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NEUROPTERA. 
Dilar prestoni^ sp. n., McLachlan, Ent. M. M. xvii. p. 39, Rio Janeiro. 
Gh'rysopidce. 
Eggs of some Australian species on a leaf of Eucalyptus^ exhibited ; 
G. Francis, P. E. Soc. 1880, p. vi. 
Chrysopa thoracicaj E. Piet, (name preoccupied), renamed picteti ; 
McLachlan, Ent. M. M. xvii. p. 63. 
Chrysopa clathrata^ E. Piet., 7iec Schneider, renamed lineolata ; id. 1. c. 
p. 63. 
Chrysopa. Six known species recorded from Portugal; id. 1. c. 
p. 107. 
Chrysopa pallida., Schnd., in Switzerland ; id. 1. c. p. 141, and Schoch, 
MT. schw. ent. Ges, vi. p. 51. 
Nothochrysa italica, Rossi. McLachlan, 1. c. p. 64, calls attention to 
certain spines concealed in a pouch in the abdomen of this species. 
Observations on the larva3 of some species of Chrysopa, made ah ovo, 
are given by H. N. Ridley, in Ent. xiii. pp. 21-23. 
Ascalaphidce. 
Ascalaphus hceticus, Rbr. A variety from Catalonia described ; De 
Selys-Longcharaps, OR. Ent. Belg. xxiii. p. xlviii. A similar variety 
occurs in Portugal ; McLachlan, Ent. M. M. xvii. p. 108. 
Goniopterygidee. 
Coniopteryx lutea, Wallengren. Notes on examples from Finland and 
N.W. Siberia, referred thereto; McLachlan, Ent. M. M. xvii. p. 21. 
Pseudo-Neuroptera. 
Thysanura. 
Haller, G. Mittheilungen iiber Poduriden. MT. schw. ent. Ges. vi. 
pp. 1-6. 
Reuter, 0. M. Collemhola and Thysanura found in Scotland in the 
summer of 1876 by Lina & 0. M. Reuter. Scot. Nat. v. pp. 204-208 
(January, 1880). 
Enumerates 22 species (with localities), of which 4 (Sminthurus lineatus, 
Reuter, Macrotoma vulgaris, Tullbg., Isotoma crassicauda, Tullbg., and 
Achorutes viaticus, Tullbg.) had not been previously noticed as British, 
and some new species are described. 
. Sur I’accouplement chez deux especes de POrdre des Collemboles. 
Ent. Tidskr. i. pp. 159-161. 
According to observations made on Sminthurus apicalis and elegantulus, 
Rent., the author confirms the statement by Olfers to the effect that the 
$ seizes with its antennae those of the $ , round which its own are coiled 
(see fig., p. 160), and then leaps back to back upon her, remaining in this 
position several days ; the antennae of the $ are furnished with hooks or 
processes, those of the $ are simple. The actual generative act has not 
been observed. The males die after being thus coupled by the antennae, 
