TRICHOPTERA, NEUROPTERA-I'LANIPENNIA. 
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Rhyacop hilidce . 
Rhyacophila meyeri , McLach., and a new species, recorded from the Yal 
Anzasca ; McLachlan, P. E. Soc. 1882, p. xviii. 
Hydroptilidce. 
Hydroptila. A new species obtained near Ambleside, England ; J. J. 
King, Ent. M. M. xix. p. 84. A probable new species from the Canaries 
noticed by McLachlan, J. L. S. xvi. p. 161. 
Hydroptila atra t Hagen, is a Stactobia ; id. ibid. 
Neuroptera- Planipennia. 
Panorpidce. 
Osten-Sacken, C. It. Ueber das Betragen des californischen fliigellosen 
Bitlacus ( B . apterus , McLach.). Wien. ent. Z. i. pp. 123 & 124. 
Concerns the habits of this creature, according to personal observation. 
It is acrobatic, and can swing itself from one grass-stem to another, often 
hanging by the anterior tarsi. Its apterous condition is, perhaps, best 
suited to the windy district it inhabits. With it occurs a semi-apterous 
form of Tipula (T. prcecisa, Low, var.). [ Cf '. Am. Nat. xvi. p. 596.] 
Panorpa picta ) Hagen. The species given under this name by McLach- 
lan in 1869 is probably distinct, and should take the name P. nigrirostris, 
Zeller, MS. ; McLachlan, Ent. M. M. xix. p. 132. 
Bittacus tipularius. Laboulbene announces the capture of this insect at 
St. Denis d’Anjou, France, and explains the method by which it attaches 
itself to grass-stems by means of the terminal joints of the tarsi ; Bull. 
Soc. Ent. Fr. (6) ii. pp. cxxxiii. & cxlviii. 
Boreus hiemalis , L., in the Departement de l’Aisne, France ; E. Simon, 
l. c. p. clxxiii. 
Panorpa hybrida, sp. n., McLachlan, Ent. M. M. xix. pp. 130-132, 
woodcuts, Oesel, Finland, and Saxony. 
Rhaphidiidce. 
Rhaphidia xantliostigma , Schum. The larvae found in the galleries of 
Synoxylon muricatum, F., in vine-stems ; F. A. Wachtl, Wien. ent. Z. i. 
p. 276. 
Mantispidce. 
Bolivar, Ignacio. Sobre la estructura de las patas pressores de la 
Mantispa perla, Pall. An. Soc. Esp. xi. pp. 35-40, woodcuts. 
Points out the real structure of the anterior legs, but contains nothing 
new, the descriptions in the authors mentioned having long been known 
as erroneous. 
Osmylidce. 
Osmylus langi and multiguttatus ) McLach., figured in 0. 0. Water- 
house’s Aid to Identification, the former on pi. lxxi., the latter on pi. xc.; 
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