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THIS volume completes the author's account of A the British Neuroptera. It is in every way up to the standard of volume 1, which was published in 1936 and has already been noticed in these columns. In volume 2 the subject-matter is concerned with the remainder of the family Hemerobiidse together with the Chrysopidse. Of the Heremerobiidse it is noticed that the genus Hemerobius, as now understood, comprises eleven British species. Of the other genera of the family, Boriomyia with five British species, has undergone change of name. In the appendix to this volume the new genus Kimminsia is erected by the author to take its place. Of the rarer forms, Megalomus and Drepanopteryx, each with a single British species, are still comparatively little known. Some account of the metamorphosis of the first named is given, but as regards Drepanopteryx no progress has been made in our knowledge of its biology since a brief note by Standfuss published in 1910. Of the Chrysopidae, fourteen British species are dealt with and these belong to the genera Chrysopa and Naihanica.
A Monograph of the British Neuroptera
By Frederick James Killington. Vol. 2. (Ray Society Volume 123 for the Year 1936.) Pp. xii + 306 + plates 16–30. (London: Bernard Quaritch, Ltd., 1937.) 25s.
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I., A. A Monograph of the British Neuroptera. Nature 143, 836 (1939). https://doi.org/10.1038/143836b0
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