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E. flavicinctata.— Lochinver ; not common. Its usual food- 

 plant, Saxifraga aizoides, is not found there, and the larval pabulum 

 was no doubt Sedum sp. 



Xanthorhoe montanata.*— Common and very variable ; some 

 of the forms resemble ab. shetlandica, Weir. 



X. fluctuata. — I only saw one example at Lochinver ; this is a 

 very dark example of ab. neapolisata, Mill. 



X. galiaia.— One example only ; Lochinver, Mr. Whittle. 

 _ X. sociata*— Abundant ; not showing any approach to the 

 Hebridean form obscurata, South. 



X. tristata.— Lochinver, not common ; a black and white form 

 resembling the Yorkshire specimens, and not the smoky brown 

 ordinary Scottish form. 



(To be continued.) 



NOTES ON BRITISH NEUROPTERA IN 1921. 

 By W. J. Lucas, B.A., F.E.S. 



As Neuroptera were not persistently worked for during 1921, 

 not many records were made, and those that follow were often 

 noted chiefly for the sake of the dates. 



Alder-flies. — Two males of Sialis lutaria, Linn, were taken 

 in the New Forest on May 18. The dusky S.fidiginosa, Pict., 

 which is a less common and somewhat later insect, I met with 

 first on June 1 at Blackwater in the New Forest. South took 

 S. lutaria on June 1 at Harefield in Middlesex, and on the 14th 

 at Padworth in Berks. 



Brown Lacewings. — My first capture of the antlion-like 

 Osmylus chrysops, Linn, was made at Queen's Bower in the New 

 Forest on June 5, though I possibly saw one in the Forest about 

 three weeks earlier. Two or three further examples were met 

 with near Blackwater on June 8. These were all I saw during 

 the season of an insect which I hoped to meet with more freely. 

 Hemerobius micans, Oliv. was taken near Withybed Bottom at 

 Stony Cross Plain in the New Forest on Aug. 4. My first experi- 

 ence with H. stigma, Steph. in 1921 occurred on Jan. 13, when 

 one was captured flying on Esher Common, Surrey; another was 

 taken there on Jan. 24. About twelve were secured on Jan. 80, 

 when I visited the Common again with C. L. Withycombe ; these 

 were obtained by tapping small Scotch Firs over a beating-tray. 

 On Feb. 4 a male was taken on Esher Common. On Feb. 21 

 two were beaten from Scotch Firs on the same common, and on 

 March 10 one only was captured there in the same way. On 

 March 22 I visited Stanmore Common, Middlesex, with South. 

 Only one Conifer was met with, but from this a few examples of 



