THE GENERAL SUBJECT, TRICHOPTERA. 
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and pupes of many insects, and the stigmata of the imago, in order to show 
that no genetic connection exists in the two systems. His conclusions 
are mainly drawn from examinations of many Neuropterous insects, such 
as EphemeridoSy Perlidm, Trichopteray and Sialis. He supplements the 
observations of Newport, Gerstacker, and others, on the existence of 
branchise in the perfect insect, and in an extended manner, proving that 
branchiae in a more or less complete state of persistence are found in the 
imago of many species where such a condition had not been suspected, 
side by side with the ordinary stigmata, but not connected therewith. 
On the whole, however, he does not consider these branchiae serve any 
functional purpose in the perfect insect. 
Goldenberg, Fauna Saraepontana Fossilis,” Heft ii., enters at length 
into an examination of the fossil insects of the Carboniferous of Saar- 
bruck, in which Pseudo- Neuroptera and Orthoptera take the most promi- 
nent position. With the former, it is here thought best to include those 
critical extinct forms for which the author erected the order Palaiodic- 
tyoptera. The following are given as new DictyoriMira eleganSy p. 9, 
pi. i. fig. 1, elongata, p. 10, pi. i. fig. 2, schmitzii, p. 11, pi. i. fig. 3, o&so/e/a, 
ibid. pi. i. fig. 4 ; Termes laxa, p. 17, pi. i. fig. 5 ; Termitidium (g.n.) 
amissuniy p. 17, pi. i. fig. 6, T. (?) rugosurriy ibid., pi. i. fig. 14. 
Species of all families collected during two excursions in Belgium, 
firstly lo Calmphout, secondly to the Hautes Fagnes, are noticed by De 
Selys-Longchamps & McLachlan in CR. Ent. Belg. xx. pp. xxxi. & xxxii., 
xxxix., & lx. 
A List of a few species found in Podolia is given by M. Lomnicki in 
Sprawozd. Kom, fizyogr. xi. pp. 140-148. ' 
P. R. Uhlor gives a list of species in all families captured by him dur- 
ing the explorations of the U. S. Gcol. Survey in 1875. Bull. U. S. Qeol. 
Surv. iii. pp. 788-791. 
TRlCHOn’ERA. 
McLachlan, R. A Monographic Revision and Synopsis of the Tricho- 
ptera of the European Fauna. Part vi. pp. 281-348, pis. xxxii.- 
xxxvii. (May, 1877). London and Berlin, 8vo. 
Entirely occupied by the LeptoceridcBy of which 52 species are 
described. As in former notices of this work, no analysis will be here 
given of the numerous changes in riomenclature, synonymy, &c., and 
only the new species will be recorded. 
Phryganea operta. A fossil from the Tertiaries of Colorado is thus 
named by Scudder; Bull. U. S. Geol. Surv. iii. p. 762. Its affinities 
appear to be doubtful. 
LimnopMlicIce, 
Limnophilus suhmaculatuSy Rbr., occurs on the Hautes Fagnes, Belgium 
(on the Prussian frontier). De Selys-Longchamps & McLachlan, CR. 
Ent. Belg. xx. p. xl. 
