60 NEUROPTERA. 
1. Paraphlebia zoe. 
Paraphlebia zoe, Selys, in Hagen, Syn. Neur. N. Amer. p. 72 (1861)*; Selys, Bull. Acad. Belg. (2) 
xiv. p. 8 (1862)?; Mém. Couron. Acad. Belg. Xxxviii. p. 33 (1886) °. 
¢. Labrum metallic blue, labium black, nasus pale brown, a yellow spot on either gena, but the face is dark 
brown in the older Misantla male; “ quatre petites taches rousses au vertex,” mentioned by Selys ’, 
hardly distinguishable; hind margin of the occiput with a yellow line. 
Thoracic dorsum obscure in the younger, dark metallic green in the older individuals ; mesepimeron similarly 
coloured, metepisternum and metepimeron blackish ; the three yellow lines on the sides of the thorax are 
situated at the first and second lateral sutures and along the inferior margin of the metepimeron respec- 
tively ; they decrease in width with age, being stripes in younger males. 
Abdomen shining dark brown, segments 3-7 with a transverse basal yellow ring; the youngest male has a 
similar ring on 8 and a pair of dorsal basal yellow streaks on 9, but these are wanting in the other Xico 
individual. 
Superior appendages longer than segment 9, two to three times longer than 10; viewed from above directed 
straight backward in their basal two-fifths, at which point they are bent toward each other for the 
remainder of their length ; they diminish in thickness from base to point of angulation ; their convergent 
portion bears an infero-internal ridge which terminates abruptly a short distance before the apex of the 
appendage. Inferior appendages rudimentary. One (or slightly more or less) antenodal cell on all the 
wings of both sexes. 
2. Differs from the ¢ as follows :—The yellow spot on the two genz connected by a yellow band across the 
frons; a large part of the thoracic dorsum invaded by pale reddish; dark areas reduced in size on 
the sides of the thorax and absent from the metepimeron; segments 8 and 9 with a pale mid-dorsal 
stripe, larger on the latter, 10 with a pair of pale dorsal spots ; appendages conical, acute, black, slightly 
longer than 10. Tips of the wings beyond the pterostigma smoky. 
Hab. Mexico, Cuesta de Misantla(Trujit/o: 1 3, last four abdom. segments lacking), 
Xico (Barrett, coll. P. P. C.: 28,192), Vera Cruz ?. 
Hitherto only one individual, an imperfect male, of this species has been described. 
2. Paraphlebia quinta, sp.n. (Tab. V. fig. 1.) 
The resemblances to P. zoe are so great that, since the chief differences are given in the synopsis at the head of 
the genus, only a few minor details need be given here. 
&. Nasus black, its free margin pale in one 3, pale spot on either gena quite small. Yellow humeral line 
interrupted in several places, second and third yellow lines on the sides reduced in length or width. 
Transverse basal ring on segments 3-7 represented by a yellow spot on either side; no pale marks 
on 8-10. Superior appendages equal in length to 9. 
9 ? An individual marked as having been taken with one of the males of this species has been mended and 
now bears a male abdomen. Its wings are uncoloured, except for an ill-defined pale brown cloud on the 
front wings beyond the pterostigma, with merely a trace of yellow in the same place on the hind wings. 
These facts suggest that it is a female, yet I must confess that the basal portion of the abdomen seems to 
belong to the thorax to which it is attached. ‘The pale spots on either gena are connected by a pale band 
across the frons. The yellow humeral line has entirely disappeared. 
Hab. Guavemata, Panima in Vera Paz (Champion: 7 6, 19%). 
The specific name refers to the black apical fifth of the wings of the male. 
3. Paraphlebia duodecima, sp. n. (Tab. V. fig. 2.) 
This species also greatly resembles P. ze, except for those points of difference given in the synopsis at the 
head of this genus. Only a few minor details therefore are mentioned here. 
