266 Ins, 
NEUROPTERA. 
results derived from an investigation of the mechanism, &c., of flight in 
birds, and has a copious bibliography. An abstract, relating only to the 
thoracic muscles, is given by the author in Zool. Anz. iv. pp. 23 & 24. 
McLaciilan, Robert. Notes on Odonata of the subfamilies Corduliina^ 
Calopterygina^ and A grionina (Ldgion Pseudostigma), collected by Mr. 
Ruckley, in the district of the Rio Bobonaza, in Ecuador. Tr. E. 
Soc. 1881, pp. 25-34. 
Supplementary to notes published in 1878 \cf. Zool. Rec. xv. Ins. 
p. 257], so far as Ecuador in general is concerned. 
PoLETAJEFF, N. • Sur les muscles d'ailes chez les Odonates. Troudy 
Eut. Ross. xi. pp. 190-194. 
, Olga. Les Odonates de St. Petersbourg. A. c. pp. 97-119. [1880: 
cf. Zool. Rec. xvi. Ins .p. 213.] 
In Russian. Enumerates 8 Libellulina^ 3 Corduliina, 2 Gomphina^ 5 
JEschnina^ 1 Calopterygina^ and 8 Agrionina, with notes on larvae and 
habits. 
. Quelques mots sur les Organes respiratoires chez les Nymphes des 
Libellules, L. c. pp. 182-189. 
Also in French in Hor. Eut. Ross. xv. pp. 436-451, pis. xii.-xx. 
A list of 9 Lihellulidoi, 1 jEsohnidce^ and 6 Agrionidce^ collected in “ La 
Cerdana espanola,” is given by Cuni in An. Soc. Esp. x. p. 375. 
A sketch of the Odonate fauna of Algeria, by De Selys-Longchamps, 
appears in Rev. Montp. (3) i. pp. 183-185. Of 47 known species, 6 
pertain to the fauna of tropical Africa or Asia, 4, although apparently 
purely Algerian, may perhaps be found in the South of Europe. The 
remaining 37 species are European, but 6 of them are known only in 
restricted localities on that continent. Some comparative notes on the 
African fauna in general are also given. 
Notes on a few unimportant Belgian species are given by McLachlan 
and De Selys-Longchamps in OR. Ent. Belg. xxv. p. cxxxvi. 
The form of the stigmata discussed by 0. Krancher in Z. wiss. Zool. 
XXXV. pp. 551-553. 
Lihellulina. 
Migration of Lihellula quadrimaculata. G. Weidinger, Ent. Nachr. vii. 
p. 187, notices an immense swarm that passed over Dresden on May 
28th from south to north ; they were mostly males, and were followed by 
several species of birds which preyed upon them. At 1. c. p. 216, is a 
note on swarms in the Neisse Valley, one of which took two hours to pass. 
F. Landwehr, Z. c. p. 280, records a great swarm at Bielefeld on May 30th, 
going towards the north-west. 
16 species (of which 1 is new) recorded from Sumatra by Albarda in 
Veth’s Midden-Sumatra, iv. pt. 5, pp. 1-4. 
Palpopleura fasciata, L., figured in Waterhouse’s Aid to Identifica- 
tion of Insects, i. pi. xxxii. 
Zyxomma obtusum (Hag.), sp. n., Albarda, Z. c. p. 1, pi. i. figs. 1 
& 2, Sumatra. 
