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ZOOLOGICAL LITERATURE. 
Ascalaphidae, 
Buho dietnchi<By sp. n., Brauor, Verb, zool.-bot. Gesell. Wien, xix. p. 16, 
Eockbampton. 
Myrmeleonidoi. 
Packard (Guide, p. 612) figures Myrmeleon obsoletusj Say. 
Formicaleo subpunctulatus, sp. n., Brauer, Verb, zool.-bot. Gesell. Wien, xix. 
p. 16, Viti Islands. 
Panorpida, 
MT!jACHLAn (Trans. Ent. Soc. Lond. 1869) describes and figures tbe known 
European species of this genus, including also those from Asia Minor and 
Mingrelia, and remarks on the importance of tbe characters found in tbe form 
of the terminal abdominal segments of tbe males, in contradistinction to those 
deduced from colour, markings, &c., which are very variable. He describes 
twelve species, two of which were insufficiently known to him j eleven of 
these are figured, with details of the characters (plate 4). He also (/. c. p. 70) 
makes some remarks on the general geographical distribution of the species 
of Panorpa, and avows his belief that the genus Euphania of Westwood = 
Chorista of King, and that E, luteola is identical with C. australis, 
M^Laculan (Trans. Ent. Soc. Lond. 1869, pp. 399-401) remarks on tho 
characters of tho two European species of Bureus, and states his reasons for 
declining to admit B. westwoodii as a British species. He gives a woodcut of 
the ventral valve in the males of the two species. 
Kawall (Corresp. naturf. Ver. Riga) mentions having found a female of 
Boreus hyemalis under a stone among ants, and a male on the window of his 
house. 
Sanborn (Proc. Bost. Soc. Nat. Hist. xii. p. 409) records tho capture of 
Boreus brumalis, Fitch, at Medford, Mass., in April. 
Packard (Guide, p. 613) regards this family as affording a passage from 
the true Nmroptera to tho Thysanura. 
Bittacus hageni. Von Roeder (Berlin, ent. Zeit. 1869, p. 446) records the 
occurrence at Hoym, in Anhalt, of twelve specimens of this insect. The 
most northerly limit of the allied B. tipularius is five leagues south of 
Hoym. 
New species : — 
Panorpa cauoaska (He Selys, MS.), M^Lachlan, Trans. Ent. Soc. Lond. 
1869, p. 63, pi. iv. f. 2, Mingrelia ; P. gibberosa, M‘Lach. 1. c. p. 64, pi. iv. f. 6, 
Montenegro and Isle of Tinos ; P. connexUf M^Lach. 1. c. p. 65, pi. iv. f. 6, Min- 
grelia j P. annexa (De Selys, MS.), M‘Lach., = meridionalis, Schnd., nec 
Ramb., 1. c. p. 66, pi. iv. f. 8, Italy and Sicily j P. ghilianii, M‘Lach. 1. c. p. 67, 
pi. iv. f. 9, Turin ; P. nematogaster, M^Lach. 1. c. p. 69, pi. iv. f. 12, Java. The 
Recorder would here observe that the species described and figured by him 
as P. picta, Hagen, 1. c. p. 68, pi. iv. f. 11, is not the true species of that name, 
and should bear the appellation nigrirostris (Zeller, MS.). 
Bittacus nigriccpSf sp. u., Selys, Ann. Soc. Ent. Belg. t. xi. Oompt.-rond. 
p. Ixxvii, Port Denison. 
