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Hemerobius were beaten ; though of a rather dark and well- 

 marked form, I take them all to be H. stigma. 



On April 4 I obtained a Hemerobius larva from a Scotch Fir 

 on Esher Common. In colour the thorax was bluish- white, with 

 two small semilunar black marks, one on each side of the 

 pronotum. The abdomen was yellowish-white with two longi- 

 tudinal rows of dark blotches — one on each side — and a fine 

 mid-dorsal black line. The larva was placed, with some Scotch 

 Fir aphides, in a glass-bottomed box, where it began to spin up on 

 April 6. Though the pale yellow cocoon, made between two 

 "needles," was very thin, I could not tell when the larva became 

 a pupa, but I think not at once. A nice imago of H. concinnus, 

 Steph. appeared during the dajtime on May 2. The pupa, of 

 course, leaves the cocoon before the final change, and in. this 

 case did so without revealing clearly the. place of exit. The 

 pupal skin was a very perfect one. South captured this species 

 at Padworth on June 12. 



Green Lacewings. — Chrysopa tenella, Schn. was captured at 

 Brondesbury, Middlesex, on June 1 (South). C. vulgaris, Schn. 

 was met with three times in the New Forest— on July 15 and 25 

 and on Aug. 31. Of C. prasina, Eamb. (= asversa, Wesm.) one 

 was taken at Esher Common on June 14 and two on June 22. 

 "Withycombe took his first specimen of the blue-green species, 

 C. perla, Linn, on May 21 ; I captured specimens on June 16 in 

 Juniper Valley, Boxhill, Surrey. South secured two Nothochrysa 

 capitata, Fabr. on or near Guelder Bose, Viburnum opulus, Linn. 

 at Padworth on June 12. 



Dusty-wings. — I have but one note on these tiny Neuroptera 

 with powdered wings — a capture of Semidalis aleurodiformis, 

 Sfceph., on the wing at Kamnor in the New Forest on June 5. 



Scorpion-flies. — My first experience of the genus Panorpa 

 was on May 23, when a female P. germanica, Linn, and a teneral 

 female P. communis, Linn, were captured in the New Forest. 

 By the 24th they seemed to be common, and a male P. communis 

 was taken, a male P. germanica being secured on May 29. On 

 May 31 Panorpas appeared to be very plentiful in the Forest, as 

 they were again on June 5. Their flight is usually clumsy and 

 of short duration, often nearly in a straight line. They quickly 

 fly off, or drop, when disturbed. On July 25 at Denny Bog a 

 female P. communis, a large and bright specimen but with wing- 

 tips damaged, when disturbed went down into the rank herbage, 

 and being followed tried persistently to hide in the deep grassy 

 growth at the base of the taller herbage — a frequent proceeding 

 of this species and its congener P. germanica. South took males 

 of P. communis and P. germanica at Padworth from June 12-14. 



Kingston-on-Thames ; 

 Feb. 4, 1922. 



