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NEUROPTERA.. 
[McLaciilan, Robert.] Trichopteres, Nevropt^res-Plauipennes, et 
Pseudo-Nevropteres, rdcoltes pendant uue excursion en Belgique au 
mois de Juillet, 1881. CR. Ent. Belg. xxv. pp. cxxvi.-cxxxvi. 
Enumerates 112 species, including G2 Triclioptera^ 21 Flanipennia, and 
29 Pseudo- Ncaroptera (without the Odonatd). 
Rostock, M. Verzeichniss der Neuropteren Deutschlands, Oesterreichs, 
und der Schweiz. Ent. Nachr. vii. pp. 217-228. 
A name-list of 565 species of all families. At p. 285, the author gives 
additions and corrections. 
A brief sketch of the Order (limited to Trichoptera and Planipennia) 
and of the larger divisions is given by McLachlan, article “Insects,” in 
Encyc. Brit., 9th edition, xiii. p. 151. 
Preliminary notes on the fossil Neuroptera of the tertiary lake-basin 
at Florissant, Colorado, are given by S. H. Scudder in Bull. U. S. Geol. 
Surv. vi. p. 293. They appear to be made up largely of Trichoptera^ but 
there are many others. Some new generic terms are indicated, but they 
cannot be alluded to here until the descriptions appear. 
S. H. Scudder’s memoir on the Devonian Insects of New Brunswick, 
reviewed and abstracted in Arch. sci. nat. (3) v. pp. 291-293 ; Naturf. 
xiv. pp. 141-143 ; Am. J. Sci. (3) xxii. pp. 111-117 ; J. R. Micr. Soc. (2) 
i. p. 236 ; Ann. N. II. (5) vii. pp. 255-261. Eaton replies to Scudder’s 
criticisms in this memoir; Nature, xxiii. p. 507. 
Lithomantis carbonarius^ Woodward, should be referred to the Neuro- 
ptera ; Scudder, Geol. Mag. 1881, p. 296. 
Archceoptilus, g. n., Scudder, 1. c. 1881, pp. 295 & 296 ; type, A. ingens ^ 
1. c., fossil in the Carboniferous of Chesterfield. 
Lithosialis, g. n., id. 1. c. p. 299. Proposed for the fossil Corydalis 
hrongniarti, Mantell, which is considered of uncertain position. 
Trichoptera. 
Dewitz, H. Ueber die Pliigelbildung bei Phryganiden und Lepido- 
pteren. B. E. Z. xxv. pp. 53-60, pis. iv. & v. 
Concerns the development of the wings as traceable in the larvae. The 
author states that the place in the two groups is very similar, and tends 
to prove their near connection. The figures show the wing-rudiments in 
a greatly enlarged manner. 
McLaciilan, Robert. Fiuska Trichoptera. Medd. Soc. Fonn. vii. 
pp. 159-189. 
A list of the species known to occur in Finland, with localities. Com- 
piled in Finland from the Recorder’s determinations, with introductory 
notes by J. A. Palm^n. 
. See Neuroptera (The General Subject). 
Weyenbergh, H. Over Argentijnsche Trichoptera^ No. 1. Tijdschr. 
Ent. xxiv. pp. 132-140, pi. xiv. figs. 3-13. 
An account of the habits and metamorphoses of a species given as 
Rhiacophila [sic] primerana^ sp. n. [The Recorder is of opinion that the 
