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Addition to the list of British Triclioptera (Agrypnia picta, Kolen.J. — Mr. Pryer 

 oapiurtfd at a gas-lamp at Highgato, in Angaat, a ^ example of this insect, which 

 was submitted to mo by my frienrl Mr. Wormald. It is a North European species 

 of considorablo size, with the facies of a true Phryganea (in a generic sense), and 

 it will be remembered that the species was before erroneously brought forward as 

 British, a speciraan of Phry. ohsoleta having been mistaken for it. There is no doubt, 

 however, as to Mr. Fryer's insect. Where it may have been bred is uncertain : perhaps 

 the intense heat had dried up the water in its usual haunts, probably at some dis* 

 tance from London, and it was in search of some congenial locality. Trichoptera 

 have been unusually scarce this season, the water in many places where they 

 ordinarily abounded having disappeared altogether. — R. McLachlan, Lewisham, 

 &th September, 1868. 



Sialis fuUgmosa in Worcestershire. — I have three specimens of a SmZis which 

 accords very well with the characters of S. fuliginosa given in Mr. McLachlan's 

 " British Neuroptera-planipennia" — J. E. Fletcheb, Worcester. 



CaptvA-es of rare Neuroptera and Trichoptera. — llemerobius vnconspicuus, McLach. 

 On the 25th June last I met with a single example of this species in Addington 

 Park, Surrey. The only locality given by Mr. McLachlan in his excellent " Mono- 

 graph of the British Neuroptera-Planipennia'^ (Trans. Ent. Soc. 1868, pt. 2) is 

 Bournemouth, where it has been found by Mr. Dale in old furze bushes. My speci- 

 men was beaten from a fir-tree. 



Hemerohius condnnus, Steph. I beat from a fir-tree a fine specimen of this 

 species at the same time and place as H. inconspicuus. 



Setodes testacea^ Curt. When at Llangollen, North Wales, in the second week 

 in July, I beat from an alder on the banks of the Dee a single specimen of this 

 rather rare species. 



Chimarra marginata, L. I also captured at Llangollen some dozen specimens 

 of this local species. I took them by beating alders on the banks of the Dee, and 

 invariably where water was running rapidly beneath the bushes. — Percy C. Wor- 

 mald, 35, Bolton Road, St. John's Wood, N.W. 



Notes on the earlier stages of Argynnis 'Euphrosyne. — The pleasure one always 

 feels in striking off another species from the list of desiderata, is in this case greatly 

 enhanced by the fact that for some years Euphrosyne eluded the care and search — 

 not of myself only, but of several of my friends. 



We never had any difiiculty in getting the ? to lay its eggs, or the young 

 larvae to begin feeding, but the disappointment lay in the hybernation ; we never 

 could get a single larva to feed up in spring, nor could we, with all our searching 

 in fit localities, at that season, ever detect a lai-va feeding at large. However, our 

 attempts, though fruitless in one point of view, made us acquainted with the earliest 

 stages, which I will give before proceeding to the full-grown larva. 



The egg is of a blunt, conical shape, with its lower surface, which adheres to 

 the leaf, flattened, its sides are ribbed ; at first it is of a dull gi-eenish-yellow colour, 

 becoming afterwards brownish. Towards the end of June the larva is hatched, 



