Neuroptera

• Published in: Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society of London
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: English
• Published: The Royal Society 1879
• Subjects: Hagen; Kerguelen; Kerguelen Island; Molloy; Venus; Iceland
• Online Access: http://dx.doi.org/10.1098/rstl.1879.0024; https://royalsocietypublishing.org/doi/pdf/10.1098/rstl.1879.0024

[psocide. Rhyopsocus ecliptious, Hagen . Bulletin U. S. Nat. Mus., 1876, iii. 52—57. The true Neuroptera of Kerguelen Island are as plentiful as the snakes of Iceland; and it is doubtful whether there is any representative of this order indigenous to it, unless the Mallophaga , which must be placed somewhere, are reckoned as members of it. For the species of the Psocidce cited above, described from a single example taken at Molloy Point, and mounted on glass in balsam as a microscopic object, is of uncertain nationality, and may have accompanied the American Transit of Venus Expedition from Washington. Dr. Kidder (loc. cit.), recording its apprehension “on October 17, within doors,” remarks, “Shortly before “ its capture some instrument-boxes, brought from Washington, and containing a “ quantity of packing straw,. had been unpacked in the same room; a circumstance “ rendering the habitat of the insect very doubtful at the time.”]