NEUROPTERA-PLANIPENNIA — MALLOPHAGA. InS. 249 
Myrmeleon formicalynx pupating without forming a cocoon ; F. Rudow, 
Ent. Nachr. iv. p. 272. 
Ascalaphidce. 
Ascalaphus longicornis. Notes on eggs and young larvm of this 
species found by Ragonot in the Forest of Lardy, near Paris. McLachlan, 
P. E. Soc. 1878, p. 1 ; Ragonot, Bull. Soc. Ent. Fr. (5) viii. p. cxx. 
According to A. Giard, Bull. Sci. Nord, (2) i. p. 115, the fossil 
described by Oustalet as Ascalaphus edwardsi has no connection with 
this group, but probably pertains to the Orthoptera. 
Ohrysopid(B. 
Hypochrysa nohilis, Heyden, occurs at Fontainebleau ; Poujade, Bull. 
Soc. Ent. Fr. (5) viii. p. cxix. 
Chrysopa tenella, Schneider. Notes on its occurrence in Britain ; 
McLachlan, Ent. M. M. xv. p. 91. 
Osmylidce. 
Sisyra. The three European species are found at Paris ; McLachlan, 
Bull. Soc. Ent. Fr. (5) viii. p. cxviii. 
Pseudo-Neuroptera. 
Thysanura. 
Smynthurus lupulince, Bourlet, mistaken for Phylloxera^ and erroneously 
considered to cause damage to vines at Bar-le-Duc, in France. M^gnin, 
Bull. Soc. Ent. Fr. (6) viii. p. cxxxv. 
Notes on three Arctic species found N. of 78° during the voyage of 
the ‘ Alert ’ and ‘ Discovery,’ are given by the Recorder in P. L. S., xiv. 
p. 119. 
Podur [o] hippus, g. n. Megnin, Bull. Soc. Ent. Fr. (6) viii. p. cxiv. 
Between Achorutes and Lipura, Without scales ; abdomen of nine seg- 
ments; short saltatory apparatus; the joints of the antennae unequal. 
Type, P. pityriasicus^ sp. n., ibid. ; found on horses affected with pity- 
riasis at Bolbec, in Normandy. 
Smynthurus quadrimaculatus^ sp. n.,' Ryder, P. Ac. Philad. 1878, p. 335, 
fig., United States. 
Mallopgaga. 
Gurlt, — . Neue Verzeichniss der Thiere auf welchen Schmarotzer- 
Insecten leben. Arch. f. Nat. xliv. pp. 162-210. 
A useful list of mammals and birds known to be infested by Mallo- 
phaga (and A noplura), with the names of the parasites. 
A Physostomum (“ not unlike Ph. mystax”) found on a linnet in Eng- 
land, noticed and figured by W. A. Hyslop, Sci. Gos. xiv. p. 233. 
Notes on 7 species found north of 78° during the voyage of the ‘Alert ’ 
and ‘ Discovery ’ toward the North Pole, are given by the Recorder, 1. c. 
pp. 118 & 119. They comprise Docophorus ceblebrachys^ Nitzsch, on 
