25S [November, Trichoptera, Sfc, in North Devon.— In Ent. Mo. Mag., vol. xxvi, p. 316, Mr. McLachlan records the species of Trichoptera observed by himself and two friends on Exmoor in September, 1890, and by Mr. Stanley Edwards near Lynton, North Devon, from August 8th to September 18th, 1890. During a short stay at Lynton from June 9tli to 22nd, although most of my time was otherwise engaged, I wa able to add the following species to the Lynton list, and to assure myself of a ric < harvest next year : — Lasiocephala basalis, Diplectrona felix, Psychomyia pusilla, Ltipe phoeopa, and Olossosoma BoHoni, very large and dark. Of the species previousb' recorded, as above, Hydropsyche instabilis was out in countless myriads, and Philo-potamus montanus was generally abundant and very brightly coloured. I also took two Osmylus chrysops. In the East Lynn I secured a short series of Perla maxima and a few Perla cephalotes, the latter species not being delected until Mr. K. J. Morton kindly drew my attention to the differences between the species. Chloro-perla grammatica and Isopteryx tripunctata were common, as also was a Leuctra not yet quite determined. I trust next year to largely increase the list of Lynton Neuroptera. — C. A. Bbiggs, 55, Lincoln's Inn Fields : September 2nd, 1896. Notes on a few Neuroptera from the Tyrol. — The greater part of last month and the commencement of the present were spent by my friends Messrs. Champion and Lemann in the Tyrol. They kindly collected a few Neuroptet-a (in the broad sense) which they handed over to me, and as an item towards a local fauna that may possibly be of use hereafter, I have given a list of them. The approximate elevations of the localities mentioned are as follows : — Cortina, 3900 ft. ; Mendel, 4400 feet ; Campiglio, 4900 ft. ; Sorapis, 6-7000 ft. Trichoptera. — Limnophilus rhombicus, L., L. flavicornis, F. (the anterior wings strongly sprinkled with dark markings), and L. ignavus, McL. (one $ ) ; Seri-costoma sp. ( ? only) ; Odontocerum albicorne, Sc. ; Philopotamus ludificatus, McL. ; Tinodes dives, Piet. All from Mendel. Plampennia. — Panorpa alpina, Rbr., Sorapis and Mendel, P. communis, L., Campiglio and Mendel, P. germanica, L., var. apicalis, Steph., Cortina, P. cognata, Rbr., Campiglio ; Mhaphidia flavipes. Stein, Campiglio ; Osmylus chrysops, L., Mendel (common) ; Hemerobius nitidulus, F., Mendel, S. concinnus, Steph., var. Ai-fasciatus, Reut., Campiglio and Mendel ; Megalomus hirtus, L., Campiglio ; Chry-sopa ventralis, C, C. prasina, Burm. {aspersa, Wesm.), and C. vulgaris, Schnd., Mendel. Pseudo-Neueoptera. — Perla maxima, Sc, Campiglio (three <J , in colour nearly as dark as Scotch examples, but with ample wings) ; Nemoura variegata, Oliv., Campiglio; Sympetrmn striolatum,G\\&YY>-, and S. wcrie^ionaie, Selys (one), Cam-piglio ; iSoma^ocAZora arc^ica, Zett., Mendel (a pair, i^ 9 ) > Cordulegaster bidentatus, Selys, Campiglio (one ? ). — R. McLachlan, Lewisham, London : August I9th, 1896. Coleoptera at Broadstairs. — -While staying with friends near Broadstairs at the beginning of August I discovered that some of their early potatoes still remained in the ground, so I promptly relieved the gardener of the task of lifting them, and was delighted to take from the decaying seed almost all the Coleoptera which used to occur to me, under similar circumstances, in the same neighbourhood ten years
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