184 NEUROPTERA. 
12], Denver‘ in Colorado [E. V. Beales: 192] (coll. P. P.C.), Fort Harker in Kansas 
[Cope Coll.: 1 2], Beulah 5 [H. Skinner: 1 3] (A. N.S.) and Pecos River’ in New 
Mexico, Winslow and Williams in Arizona ®, Napa Co. and Palo Alto (Kellogg MS.), 
Keeler, Owens Valley (H. F. Wickham, A. N. S.: 1 2), Wilson’s Lake, Pasadena 
[F. Grinnell, Jr.: 2 3], Los Angeles+ [A. Davidson: 1 ¢] (coll. P. P. C.), Ontario 
(Kellogg MS.), Claremont (coll. C. F. Baker: 1 9), and San Diego (Jf. C. Z.) all in 
California ; Lower Carirornra, San José del Cabo 4 (G. Eisen, coll. P. P. C.: 3 3).— 
Mexico (Uhde®) (U. 8. N. M.: 1 3,12), Mexico city (H. H. Smith: 1 9; Schu- 
mann: 1 36; Barrett, coll. P. P. C.: 1 8), Tacubaya (id.: 2 6), Cuernavaca (coll. 
Adams: 14), Santa Maria in Puebla (Barrett, coll. P. P. C.: 16), Jalapa (7. D. G.: 
33,12), Cordova (Saussure 1), Amula in Guerrero (H. H. Smith: 4.3); GuatEMa.a, 
San Gerdnimo, 3000 feet (Champion: 13); Costa Rica, Irazu 6000-7000 feet 
(Rogers: 2 2); Panama, Volcan de Chiriqui below 4000 feet (Champion: 2 ¢ ). 
The dates of capture range from April to October in different localities. 
The two great gaps in the geographical distribution of this species, each of 700 miles 
(1100 kilometres), to the north and to the south respectively of San José del Cabo, are 
doubtless due to insufficient exploration and collecting. 
After comparing the female type (which has no label indicating locality) of 
44. mutata, Hagen ®, in the Museum of Comparative Zoology, at Cambridge, in June, 
1899, with the other North-American species, I recorded in my notes that “it is 
probably the same as multicolor.” This opinion has been strengthened bya note from 
Mr. Samuel Henshaw, who wrote (10. x. 1904) :—‘ The type of Hschna mutata has a 
tubercle on the ventral surface of the first abdominal segment.” Dr. Anton Handlirsch 
has also written me from the Vienna Museum (25. x. 1904): * Von Aschna mutata, 
Hagen, besitzen wir keine Type. 2 Exemplare in unserer Sammlung sind von Brauer 
bestimmt und haben einen flachen, nicht scharf umschriebenen Hocker auf ‘das 
Ventralplatte des 1. Segmentes ; die Oberflache dieses Héckers zeigt kurze braunliche 
Dornchen.” 
One of the above-cited males from Pasadena, California, was sent to the Berlin 
Museum, and Dr. H. Griinberg has kindly replied as follows (26. xi. 1904): “Ich 
habe die Art mit 4. furcifera, Karsch, verglichen und bin der Ansicht dass beide Arten 
synonym sind .,. der kleine bezahnte Hocker am 1. Abd. Segment ist bei beiden Arten 
gleich gebaut.” 
8. Aishna dugesi, sp.n. (Tab. VIII. figg. 11, 12.) 
3. Almost identical with multicolor, except for the superior appendages whose differences are given in the 
table on page 180. The “sharply angulate inferior carina” formed by the inner margin is unquestionably 
homologous with the strong inferior spine of multicolor, and the first impression produced on me in 
examining the first male was that it was a multicolor the spine and decurved tip of whose superior 
appendages had been broken off. A careful examination shows this not to be the case. 
