258 Ins. 
NEQROPTEKA. 
Hemerobiidce. 
Uemerobius ele<jans ) Steph., in Grand Canary; McLaclilan, J. L. S. 
xvi. p. 162. Notes on other species of the gonus ; id. ibid. 
Psectra diptera, Burm. Note on an example from Italy, with general 
remarks on distribution, etc. ; McLaclilan, CR. Ent. Belg. xxvi. p. lxxvii. 
Chrysopidce. 
Saunders, William. On the mouth of the larva of Chrysopa. Am. 
Nat. xvi. pp. 825 & 826. 
The larva thrusts its mandibles into the body of an Aphis , and pro- 
ceeds to pump it dry, in which it is aided by a sac-like dilatation at the 
base of each mandible ; when the abdomen is emptied, the mandibles are 
thrust into the head and thorax, and in a few moments nothing remains 
but the empty skin. 
Chiysopa minima , Kiljander, = C. dasyptera , McLach. ; McLachlan, 
Ent. M. M. xix. p. 117. 
Chrysopa jiaviceps , Brull<$, redescribed from the original type; McLach- 
lan, J. L. S. xvi. p. 168. 
Chrysopa for tunata (p. 164), Canaries, subcostalis ( p. 166), Canaries, 
and atlantica (p. 167), Canaries and Madeira, spp. un., McLachlan, l. c. 
Ascalaphida\ 
Two described species are figured in C. 0. Waterhouse’s Aid to Iden- 
tification, i., viz., Helcopteryx rhodiogramma y Ramb., pi. lxvii., and Asca- 
laphus ramburii t McLach., pi. xcix. 
Myrmeleonidce. 
Myrmeleon formicarius , L., erroneously quoted by Kiljander as a British 
species ; McLachlan, Ent. M. M. xix. p. 117. 
Myrmeleon distinguendus , Rbr. M . hyalinus , Brulle (from the Canaries), 
is believed to be identical, according to an examination of the type. A 
description of examples from Portugal is given ; McLachlan, J. L. S. 
xvi. p. 172. 
Dewitz, H. Mundtheile der Larve von Myrmeleon. B. E. Z. xxvi. 
pp. 61-66. 
An expansion of the author’s previous notes on the subject {of. Zool. 
Rec. xviii., Ins. p. 259), elucidated by diagrams. 
Coniopterygidce, 
Sciileohtendal, D. H. R. yon. Coniopteryx psociformisy Curtis, als 
Schmarotzer in Spinneneiren. JB. Ver. Zwickau, 1882. [Only 
separate copy seen, pp. 1-6, with one plate.] 
An important biological paper. The author found, in the middle of 
March, under bark of oak, nests of spiders ( PhilodromuSy &c.), in which, 
instead of eggs, were the larvae of C. psociformis (which were themselves 
frequently the prey of a hyper-parasitic Proctotrypid). They changed 
to pupae in the beginning of April (indoors), and the imagos appeared in 
the middle of the same month. A critical description of the imago is 
