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'Vhe Queensland Naturalist. 
May, 1924 
INSECT NOTES. 
By R. Tllido’e. 
(a) Notes on Psychopsidae (Lace-wings). 
Neuroptera. 
Early in January Mr. J. (’. Hinith, our hon. Exeursion 
Secretary, handed me a very ])eantiful laee-Aving, oh- 
tained at Coominya, South Queensland. This Avas de- 
scril)ed by Xewman, in ‘‘The Entomologist" of TST2. as 
Psychopsis mimica. 
Mr. Barnard also ])resented me with live specimens 
of another species, about the same size, from BlackAvater. 
in the ('eniral District, Queensland, which proved new To 
science. These are now in llu' hands of Dr. Tillyard for 
description, with a stipulation that one speciimm should 
be lodg(‘d in our Queensland Museum, f had tireviouslj' 
given one to tin* Department of Agriculture, Brisbane, as 
the species of Psychopsidae are now known io })e of great 
economic value in the destruction of pests, the apple 
moth larvae, etc. 
To Mr. Franzen T am indebted for the loan of the 
small but rare species known as Psychopsis coelivagus, 
from the Brisbane distinct. 
The most remarkable of all these. hoAvever, is the 
large Megapsychops illidgei, liitherto only known from 
TambouriTie ^Mountain. South Queensland, of which bTit 
few specimens have been obtained, but that now on 
view came from Stantliorj)!*, S.Q., and is m the position 
as Avhen settled on a rock face, Avith closed Avings. 
(b) Notes on a Rare Neuroperous Insect of the Family 
Osmylidae, from Tambourine Mountain. 
About tAvo years ago I received from Mr. t’olii] 
Ge’ssmann. of Tambourine Mountain. Southern Queens- 
land, a neuropterous insect belonging to tin* family 
Avhich Avas named and described in 1916 by 
Dr. Tillyard^ Euporismus albatrox. The specimen then 
*Proc. Linn: Socy. of N.S.W.. 1916, Vol. xU.. Part 1. 
March 29th. p. 43. 
