34 NEUROPTERA OF NORTH AMERICA. 



TAENIOPTERYX PICTET. 



Wings a little involuted, veined, transverse veins very scarce, 

 rather regular; anal area of the posterior wings large, plicated ; 

 palpi filiform, the last article ovate ; no abdominal setae ; tarsi with 

 three long, equal articles. 



1. T. fasciata! 



Semblisfasciata Bunn.! II, 875, 6. Pict.! Perl. 359, 5, tab. xlvi, fig. 4, 5. 

 Walker, Catal. 179, 5. 



Black, with gray pile ; head hardly broader than the thorax, in 

 front and at the eyes rufous, tubercles flat, polished, anteriorly with 

 two parallel grooves; antennae fuscous, the basal articulation black; 

 prothorax broader behind, rugulose, sides oblique, posterior margin 

 rounded, anterior angles subacute, tubercles a little shining, near 

 the anterior margin a transverse, biarcuated sulcus, two closely 

 approximated, linear, parallel discoidal tubercles, at the posterior 

 margin a transverse sulcus ; feet yellowish-brown, femora exteriorly, 

 tibise at base and the tarsi blackish-brown ; abdomen black, shin- 

 ing, 9 appendix broad, yellow, triangular, beneath excavated, the 

 apex narrow, rounded, incurved; <g appendix yellow, lanceolate; 

 wings subhyaline, a gray transverse band upon the middle and 

 another at the apex; veins fuscous. 



Length to tip of wings 11 13 millim. Alar expanse 23 25 

 millim. 



Hab. Philadelphia, Pa. ; Washington, April (Osten Sacken). 



2. T. similis ! 

 Txniopteryx similis Hagen! 



Black, shining; head broader than the prothorax, shining, hardly 

 rufous anteriorly, antennae black ; prothorax short, broad, sides 

 oblique, posterior margin rounded, anterior angles rounded, poste- 

 rior ones acute, anterior margin subreflexed, very rugulose ; feet 

 brown, femora exteriorly and the tarsi blackish-brown ; abdomen 

 black, shining; the last ventral segment truncated; wings subhy- 

 aline, with three broad gray bands, the extreme one is apical, veins 

 fuscous. (Female.) 



Length to tip of wings 8 millim. Alar expanse 14 millim. 



Hab. Washington, May (Osten Sackeu). 



