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morphosis of those insects and the “flax-seed’* stage in Cecidoniyia de- 
structor'. 
Lachlania, g. n., Hag. Proc. Bost. Nat. Hist. xi. p. 372. Allied to Oligo- 
neuria, hut with only two tails and only three transverse veinlets in the 
anterior wing. Sp. L. ahnorrnis, n. sp., Hag. 1. c. p, 373, figured, Cuba. 
Centroptilum, g. n., Eaton, Entomol. Monthly Mag. vi. p. 132. Similar to 
Cloeon, but with four wings ; hind wings very narrow, with a long costal 
process and two simple longitudinal veins. Type C. luteolurn, Muller. 
Odonata. 
Packard (Guide, pp. 507-005) gives a general outline of the classification 
and anatomy of this division, and figures several species. 
Selys-Longchamps (Ann. Soc. Ent. Belg. xii. pp. 95-99) enumerates the 
species collected by Dr. Perceval Wright in the Seychelles. Of nine species 
five are new. Four {Lihellula hemihyalina, Desj., L, wrightii, n. sp., Agrion 
senegalense., Ramb., and Brachyhasis glabruj Burm.) are African forms, and 
five (Lihcllula trivialis, Ramb., Zygonyx luciifcra^ n. sp., Allolestes maclachlanii^ 
n. sp., Tr'ichocnernis cyanopsj n. sp., and T. hioittata^ n. sp.) are Asiatic and 
Malayan forms. 
Selys-Longchamps {1. c. pp. 105-106) catalogues 10 species collected by 
T. Deyrolle in Mingrelia. All were European species. 
Ausseber (Neurotteri Tirolesi) describes 63 species as occurring in the 
Tyrol. Of these, 18 are Libelhd{dm,Q Cordulidce, 6 Gomphidcey 11 AEschnidce, 
2 CalopterygidcBj and 20 Agrimiidce , — a very large proportion of the European 
species for so small a district. 
Kawall (Correspond, naturf. Ver. Riga) enumerates 19 species from 
Kurland and Livland. 
Von Roder (Zeits. gesammt. Naturw. 1868, pp. 15, 16) publishes a list of 
Pseudo- Neuropter'af chiefly Odonata^ taken by him in the vicinity of Hoym, 
in Anhalt. 
LihellulidcB. 
Neurothemis. Hagen, Stettin, entomol. Zeitung, xxx. pp. 94-106, de- 
scribes the following known species of this genus : — N. gigantca, Brauer ; N, 
sophronia, Drury ( = fulvto, Drury, $ ) ; N. rnanadensiSj 13oisd. ; N. palliata, 
Ramb.; N. apicalis^ Ramb. {^JluctuanSj Pm'm.,=vidua, Do llaan) ; and N. 
JiuctuanSy F. 
New genera and species : — 
Neophlehiay Selys, Pollen’s Voyage, p. 18. Upperside of the discoidal tri- 
angle of superior wings formed by two broken lines, so that this triangle is in 
the form of an irregular lozenge ; a single row of cellules, after the triangle, 
between the short sector and the superior sector of the triangle. Sp. N. 
polleni, 1. c. p. 18, Nossi 13(5 ; N. Icptojrtera, Selys, 1. c. p. 19, Moluccas ; N. lor- 
quiniy Selys, ibid., Moluccas. 
Lihcllula selika, Selys, Pollen’s Voyage, p. 16, Nossi B^; L. coronata, Selys, 
l.c, p. 17, Nossi Be ; L. croceipennisy Selys, Ann. Soc. Ent. Belg. t. xi. 
Compt.-rend. p. Ixvii, Mexico and Guatemala ; L. meriday Selys, ibid., Mexico 
and Venezuela ; L, {Dythernis) sallmiy Selys, ibid., Mexico ; L. wriglitiiy Selys, 
