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NEUROPTERA. 
duliina, with analytical tables, in which the Legion is made to include the 
“genera” Cordulia , Gomphomacromia , Cordulephya , and Neophya , the 
two former with numerous “ sub-genera” ; a special table deals with 
Gomphomacromia which, on neural characters, includes Oxygastra , Gom- 
phomacromia (as subgenus), and throe new subgenera. 
Syncordulia , subg. n. o£ Gomphomacromia , Selys, l. c. p. clxviii. Sec- 
tors of the arculus separated at their origin ; one row of post-trigonal 
cellules ; the tenth segment in the $ not prolonged, and the inferior 
appendage triangular. Type, Ep ophthalmia gracilis , Burm. 
Neocordulia , subg. n. of Gomphomacromia , id. ibid. Differs from Gom- 
phomacromia (as subg.) in having two rows of post-trigonal cellules, the 
inferior appendage of the $ long-oval, cmargiuato at tho apex, &c. In- 
cludes G. androgynis , setifera , volxemi, and batesi , Selys. 
Nesocordulia , subg. n., McLachlan, l. c. p. clxx. (included in Selys’s 
tabular synopsis of Gomphomacromia. Sectors of the arculus united at 
their origin ; two rows of post-trigonal cellules ; tenth segment prolonged 
into a conical point; inferior appendage triangular. N. flavicauda,sp. n., 
ibid., Madagascar. 
JEschnina. 
Stefan elli, P. Osservazioni sui costumi e sullo sviluppo del 1’IEschna 
cyanea, Miill. Bull. Ent. Ital. xiv. pp. 236-238 ; cf. Nature, xxvi. 
p. 89. 
The nymphs come out of the water at night and attack and devour the 
• newly-emerged imagos of the same species. 
Anax ephippiger in great numbers on the West Coast of Africa far from 
fresh water; G. F. Mathew, Ent. M. M. xviii. p. 258. 
C. Marchal, Feuill. Nat. xii. p. Ill, narrates the proceedings of an 
AEschna grandis , which struck the saud with its abdomen very rapidly 
at one centimotro from tho edgo of the water ; ho thinks it was covering 
eggs already laid, and not laying them. 
Anax mauricianus , Ramb. A male of what is believed to be this insect 
is recorded from Madeira, with notes on the close affinity to, and slight 
differences between, it and A. formosus ; McLachlan, J. L. S. xvi. 
p. 182. 
A. H. Mundt records an enormous migration of JEschna heros , F., in 
Illinois on Aug. 13th, 1881, the course was south-westerly ; Canad. Ent. 
xiv. pp. 56 & 57. 
Heliceschna,. g. n., De Selys, Congr. Sc. x. p. 667. Differs from Gyna- 
cantha by the basal area being reticulated (no type stated), Cameroons. 
Gynacantha hyalina , p. 19, basiguttata ) p. 20, Selys, An. Soc. Esp. xi., 
Philippines, spp. nn. 
Gomphind . 
Hagenius brevistylus , Selys. Remarks on the nymph-skins of this 
sppcies are given by McLachlan in P. E. Soc. 1882, p. xx. 
Hagen, Naturo, xxvii. p. 173, alludes to certain tracks on tho saud 
towards a Avillow tree a hundred feet from the river, made by the nymphs 
