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lowish; feet green-white, tarsi yellowish; apex of the wings 

 rounded, the posterior ones with the apex a little acuminate. 



A variety has a reddish point each side of the head. (From 

 the description of Dr. Fitch.) 



Length to tip of wings 14 millim. Alar expanse 25 millim. 



Hob. New York, Illinois, September and October, common 

 (Asa Fitch). 



35. Ch. pseudographa. 



Chrysopa pseudographa Fitch, Report I, 89. 



Very much like the preceding, stramineous ; head yellow, face 

 each side with a small black line ; antennae, feet, and veins of the 

 wings whitish ; apex of the wings rounded ; abdomen with a nar- 

 row, dorsal, white line, and the segments each side with an apical, 

 yellowish spot. 



Var. Apex of the segments with a yellowish fascia. (From the 

 description of Dr. Fitch.) 



Length to tip of wings 14 millim. Alar expanse 25 millim. 



Hob. Northern Illinois, October (Asa Fitch). 



36. Ch. flava ! 



Hemerobius flavus Scopol. Ent. Cam. 270, 707. Chrysopa vittata "Wesm.! 

 Bullet. Acad. Brux. VIII, 211, 7 (partly) ; Schneid.! Monog. Cnrys. 

 65, 1, tab. vii. Chrysopa alba Brauer! Monog. No. 5; Burm.! 

 Handb. II, 981, 13. Chrysopa subfalcata Steph.! Illustr. VI, 105, 13. 



Entirely whitish-green ; basal article of the antennae thick, elon- 

 gated ; wings acuminate, the costal margin of the anterior ones 

 broadly emarginated ; veins white, a few of the transverse veins at 

 base a little blackish. 



Length to tip of wings 26 millim. Alar expanse 46 millim. 



Hal. Philadelphia (collection of Hagen) ; Europe ; Asia. 



37. Ch. innovata ! 



Chrysopa innovata Hagen ! 



Pale yellow ; maxillary palpi with an external black streak upon 

 the articles; face with a black streak and spot on both sides; 

 antennas pale yellow (partly destroyed), the first articles, long, 

 narrow, cylindrical, hardly thicker than the following ones; front 

 tuberculous between the antenna? ; vertex citron-colored ; protho- 

 rax subelongate, narrower anteriorly, each side anteriorly with a 

 black point; feet pale yellow, nails black; abdomen yellow; wings 



