( 151 ) XI. Neuroptera-Planipennia collected in Algeria hy the Rev. A. E. Eaton. By Robert McLachlan, F.R.S., &c. [Read April 4tli, 1898.] I HERE enumerate the species found by Mr. Eaton in various parts of Algeria, during his stay in that country from the end of 1892 to the middle of 1897, interrupted only by occasional short visits to England. Mention is occasionally made of materials from the same region from other sources, according to specimens in my collection, but only when the same species are concerned. The number of species is not large, but nearly every-thing is recorded from the country for the first time, and a few new species are described. The general aspect of the materials is Mediterranean with occasional extensions to Asia Minor and Central Asia. No PanorpidiB, Sialidse, Rhaphidiidse, Mantispidse, or Dilaridse were found, but I have seen a Mantispa from Algeria, and the other Families probably exist there. Much remains to be done in the forests of the higher districts. The Family Coniopterygidis is not included. There is a considerable number of the minute insects representing this Family, and of four or five species, which will, I hope, receive attention in another paper. MYRMELEONIDiE. Palmares hispanus, Hag. Hah. Mdd^a, north side of Koudia Sma, about 3,180 ft., and another locality in the vicinity, July 1893 ; Constantine in June 1895, 2 ^ and 2 $ . Probably it is distributed all over Algeria, and is the species noticed by Lucas as P. libclhdoides. P. libcllnloides has been recorded as occurring in Marocco, but in the Entomol. Monthly Mag., xxv, p. 346, when writing on Neuroptera captured by Mr. J. J. Walker in Marocco, I implied a doubt as to confusion with P. liispanns, and at the same time gave distinguishing characters for separating the two. TRANS. ENT. SOC. LOND. 1898. — PART II. (jUNE.)
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