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ZOOLOGICAL LITERATURE. 
Contains notices of various species and genera of Triclioptera 
and descriptions of some new forms. 
MacLachlan, Robert. On some new forms of Trichopterous 
Insects from New Zealand ; with a list of the species known 
to inhabit those colonies. Journ. Linn. Soc. Zool. vol. x. 
pp. 196-214j plate 2; September 25 and November 26, 
1868. 
. Notes sur la Monocentra lepidoptera de Rambur (Phry- 
ganides). Annales Soc. Ent. France, 4*^ serie, tome viii. 
pp. 749-752, pi. 12. figs. 7-13. 
Rostock, M. Verzeichniss sachsischer Neuropteren. Berliner 
entom. Zeitschr. 1868, pp. 219-226. 
A catalogue of the Neuroptcra and Pseudo-Neuroptera of 
Saxony, chiefly collected in Lusatia and on the Elbe. 
In the arrangement of these insects adopted by Brauer in his 
Synopsis of the genera of Neuroptera (Verb. zool. -hot. Ges. in 
Wien, xviii. pp. 361 et seq.) they are divided only into 5 families, 
of which the Strepsiptera are placed fourth. The others are 
Megaloptera (including the whole of the Planipcnnia), Sialidce, 
PhryganidcCj and Panorpidee. The Megaloptera are divided 
into the subfamilies Myi'meleonida, Ascalaphidce , Nemopteridce , 
Mantispida, Nymphidee^ OsmijUdcey Hemerohidoi, Chrysopidee, and 
Coniopterygideej and the Phryganidte into the ordinary sub- 
families. The analytical table of the genera of true Neuroptera 
is given by Brauer, 1. c. pp. 394-413. 
MacLachlan has published (Trans. Ent. Soc. Lgnd. 1868, 
pp. 145-224) a monograph of the British Neuroptera Plani- 
pennia, characterized by the same careful elaboration which is 
manifested in his previous works. His classification, which 
agrees pretty closely with that generally received, needs only to 
be briefly indicated. He recognizes 3 divisions of the group, 
namely, Stalina, Hemerohiina, and Panorpina, which are further 
subdivided into families as follows : — 
I. Sialina: — F am. 1. Sialidas (ASiWes) ; 2. Rapiiidiid^ (Itcqdiidia). 
II. IIemeiiobiina : — Fam. 1. IlEMEUOBiiDiB {Osmyhis, Sisyra, Psectra, 
Prtpampiaryx, Ilemerohius, Meyalovius, Mioromus ) ; 2. Oonioete- 
rygidaj {Coniopteryx)\ 3. Chrysopid^ {Chrysopa^ Nothochrysa,^.vi.). 
III. Panorpina : — Fam. 1. Panorpidee (Panorpa) ; 2. Boreidad (Poreus). 
The illustrations consist almost entirely of outline figui-es of the wings and 
other characteristic details of the insects described. They are as follows : — 
Sialis hdaria (Linn.), pi. 8. figs. 1-1 S. ftdiymosa (Piet.), figs. 2-2 cj 
Paphidia notata (Fab.), figs 3-3 ej R. xanihodiyma (Schum.), figs. 4-4 c; 
R. cognata (Ramb.), wing, pi. 9. fig. 1 ; R. macidicollis (Steph.), wing, fig. 2 j 
Sisyra termmalis (Curt.), wings, fig. 3 ; Micromus variegatus (Fab.), figs. 4-4 & ; 
Psectra diptera (Bunn.), fig. 6 j Ilemerobius pellacidus (Walk.), wing, pi. 10. 
