158 NEUROPTERA. 
G. ambigua. Mr. Kirby, however, has kindly informed me that the male type of 
sordida in the British Museum has no notch at the hind margin of the tenth abdo- 
minal segment, as these males have (see key, p. 154). See also Supplement, posted. 
5. Gomphoides obscura. 
Cyclophylla obscura, Kirby, Ann. & Mag. Nat. Hist. (7) ili. p. 369, t. xv. fig. 4 (entire insect) (1899)’. 
Hab, PANAMA 1 
Unknown to me. Apparently the single female on which the description is based 
is immature, and similar to producta, but smaller. Mr. Kirby writes (Sept. 24,1904) : 
“Certainly not ambigua. ‘There are several characters to separate them besides 
coloration. One is that the inner side of the pterostigma and the nervule descending 
from it are remarkably oblique in ambiqua.” Lack of material prevented Mr. Kirby 
from making a comparison with producta. 
6. Gomphoides suasa. (Tab. VII. figg. 19, 20.) 
Gomphoides suasa, Selys, Bull. Acad. Belg. (2) vii. p. 545 [19] (1859) '; (2) xxviii. p. 191 [28] 
(1869) ?; (2) xxxvi. p. 503 [59] (1878) °; Hagen, Syn. Neur. N. Am. p. 112 (1861) °*; 
Calvert, Proc. Calif. Acad. Sci. (3), Zool. i. p. 3884 (1899) °. 
Gomphoides perfida, Hagen, |. c. p. 112 (1861) °. 
Hab. Mexico, Tampico (de Saussure?*), Tepic®, Atoyac (Schumann: 1 3 with 
abd. seg. 8-10 lost, 2 @) in Vera Cruz (Sallé!), Tepetlapa and Tierra Colorada in 
Guerrero (H. H. Smith: 2 9); Costa Rica, Escazu (C.F. Underwood: 1 3). 
The superior appendages of the Escazu male differ slightly from the most detailed 
description ®, as our figure shows. Mention has already been made (p. 153, antea) 
of the dilated or foliaceous lateral margins of abdominal segments 8 and 9 of the 
female, whose width on 8 is about ‘6 mm. 
The Tepic, Guerrero, and Escazu examples were taken in October. 
Race pacifica. 
Gomphoides pacifica, Selys, Bull. Acad. Belg. (2) xxxvi. p. 504 [60] (1873)? ; Calvert, Proc. 
Calif. Acad. Sci. (3), Zool. i. p. 8384 (1899) *. 
Hab. Mrxico, Tepic?, Guadalajara (Schumann: 4 2), Puente de Ixtla in Morelos 
(coll. Deam: 1 2), Dos Arroyos in Guerrero (H. H. Smith: 1 @ ), “ Putla sur la céte 
du Pacifique” }. | 
Taken in July (Guadalajara, P. de Ixtla), September (Dos Arroyos), and October 
(Tepic). 
In describing this species, de Selys followed its name with “(Race de suasa 2)” }, 
and in the list of species in the same work (p. 525) did not give it specific rank, but 
