neuhoptera. ■ 517 
25. Ogcogaster (Westw.). Alse latiores, posticarum postc. furcata ; abd. 
dilatato, 
26. Bubo (Ramb.) =■ Broctarrelahis (Lefebvre). Alee angustoe^ postic. 
postc. furcata. 
27. Colohoiiterus {Bdixnh.). Ala 0 angustse^ excisse, postic. postc. furcata. 
MacLachlan notices the want of all observations on the eggs of Myrmt- 
leon formicarius. The egg-like bodies mentioned by GeolFroy as being dis- 
charged by these insects immediately on leaving the cocoon are said by 
MacLachlan to be solid; and probably equivalent to the meconium. The 
eggs of AscalapJms mnearonms were observed by Kollar deposited on the 
stem of a grass ; and MacLachlan has received those of an Indian species of 
this family on a twig of mulberry. Ills larvae of the common ant-lion lived 
in England nearly a year before changing to pupae. Bull. Soc. Ent. Fr. 1866; 
p. xvi. See also Proc. Ent. Soc. Lond. 1866; p. vi. 
Formicaleo longicornis (Br.) and Myrmeleon nicoharicus (Br.) are fully 
described by Brauer; Reise der Novara; Neur. pp. 42 & 43. 
Hagen (Stett. ent. Zeit. 1866, p. 288) describes the larva of Palpares his- 
panus (Hag.). He also refers to the character and distribution of Acanilia- 
clisis occitanica (Voll.) and A. hcctica (Ramb.); 1. c. pp. 288-289 ; to Orcagns 
jdumheus (Oliv.) -=pictus (Burm.) and several nearly allied or identical formS; 
1. c. pp. 289-290 ; to the distribution of Macronemurus appendiculatus (Latr.) 
and Myrmeccelurus trigrammus (Pall.); 1. c. p. 290 ; and adds Formicaleo tetra- 
grammicus (Fab.) and Myrmeleon formicalynx (Linn.) to Pictet’s list of 
Spanish Myrmeleontidce. 
HeMEROBIIDA3. 
Hagen (Stett. ent. Zeit. 1866, pp. 374-377) divides the inseets 
of tills family into the following genera. Ilis subfamily 
Nemopierida (seep. 515) ineludes the single Nemoptera , — 
Halter f Brachystoma^ and Himantopterus being regarded as sub- 
genera. The Mantispidee include the genera Mantispa and 
Trichoscelia, and the Coniopterygidee are formed by Coniopteryx 
and Aleuronia. The genera of the HemerobidcB and Chrysopidee 
are more numerous, as shown in the following synopsis : — 
A. Subcosta cum radio conjuncta ; sector primus radio paralleluS; sectores 
cooteros eniittons. 
1. Nymphes (Leach). Spatium subcosialo transversalibus permultis; ala 
trails versalib us multis ) plantula magna bifida. 
2. Osmylus Ocelli 3; spatium subcostale transversal! imabasalij 
ala transversalibus permultis ; sector primus radio approximatus. 
3. Gen. nov. Ocelli 3 j spatium subcostale apice transversalibus pluribus ; 
ala transversalibus permultis j sector primus radio separatus. Type Osmy/ws 
strigatus (Br.). 
4. Polystcechotes (Burm.). Spatium subcostale transversal! una basalij ala 
transversalibus serie gradata singula ; sector primus radio approximatus. 
5. Psychopsts (Newm.) = Arteriopteryx (Guer.). Spatium costale latum 
biareolatum; spatium subcostale transversalibus permultis; ala seriebus 3 
gradatis. 
6. Orrnismocerus (Blanch.)? 
7. /875yra(Burm.). Spatium subcostale latum liberum; ala transversalibus 
paucis. 
