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Nor am I aware that there is any recent literature relating to the remaining groups of insects. In the Neuroptera - the Dragonflies and Waterflies - this is the more regretable, since in their earlier stages they are entirely aquatic, and Norfolk, with her fens and broads, should, as Mr M'Lachlan anticipates, be able to give a good account of herself. Winter collected these beautiful insects about Aldeby and Beccles in 1860, and put a few upon record [v. Ent. Wk. Int. ix. 188], and at the latter locality I have taken the uncommon Libellula fulua and Aeschna mixta, though south of the river. The Orthoptera - Grasshoppers and Crickets - of the eastern counties do not appear to excel in number nor variety. Xiphidium dorsale will, doubtless, be found abundantly in all the marshes, as it is at Oulton, &c., south of the Waveney. The Land of the Broads must also yield a grand harvest and much food for study to that Dipterist, who is bold enough to attack a county list in which the tiny Nematocera would so largely figure, though he should have little difficulty in thence augmenting the British List.
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