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ZOOLOGICAL LITERATURE. 
decephalized embryonic forms, the structures of all the other suborders of 
insects, and thus presenting, in advance, features which remind us of characters 
more fully wrought out in higher and more compactly finished groups of in- 
sects.” According to him the Neuroptera comprise the following families : — 
TermitidcBy Embidce^ Psocidce, Perlidce, Ephemeridce^ LihelluUdcej Sialidce, 
llemtrohidcd^ Panorpid^y Phryganeidce, Lepismatidcey CampodcBy and Po~ 
durid(B. 
Ausserer, in his ^ Neurotteri Tirolesi,’ gives a lengthy descriptive cata- 
logue of the Pseudo-Neuroptera of the Tyrol, on the plan of Brauer’s ‘ Neuro- 
ptera Austriaca.’ No new species are described, though such must exist in 
a district eminently favourable to the development of these insects. As a 
view of the fauna of the country, so far as the Odonata are concerned, the 
work is probably exhaustive, for the rest very imperfect j and it is disfigured 
by innumerable typographical errors. The author promises a second part, 
comprising the true Neuroptera. A cordial welcome is due to him as a 
debutant in the neglected field of European Neuropterology. 
Trichoptera. 
Packard (American Naturalist, iii. pp. 160-161) has published some 
general notes on the cases of the larva) of American species, and figures seve- 
ral forms. One of these is a sand-tube placed between two pine-needles ; it 
evidently belongs to some species of Leptoceridoi. 
Maklin ((Efvers. Finska Forhandl. xi. p. 78-81) notices the distribution 
of llolostomis pludoinoides and II. altaica in Finland. 
M‘Laciilan (Entomol. Monthly Mag. iii. pp. 160-161) records the occur- 
rence of Ilalesus uuricollis, Piet., and Tinodes sch7nidtii, Kolen., in Britain. 
Qlyphotedius selysii, sp. n., M^Lach. Ann. Soc. Ent. Belg. xii. p. 103, 
Mingrelia. 
Phryyanea arguSy sp. n., Harris, MS., Corre.spondence, p. 333 (Scudder), 
Maine. (A hitherto unpublished description, probably referring to a species 
of Ilalesus.) 
Neuroptera Planipennia. 
M‘Lachlan (Entomol. Monthly Mag. vi. p. 27) rectifies the synonymy of 
some species described by Wallter in the Trans. Ent. Soc. Lond. n. s. v. 
pp. 182-186. 
WoRMALD (Entomol. Monthly Mag. vi. p. 139) notices the capture of 
several rare British species. 
Sialida. 
Packard (Guido) describes and figures the eggs, larva, pupa, and imago of 
Corydalis cormda. 
M‘Lachlan (Ann. & Mag. Nat. Hist. 4th ser. iv. pp. 35-46) analyzes the 
value of the genera Corydalis, Hermes, Neuromtis, and Chauliodes. He sinks 
Hermes, the typical species of which ( JT. macidipemiis) he considers to pertain 
to Chauliodes. A synonymic list is given of the known species of Chauliodes 
and Neuromas ; and he describes the following new species : — Chauliodes fra- 
ternus, 1. c. p. 37, North China; C. tenuis, 1. c. p. 38, South Africa ; New'omus 
infectus, 1. c. p. 41, Darjeeling ; N. montamis, 1. c. p. 42, Sikkim Himalaya ; N. 
fenestralis, ibid., Darjeeling ; N. latratus, 1. c. p. 43, India ; N. intimus, 1. c. p. 44, 
India. 
