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tarsi pluriarticulate ; caudal appendages uneven in number, three or 
more, pluriarticulate. 
Fam. 2. lapygidm. Maxillfe entire ; palpi very short or obsolete ; protho- 
rax very small ; tarsi exarticulate ; caudal appendages two. 
II. Antennae pauciarticulate ; claws one or two, in the latter case unequal ; 
abdominal segments not more than seven. 
Fam. 3. Poduridce. 
The second family, as already stated, includes only the genera Campodea 
(Westw.) and lapyx (g. n.), the latter characterized as follows (p. 442) : — 
Antennae apice sensim attenuatae; maxilla radiis4; palpi labiales biarticu- 
lati; abdominis segmenta anteriora mutica, extremum maximum, apice 
appendiculis 2 exarticulatis, rigidis, falcatis, intus denticulatis, abdomine 
multo brevioribus, forcipem prehensorium fingentibus.” The species, lapyx 
solifugus, is figured with anatomical details on plate 44, which also contains 
figures of various parts of Campodea amhulans. 
Mallophaga. 
Giglioli (Quart. Joum. Micr. Sci. vol. iv.) describes and figures the follow- 
ing known species of this group : lApeurus diomedece (Fab.), /. c. p. 19, pi. 1b. 
figs. 1 & 2 ; Docophoroides brevis (J)vif.) — taurus (Denny), 1. c. p. 21, pi. 1b. 
figs. 3 & 4 ; both on species of albatros. 
Docopliorm mandarinus^ sp. n., Giglioli, Journ. Micr. Sci. vol. iv. p. 22, 
pi. 1b. fig. 9, on Merula mandarina. 
Nirmus mandarinus, sp. n., Gigl. 1. c. p. 23, pi. 1b. figs. 7 & 8, on Merula 
mandarina. 
Pseudo NEUROPT ERA. 
Hagen records (Aim. Soc. Ent. Fr. 4® ser. tome iv. pp. 38-46) 
the occurrence in Corsica of 13 species of so-called Neuroptera 
with imperfect metamorphosis, exclusive of the Dragonflies, of 
which a catalogue is given by De Selys-Longchamps. The 
number of species in each family is given by Hagen as follows : 
Termitides 2 species, Ephemerides 8 species, Perlides 3 species. 
Of these two are described as new species. 
Meyer-Durr (Mitth. Schw. ent. Ges. 1864, pp. 220-223) gives 
a list of 37 species of Pseudoneuroptera observed by him in 
the Engadin and Ticino in 1863. 
Termitida?. 
On the prevention of the destruction of timber by Termites, some observa- 
tions were made by Hearsey, Robinson, and Bates before the Entomological 
Society. Ent. Trans. 3rd ser. vol. i. Proc. pp. 185 & 186. 
Bonavia records that an admixture of the pulp of the American aloe 
with a plaster of clay and cowdung preserved it from the attacks of White 
Ants in the gaol at Lucknow. Technologist, vol. v. p. 237. 
Libellulid^e. 
De Selys-Longchamps records 24 species of this group in his 
