and lichen-covered so much the better; and they also occurred in the flowers 

 of hawthorn and Viburnum opulus. The larvee were to be found in dead wood, and 

 under bark, and were not unfrequently disclosed by the beetle hunters, and they 

 were sometimes dislodged by beating the jagged ends of broken branches on living 

 trees. I have one larva, that I think belongs to R. maculicollis, in a glass tube with 

 rotten wood ; it is fed occasionally with a fly, and seems to thrive ; I suspect it 

 feeds at night, for I have never been able to detect it in the act. — Id. 



Nothochrysa capitata and other Neuroptera in Surrey. — On June 22nd, while 

 beating the fir trees at the Hut Pond, Wisley, Surrey, my brother and I disturbed 

 and captured a specimen of Nothochrysa capitata. The HemerohiidcB were out in 

 numbers, the chief being H. concinnus, H. inconspicuus, H. limbatus, and H, 

 nitidulus. 



We also took one Rhaphidia notata. Chrysopa aspersa was plentiful, and C. 

 tenella rare. 



On the 30th, at Newark Abbey, Ripley, Platycnemis pennipes was common, and 

 I took one fine blue variety of the $ , resembling the figure in Charpentier's " Libel- 

 lulinse Europseee," pi. 48. There seems to be a disparity of sex in this species, or 

 else the $ has a more wandering habit than the ? , as I took nineteen $ and only 

 two S , while on an earlier occasion I took four $ , and only one fj . 



Chrysopa phyllochroma occurred in the waste land around the Abbey. I took 

 six, and, probably, lost as many more, as they were difficult to see and catch ; when 

 disturbed, they fluttered along the surface of the herbage for a few yards, and then 

 dropped, and were difficult to move again. Although the field was to a great extent 

 surrounded by luxuriant hedges with elm trees, and by the river, with clumps of 

 alders, I failed to beat out a single specimen, all that I saw were walked up from 

 among bugloss and thistles in the most open and hottest part of the field. I also 

 took one Hemerobius elegans. — C. A. Beiggs, 55, Lincoln's Inn Fields : July, 1894. 



Birmingham Entomological Society: June 19,th, 1894. — Mr. R. C. 

 Bradley in the Chair. 



Messrs. C. F. Haines, Stourbridge, and R. W. Fitzgerald, Uley, Dursley, 

 Gloucestershire, were admitted Members of the Society. 



The insects captured on the Cotswolds during the recent visit of the Society 



