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NEUROPTERA. 
A single species of this remarkable group is found abundantly in 
houses in India, flying about rooms in the dusk (fig. 72). We have 
observed it three years in succession in April and at no other time. The 
insect is a very graceful one, flying with a weak fluttering motion and 
hovering socially much as the mosquitoes do. A single larva of the type 
described as Nemopterous was found in a house in India; the charac¬ 
teristic is the immensely long Thin neck 
carrying the round head and formidable 
jaws (fig. 73). 
There is little reason to doubt that 
the larva of this Nemopterid lives in 
our houses and is probably predaceous on 
small forms of life ; careful search in 
odd corners and dusty places will pro¬ 
bably reveal the larva and clear up 
the life history of this insect. Nemoptera 
filipennis , Westw. is described and 
figured (Cab. Or. Entom., pi. XXXIY, 
fig. 6) from Central India. 
(After Roux.) 
Mantispince .—Forelegs predaceous after the manner of a Mantis. 
These obscure insects appear to be found but seldom in India, one spe¬ 
cies being known to occur in the plains. The imago has two pairs 
