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NEUROPTEEA. 
Osmylidce. 
Stenosmylus citrinus, sp. n., McLachlan, Ann. N. H. (4) xii. p. 38, New 
Zealand. 
Isocelipteron fulvum re-described and figured by Costa, I. c. p. 6, fig. 4. 
Mantisjpidce. 
Mantispa brunnea. Hagen, P. Bost. Soc. xv. p. 300, states that the 
' lobes ' on the tarsi of this species, noticed in his American Synopsis, 
p. 208, are in reality the pollinia of an Orchid. 
Hemerobiidce. 
Megalomus hirtus, L., has occurred near Aberdeen, McLachlan, Ent. 
M. M. X. p. 90. 
Pseudo-Neuroptera. 
Thtsanura. 
Lubbock, Sir John. Monofi^rapb. of tlie Gollemhola and Thy- 
sanura. London : 1873, 8vo, pp. 1-265, pis. i.-lxxviii. 
This Ray Society volume is the most important work on these animals 
that has ever appeared. The author's views as to the position of the 
group as scarcely within the pale of the true Insecta have been pretty 
generally made known by papers published in former years in Tr. L. 
S. (cf. especially Zool. Rec, vii. pp. 446 & 447), and these are repro- 
duced in the present work, which consists first of a copious and 
exhaustive introductory portion treating on the bibliography of the 
subject ; secondly, an examination of the classification adopted by 
previous writers ; thirdly, the relations of the group with regard to the 
evolution of the Insecta, the author regarding Campodea as the living repre- 
sentative of a primaeval type from which all insects have derived their 
origin ; and fourthly, a systematic description and revision of the known 
species with copious synonymic and other notes. Appended, there is 
also an essay on the structure of the scales according to the observations 
of Joseph Beck and his brother, the late Richard Beck. The 78 plates 
are occupied by magnified figures of very many species (mostly coloured), 
anatomical structure, and delineation of scales. The Collemhola cor- 
respond pretty well to the old group Poduridce, and are divided by the 
author into six families, Papiriidai, Smynthuridce, Degeeriido!, Podurida;, 
Liparidce, and Anuridcn. The Thysanura (equalling the old Lepismidai) 
comprise 3 families, JapygidcE, Campodeida), and Lepismidce, and in all 
there are 22 genera, 16 of Collemhola and 6 of Thysanura. The new 
forms, &c., are noted below. 
Packard, A. S., Jr. Synopsis of the Thysanura of Essex 
County, Mass., with descriptions of a few extralimital 
forms. Rep. Peab. Ac. v. pp. 23-51. 
A descriptive synopsis, mostly consisting of new species, with a sketch 
of the literature of the American forms, and comparison of the fauna 
