Key Words: Lacewing, Overwintering, Chrysoperla, Neuroptera, Artificial Chamber.

SUMMARY
This paper confirms that adult common green lacewings (identified as true Chrysoperla carnea Stephens) can be induced to overwinter in artificial chambers placed in the field for that purpose, and that wood is a better material than plastic in terms of the level of lacewing colonization. two sizes of wooden chamber were examined, one with a volume of 27.000 cm2, and one with a volume of 3.375 cm2. With only an eighth of the volume of the larger chambers, the smaller chambers attracted approximately one quarter of the number of lacewings. The smaller chambers had an inside surface one quarter that of the larger chambers (900 cm2 versus 3.600 cm2), indicating that surface area is the determining factor as to how many lacewings colonize. Implications of these findings and suggestions for further studies are discussed. No effect of chemical attractant was noted.
 

Key Words: Coniopterygidae, Taxonomy, Faunistics, Mediterranean Region, Iran.

SUMMARY
Coniopteryx (Xeroconiopteryx) furcata and C. (X.) israelensis (from Israel), and C. (X.) hastata (from Iran) are described as new species. Nimboa ressli is recorded as new for Israel, C. unguigonarcuata is new for the Arabian Peninsula and Nimboa vartianorum, Coniopteryx drammonti, C. lentiae, C. (X.) unicef and Hemisemidalis kasyi are new for Iran.
 

Key Words: Coniopterygidae, Amber, Dominican Republic.

SUMMARY
Spiloconis glaesaria sp.n. is described and two specimens of Coniopteryx are listed from Dominican Republic amber.
 

Key Words: Neuroptera, Myrmeleontidae, Systematics, Palaearctic.

SUMMARY
Five new species of the genus Epacanthaclisis (E. kuldurguch, E. alaicus, E. banksi, E. hamatus, E. samarkandicus spp. n.) from Central Asia are described. The description includes male and female genitalia of E. moiwanus (Okamoto, 1906) and E. continentalis Esben-Petersen, 1935. A key to the species of the genus is prepared. Three species of the genus Epacanthaclisis (E. continentalis, E. hamatus, E. samarkandicus), have a males with a pair of abdominal brushes of hairs on the IV tergite with probably pheromone dispersing function. E. moiwanus has no these brushes, and E. banksi has ones, much reduced.
 

Key Words: Neuroptera, Chrysopidae, Taxonomy, Faunistics, Costa Rica, Neotropical.

SUMMARY
Eight new species of Costa Rican Ceraeochrysa, Chrysopodes, Ungla, and Leucochrysa (Nodita) are described, and compared to closely related species.
 

Key Words: Neuroptera, Nymphidae, New Guinea, Australia, Taxonomy, New Species, Key.

SUMMARY
The Australian and New Guinean genus Osmylops Banks is reviewed and the armatus species group is revised. Nine species are recognized and treated in this group: armatus McLachlan, bispinosus n. sp., clavatus n. sp., crux n. sp., halberdis n. sp., placidus (Gerstaecker) [all from Australia], hirsutus New, monofoveatus n. sp., and nesos n. sp. [all from New Guinea]. Male and female terminalic structures are illustrated where known, and notes on the terminalic coupling system found in the armatus group are provided. A key to the 11 known species of the genus Osmylops is presented.
 

Key Words: Faunistical, Taxonomy, Hemerobiidae, America, Nearctic, Neotropical.

SUMMARY
New data on distribution and biology of 68 american brown lacewings species are given. Wesmaelius magnus (Kimmins, 1928) and Sympherobiusinnoceus Steinmann, 1965 are redescribed, and female genitalia of Hemerobiusneadelphus Gurney, 1948, Hemerobiellasinuata Kimmins, 1940, Conchopterella kuscheli Handschin, 1955 and Gayomyiafalcata (Blanchard, 1851) are described. Sympherobiushumilis Navás, 1914, S.scriptus (Navás, 1917) and S. blanchardi (Navás, 1929) are proposed as nomen dubium. Some new synonymies are proposed as follows: Sympherobius perparvus (McLachlan, 1869) = S.beameri Gurney, 1948, S.gayi Navás, 1910 = S.maculipennis Kimmins, 1929 and S.arizonicus Banks, 1911 = S.killingtoni Carpenter, 1940.  Hemerobius pectinicornis n.sp. from Ecuador, Honduras, Costa Rica and Mexico, Hemerobiella oswaldi n.sp. from Venezuela and Sympherobius intermedius n.sp. from Chile are described as new species.
 

Ellis Gilmore MacLeod, Associate Professor of Entomology at the University of Illinois, passed away from prostate cancer on October 23, 1997, after a long and distinguished teaching career. He is survived by his wife Morna, three children and seven grandchildren.
Born in Washington, D.C., on September 3, 1928, Ellis joined the maritime services while he was underage and served in the US Army Aircorps during World War II. After the war, he entered the University of Maryland on the G.I. Bill, where he obtained his bachelor's degree in Biology in 1955 and his master's degree in 1960. While continuing his studies at Maryland after completing his master's program, he was invited by Frank Carpenter to study for his Ph.D. at Harvard, where he earned his doctoral degree in 1964. The next two years he spent as a postdoctoral research fellow and instructor at Harvard, and as an instructor at Brandeis University. During the summers he reared monarchs for schools.
    In 1966 Ellis chose employment at the University of Illinois over the University of Victoria, British Columbia, influenced by Illinois' offer of a microscope, and started his life's work of teaching and biological research. During his 31 years at Illinois he taught courses in Insect Systematics, Introductory Entomology, Applied Entomology, Introductory Biology, and an extremely popular undergraduate course "Cells and Tissues". Ellis was a consummate teacher. He delivered fascinating, well-planned, challenging lectures, possessed an encyclopedic knowledge of almost every subject and was always ready to consider any well reasoned argument. In 1994 his outstanding teaching abilities were officially recognized by the William F. Prokasy Award for Excellence in Undergraduate Teaching in the College of Liberal Arts and Sciences of the University of Illinois.
    Among Ellis' special interests were birds and butterflies of Eastern North America, the butterfly genus Colias, hiking up mountains (he conquered Half Dome) and poetry. His knowledge of the natural world was immense, and he was the preferred sounding board for developing new ideas for almost all who knew him -- a scientific muse.
    In a publishing career spanning 42 years (1955 to 1996) Ellis authored or co-authored at least 26 works on neuropterid insects (see list below), including 13 senior-authored and 11 junior-authored journal articles, a masters thesis and a Ph.D. dissertation. His first published work, however, appears to have been a short distributional note on Boloria bellona toddi, the Meadow Fritillary butterfly (MacLeod 1955).
    Ellis’ special interest was in the biology of neuropterid insects and he was the first or among the first to rear many unusual species of North American Neuroptera, including berothids (Lomamyia), dilarids (Nallachius) and many species of hemerobiids and chrysopids. His early interests in biology and rearing lead naturally to his post-baccalaureate studies on the morphology of neuropterous larvae, particularly the head capsule. In his master's thesis (MacLeod 1960a) he examined the head capsule of the hemerobiid Boriomyia fidelis, confirming on the basis of larval characters the earlier suggestion of Carpenter that the affinities of Boriomyia lay with Megalomus rather than Kimminsia (now Wesmaelius). In his well illustrated and closely reasoned Ph.D. dissertation (MacLeod 1964a) he expanded his investigations of the larval head capsule to encompass representatives of 15 neuropterid families. It succinctly summarized prior work on the larvae of each family and corrected many errors that had crept into the earlier literature. The major thesis of the dissertation was that the larval head capsules of neuropterous insects could be divided into two basic types, the hemerobioid (ancestral) and myrmeleontoid (derived). Ellis' work provided sound justification for a five-family concept of the Myrmeleontoidea (i.e., Psychopsidae, Nymphidae, Nemopteridae, Myrmeleontidae and Ascalaphidae). Particularly significant was his recognition that the Psychopsidae represented a relatively "primitive" member of the Myrmeleontoidea, a point not fully appreciated in the earlier work of Withycombe. Unfortunately, this dissertation, Ellis’ most important and enduring work, was never published, and its ideas have, consequently, been rather slow to enter the literature.
    During the early 1960’s MacLeod published several papers on the Hemerobiidae (MacLeod 1960b, 1960c, 1963, 1964b, 1964c), reflecting his master's degree work on this family. He also further developed his interest in the Berothidae, a group in which he held a special interest throughout his career, and published two important papers on the systematics of this family (MacLeod 1967b, MacLeod & Adams 1967). These were significant advances for their time, having been published during the long period between the early summarizing work of Navás in the 1920's and the more recent studies of the Aspöck's in the 1980's and 1990's. Also published around this time was his paper on myrmeleontoid fossils from Baltic amber (MacLeod 1970). Ellis’ interest in fossil neuropterans was undoubtedly stimulated by his interactions with his Ph.D. major professor at Harvard, the eminent American paleoentomologist Frank Carpenter.
    After moving to the University of Illinois in 1966, Ellis rekindled his old interest in the Chrysopidae (the subject of his first neuropterid publication -- Bickley & MacLeod 1956), and published in the early 1970's a series of works with Joseph Sheldon on various aspects of the biology of "Chrysopa carnea" (MacLeod & Sheldon 1972; Sheldon & MacLeod 1971, 1974a, 1974b). In the 1980’s, he collaborated with Kurt Redborg on a fascinating series of studies and papers on the biologies of several of mantispid species (MacLeod & Redborg 1982; Redborg & MacLeod 1983, 1984, 1985). Ellis' collaboration with both Sheldon and Redborg was related to their Ph.D. studies at the University of Illinois. The 1990’s saw the appearance of two papers published jointly with University of Illinois colleague Hugh Robertson (Robertson et al. 1992; Robertson & MacLeod 1993), which reported on the discovery of transposable elements in the DNA of Chrysoperla plorabunda.  Ellis' last paper (Eisner et al., 1996), perhaps fittingly, harked back to his roots both in the Chrysopidae and the source of so much of his inspiration – the fascinating biologies of neuropteran insects -- to report on the significance of liquid droplets found on the egg pedicles of Ceraeochrysa smithi. Ellis' first observations of such droplets were made more than 30 years earlier.
    The sum of Ellis' work is notable for its diversity. Although centered on the biology and systematics of the Neuroptera, Ellis was always interested in the unusual tangent. This led him into such studies as chrysopid genetics (MacLeod & Sheldon 1972; Robertson & MacLeod 1993) and chrysopid hearing (Miller & MacLeod 1966). The significance of Ellis' individual works depends upon ones perspective. For the systematist, his Ph.D. dissertation (MacLeod 1964a) is certainly of the greatest long-term importance, followed by his review of the Berothidae (MacLeod & Adams 1967) and his treatment of Baltic amber myrmeleontoids (MacLeod 1970). On the biological side, his Ph.D. dissertation is, again, perhaps his most important work because of its summarization of nearly all of the earlier work on neuropteran immature stages. Also of particular significance in the area of biology are his early work on the dilarid Nallachius (MacLeod & Spiegler 1961) and his work with Redborg on mantispid biology.
    As was well known to his colleagues, only a small fraction of what Ellis knew about lacewings, and in particular lacewing biology, was ever committed to paper. The reasons for this are several. After his move to the University of Illinois, he assumed, and carried throughout his career, a heavy teaching load that left relatively little time for research. The effect of this is observable in his publication record, which clearly shows a change from sole-authored to multi-authored papers after his move to Illinois. Furthermore, on the majority of his jointly-authored papers he was a junior author, emphasizing a transition from direct research to indirect research through his influence on graduate students and colleagues later in his career. But there was something else too. For Ellis, the fire of discovery was a flame not to be extinguished by the tedium of documentation. There was always one more additional fact that should be obtained, one more tangent to be explored, before one could possibly consider publishing on this topic or that. Ellis preferred more to explore biology than to write about it. Although this has now left us with a regrettable loss of written information, it was this same spirit of active curiosity that made Ellis a fascinating speaker and conversationalist, and it is this spirit that the students and colleagues who had the privilege to interact with him will remember and cherish.

John D. Oswald, Department of Entomology, Texas A&M University, College Station, TX 77843-2475, U.S.A.
Nathan M. Schiff, U.S.D.A. Forest Service, Southern Hardwoods Laboratory, P.O. Box 227, Stoneville, MS 38776, U.S.A.

Publications of Ellis G. MacLeod

Bickley, W. E.; MacLeod, E. G. 1956. A synopsis of the Nearctic Chrysopidae with a key to the genera (Neuroptera), Proceedings of the Entomological Society of Washington 58: 177-202.
Eisner, T.; Attygalle, A. B.; Conner, W. E.; Eisner, M.; MacLeod, E.; Meinwald, J. 1996. Chemical egg defense in a green lacewing (Ceraeochrysa smithi), Proceedings of the National Academy of Science 93: 3280-3283.
MacLeod, E. G. 1955. Records of Boloria toddi from Maryland, Lepidopterists' News 9: 54.
MacLeod, E. G. 1960a. Morphological studies on the head capsule of the larval stages of Boriomyia fidelis. Masters thesis. University of Maryland, College Park, Maryland, U.S.A. 69 pp.
MacLeod, E. G. 1960b. Sexual differences in the proportions of two-winged and four-winged individuals of Psectra diptera (Burmeister), together with five new records (Neuroptera: Hemerobiidae), Entomological News, Philadelphia 71: 231-236.
MacLeod, E. G. 1960c. The immature stages of Boriomyia fidelis (Banks) with taxonomic notes on the affinities of the genus Boriomyia (Neuroptera: Hemerobiidae), Psyche 67: 26-40.
MacLeod, E. G. 1963. A description of the male of Sympherobius arizonicus Banks (Neuroptera: Hemerobiidae), Psyche 70: 64-67.
MacLeod, E. G. 1964a. A comparative morphological study of the head capsule and cervix of larval Neuroptera (Insecta). Ph.D. Dissertation. Harvard University, Cambridge, Massachusetts, U.S.A.  [iii] + 528 pp.
MacLeod, E. G. 1964b. Comment on the proposed validation of Boriomyia Banks, 1905. Z.N.(S.). 1531, Bulletin of Zoological Nomenclature 21: 193-194.
MacLeod, E. G. 1964c. The presence of the genus Hemerobius in Hawaii with a note on the wing venation of Nesobiella hospes (Perkins) (Neuroptera: Hemerobiidae), Pacific Insects 6: 1-4.
MacLeod, E. G. 1967a. Experimental induction and elimination of adult diapause and autumnal coloration in Chrysopa carnea (Neuroptera), Journal of Insect Physiology 13: 1343-1349.
MacLeod, E. G. 1967b. Studies on the systematics of the Berothidae, Part I: A redescription of the genus Sphaeroberotha Navás, with a critique of the taxonomic characters used in the Berothinae (Neuroptera), Psyche 74: 342-352.
MacLeod, E. G. 1970. The Neuroptera of the Baltic Amber. I. Ascalaphidae, Nymphidae, and Psychopsidae, Psyche 77: 147-180.
MacLeod, E. G. 1972. The Biology of Insects: a laboratory manual for introductory entomology. Burgess Pub. Co.: Minneapolis. xi + 100 pp.
MacLeod, E. G.; Adams, P. A. 1967. A review of the taxonomy and morphology of the Berothidae, with the description of a new subfamily from Chile (Neuroptera), Psyche 74: 237-265.
MacLeod, E. G.; Redborg, K. E. 1982. Larval Platymantispine mantispids (Neuroptera: Planipennia): possibly a subfamily of generalist predators, Neuroptera International 2: 37-41.
MacLeod, E. G.; Sheldon, J. K. 1972. A dominant mutation modifying the structural eye color in Chrysopa carnea,  Journal of Heredity 63: 63-68.
MacLeod, E. G.; Spiegler, P. E. 1961. Notes on the larval habitat and developmental peculiarities of Nallachius americanus (McLachlan) (Neuroptera: Dilaridae), Proceedings of the Entomological Society of Washington 63: 281-286.
MacLeod, E. G.; Stange, L. A. 1981. The brown lacewings of Florida (Neuroptera: Hemerobiidae), Florida Department of Agriculture and Consumer Services, Division of Plant Industry, Entomology Circular 227: 1-4.
Miller, L. A.; MacLeod, E. G. 1966. Ultrasonic sensitivity: a tympanal receptor in the green lacewing Chrysopa carnea, Science, New York 154: 891-893.
Redborg, K. E.; MacLeod, E. G. 1983. Climaciella brunnea (Neuroptera: Mantispidae): a mantispid that obligately boards spiders,  Journal of Natural History 17: 63-73.
Redborg, K. E.; MacLeod, E. G. 1984. Maintenance feeding of first instar mantispid larvae (Neuroptera, Mantispidae) on spider (Arachnida, Aranea) hemolymph, Journal of Arachnology 11: 337-341.
Redborg, K. E.; MacLeod, E. G. 1985. The developmental ecology of Mantispa uhleri Banks (Neuroptera: Mantispidae), Illinois Biological Monographs 53: 1-130.
Robertson, H. M.; Lampe, D. J.; MacLeod, E. G. 1992. A mariner transposable element from a lacewing,  Nucleic Acids Research 20: 6409.
Robertson, H. M.; MacLeod, E. G. 1993. Five major subfamilies of mariner transposable elements in insects, including the Mediterranean fruit fly, and related arthropods, Insect Molecular Biology 2: 125-139.
Sheldon, J. K.; MacLeod, E. G. 1971. Studies on the biology of the Chrysopidae. II. The feeding behavior of the adult of Chrysopa carnea (Neuroptera), Psyche 78: 107-121.
Sheldon, J. K.; MacLeod, E. G. 1974a. Studies on the biology of the Chrysopidae. IV. A field and laboratory study of the seasonal cycle of Chrysopa carnea Stephens in Central Illinois (Neuroptera: Chrysopidae), Transactions of the American Entomological Society 100: 437-512.
Sheldon, J. K.; MacLeod, E. G. 1974b. Studies on the biology of the Chrysopidae. V. The developmental and reproductive maturation rates of Chrysopa carnea (Neuroptera, Chrysopidae), Entomological News, Philadelphia 85: 159-169.
 

Annual Conference, Association of Applied Insect Ecologists. 18 - 20 January 1998.
Contact Address: AAIE, 1008 10th Street, Suite 549, Sacramento, CA 95814, USA.
E-mail: PlainAAIE9@aol.com; Phone/fax: 1-916-441-5224; Website: http://www.AAIE.com

DOD Pest Management Workshop. 22 - 27 February 1998.
Contact Address: B. McKENNA, AFPMB, Forest Glen Sect., WRAMC, Washington, DC 20307-5001, USA.
E-mail: mckennrj@acq.osd.mil /Tel: (301) 295-7476 / Fax: (301) 295-7473.

Plant Herbivore Interactions (Gordon Research Conference). 22-27 February 1998.
Contact Address: D. BOWERS, Campus Box 334, Univ. of Colorado, Boulder, CO 80309, USA.
E-mail: bowers@spot.colorado.edu. Fax: 1-303-492-8699. Phone: 1-303-492-5530.

International Conference on Pesticide use in Developing Countries: Impact on Health and Environment.  23 February - 1 March 1998.
Contact Address: Y. ASTORGA, Univ. Nacional, Apdo. 86-3000, Heredia, Costa Rica.
E-mail: PPUNA@irazu.una.ac.cr, Web: http://www.una.ac.cr/ambi/ppuna, Phone: 506-277-358. Fax: 506-277-3583.

5th International Symposium on Trichogramma and other Egg Parasitoids and Quality Control of Mass Reared Arthropods. 2-7 March 1998.
Contact Address: S. HASSAN, BBA Institute, Heinrichstr. 243, D-64267 Darmstadt, GERMANY.
E-mail: S.Hassan.biocontrol.bba@t-online.de ; Fax: 49-6151-407290; Phone: 49-6151-407223.

Insecticide Resistance: From Mechanisms to Management. 8-9 April 1998.
Contact Address: The Royal Society, 6 Carlton House Terrace, London, UK.

50th International Symposium on Crop Protection. 5 May 1998.
Contact Address:
E-mail: sabine.drieghe@rug.ac.be, Tel: +32(0)92646012/10; Fax: +32(0)92646249.

6th Symposium on Biological Control. 24-28 May 1998.
Contact Address: P.J. Eventos, Feiras e Congressos, Rua Josi Risseto, 1023 Santa Felicidade 82015-010 Curitiba – Parana, Brasil.

VII International Congress of Ecology, 19-25 July 1998.
Contact Address: Lunigiana Museum of Natural History ,Fortezza della Brunella, 54011 Aulla, Italy.
E-mail: afarina@tamnet.it; www: http://www.tament.it/intecol.98, Tel: +39 187 400252; Fax: +39 187 420727.

6th European Congress of Entomology, 23-29 August 1998.
Contact Address: Dr T. SOLDAN, Institute of Entomology, AS CR, Branisovska 31, CZ-370 05 C. Budjovice, Czech Republic.
E-mail: soldan@entu.cas.cz , Tel: +42 38 40822; Fax: +42 38 43625.

Third International Forest Vegetation Management Conference. 24 - 28 August 1998.
Contact Address: E. HARVEY
E-mail: ifvmc3@NRCan.gc.ca / Tel. (705) 942-5824 / Fax (705) 942-8829.

8º Congresso Ibérico de Entomologia. 7 – 12 September 1998.
Contact Address: Centro de Ecologia Aplicada. Universidade de Evora. Apartado 94-7001 Evora codex. Portugal.
E-mail: cong@uevora.pt

Regional Symposium for Applied Biological Control in Mediterranean Countries. October 1998.
Contact Address: Prof. M. F. S. TAWFIK or Dr. S.A.EL ARNAOUTY, Center of Biological Control, Faculty of Agriculture, Cairo University, Giza (Republic of Egypt).
E-mail: lec@brainy1.ie-eg.com / Tel. & Fax: (202) 5695686.

American Phytopathological Soc. and Entomological Soc. of America Joint Meeting. 8-12 November 1998.
Contact Address: C.S. DACUS, APS, 3340 Pilot Knob Rd., St. Paul, MN 55121-2097, USA.
E-mail: corie@scisoc.org, Fax: 1-612-454-0766; Phone: 1-612-454-7250.

Brighton Crop Protection Conference 1998 - Pests and Diseases. 9-12 November 1998.
Contact Address: CASI Ltd., 4 New Cavendish Square, London W1M 0BX, UK., Fax: 44-0-171-629-3233 Phone: 44-0-171-499-0900.

SOME INTERNET NEUROPTEROLOGICAL INFORMATION:

NeuroWeb (The Neuropterists' Home Page):  http://entowww.tamu.edu/research/neuropterida/neuroweb.html
UMMZ neuroptera (University Michigan Museum Zoology): http://insects.ummz.lsa.umich.edu/Species_Lists/neuroptera.html
Pest Management Resource, Centre Global Contact Directory: http://www.pestmanagement.co.uk
The Neuroptera: http://www.ex.ac.uk/~gjlramel/neurop.html
Entomology Department at Cal Academy with Neuroptera References: gopher://CAS.calacademy.org:70/11/depts/ent
Antlion Pit: A Doodlebug Anthology: http://www.antlionpit.com/
Neuroptera-L (Discussion List): Neuroptera-L@cardiff.ac.uk