256 Ins. 
NEOROPTERA. 
the actual number is by no means so great, the discrepancy resulting from 
synonymic causes. 
Important local lists of British species are given by J. J. King in Ent. 
M. M. xix. pp. 9-11, 83 & 84. 
The Recorder, in exhibiting a block of indusial limestone from 
Auvergne, stated as his belief that the rock was mainly (as has 
always been supposed) composed of the shell-covered cases of caddis- 
worms, which must have pertained to the Limnophilidce , and perhaps to 
Limnophilus itself. The formation was assigned by geologists to the 
Upper Eocene Period, but no fossil remains of the perfect insects of Lim- 
nophilidai were known from so old a period, and from a purely entomo- 
logical point of view he would be inclined to consider it of very much later 
date. P. E. Soc. 1882, p. xviii. 
Phryganeidce. 
Phryganea obsoleta very abundant in Inverness-shire ; a $ was observed 
to descend below the surface of the water three times to a depth of about 
eighteen inches, apparently for oviposition ; J. J. King, Ent. M. M. xix. 
p. 9. 
Limnophi lidcc . 
Mesophylax , g. n., McLachlan, J. L. S. xvi. p. 157. Allied to Steno- 
phylax , but differs in the spur of the anterior tibiae of the male being 
very minute, without any reduction in the length of the corresponding 
tarsal joint ; includes Stenophylax oblitus , Hag., and S. aspersus , Ramb., 
with var. n. ccinariensis (p. 157), from Grand Canary. 
Sericostomatid ce . 
Helicopsyche sperata , McLach. De Rougemont’s memoirs on this insect 
[cf. Zool. Rec. xvi. Ins. p. 204, & xvii. Ins. p. 199] are reproduced (with 
plate) inMT. schw. ent. Ges. vi. pp. 261-284, following an obituary notice 
of the author by Maurice de Tribolet. 
Leptoceridce. 
Setodes argentipunctella , McLach., very abundant near Amblesido ; J. J. 
King, Ent. M. M. xix. p. 84. Notes on the distribution of the species ; 
McLachlan, l. c . p. 21. 
Molanna palpata , McLach., occurs in Perthshire ; J. J. King, Ent. M. M. 
xix. p. 67. 
HydropsycJtidce . 
Tinodes grisea, Hag. McLachlan describes what he believes to be the 
male ; J. L. S. xvi. p. 159. 
Tinodes canariensis (p. 159), Canaries, and merula (p. 160), Madeira, 
spp. nil., McLachlan, l. c. 
JEcnomus. A new species indicated (without name) from Belgium and 
Portugal ; id. CR. Ent. Belg. xxvi. p. lxxviii. 
