Neuroptera, 139 



Order 8.— NEUROPTERA. 

 By W. F. KiEBT, r.L.S., F.E.S., etc. 



(PLATE XIV.) 



In this Order, Mr. Andrews collected a Termes, two Ant-lions, 

 and three wide-ranging species of Dragon -flies. One of the 

 latter is the ubiquitous Pantala Jlavescens, which inhabits almost 

 all the warmer parts of the world, from Egypt to I^atal, from 

 Kamtchatka to Ceylon and Australia and Tahiti, and from 

 Georgia to Brazil; it is even said to have been once taken many 

 years ago in the English Fens. It is almost certainly a migratory 

 species, and Mr. Andrews informs me that enormous swarms of 

 dragon-flies appear suddenly in Christmas Island from Java when 

 the wind is in the north and north-east, and disappear again in 

 a few days. 



ODOjNTATA. 



Family LIBELLULID^. 



Sub-Family LIBELLIJLI:N"JE. 



1. Pantala flavescens. 



Lihelliila Jlavescens, Fabricius: Ent. Syst., Suppl., p. 285 (1798). 



Mneteen specimens : from Flying Fish Cove, September 2 ta 

 October 20, 1897 ; West Coast, October, 1897, and March 28, 1898. 



2. Trithemis trivialis. 



Lihellula trivialis, Eamb. : Ins. Xevr., p. 115 (1842). 

 Four specimens. North Coast, on sea- cliffs. 



Family .^SCHis^ID^. 

 Sub-Family ^SOHNIN^. 

 3. Anax guttatus. 



^tehtia guttata, Burmeister: Handb. Ent., ii, p. 840, n. 14 (1839). 



Flying Fish Cove. 



One male specimen only. Bare ; only two or three specimens 

 seen. Called ' Bajah ' by the natives. 



