NEUROPTERA-PLANIPENNIA. 
Ins. 201 
Neuroptera-Planipennia. 
Panorpidce. 
Notiothauma, g. n., R. McLachlan, Tr. E. Soc. 1877, p. 427. A very 
jemarkable form, nearest to Merope among known genera, having oval 
or conical hairy joints to the antennas; broadly oblong wings (over- 
lapping horizontally in repose), with dense reticulation and very broad 
costal area, the basal veins and mesonotum furnished with erect spines. 
Type, N. reedi, sp. n., p. 429, pi. x. div. a. Chili. 
Sialidce. 
Moody, H. L. The larva of Chauliodes. Psyche, ii. pp. 52 & 53. 
Concerns the habits and transformations of C. pectinicornis. [The 
Recorder would remark that this and some other references to the 
journal in which the above-noticsd paper was published, strictly belong to 
1878. The cover of the number in question bears the date “ July and 
August, 1877 ” ; the article just noticed has a reference to an event 
’occurring on the 21st Oct., 1877, and the separate advertisement pages 
(only) indicate that the part was issued on the 12th Jan., 1878. From 
the same source we learn that the part for Nov. and Dec., 1877, was not 
issued until the 12th April, 1878.] 
Corydalus cornutus, L. Riley, Rep. Ins. Mo. ix. pp. 125-129, supple- 
ments and corrects the account of its transformations given in his fifth 
report \cf. Zool. Rec. x. p. 431], more especially regarding the eggs. He 
points out that those referred by Walsh to this insect in all probability 
belong to a water-bug of the genus Belostoma^ the true eggs and the 
manner in which they are deposited being quite different. He figures 
the egg-masses and a newly-hatched larva. 
Nemopteridce. 
Himantopterus /wscewervis, Wesmael, should be transferred to the Lepi- 
doptera in the vicinity of Thymara ; McLachlan, OR. Ent. Belg. xx. 
pp. Ivi. & Ivii., and Westwood, Tr. E. Soc. 1877, pp. 437-439, pi, x. div. d. 
Myrmeleonidce. 
Schenck, Ent. Nachr. iii. p. 93, gives a Ijst of four species found in the 
Grand Duchy of Nassau and the adjoining districts, with notes. One of 
them is indicated as undescribed, and the peculiarities of its larva are 
given. 
Mantispidce. 
Symphrasis, g. n., Hagen, S. E. Z. xxxviii. p. 208. Prosternum not 
divided (as in Mantispa) ; female with a long ovipositor. Types, S. sig- 
nata^ sp. n., ihid.^ Fort Tejon, S. California, and Mantispa myrapetrella, 
Westw. 
Mantispa hurqueij Provancher, = M. hrunnea, Say ; Provancher, Nat. 
Canad. ix. p. 174. 
