246 NEUROPTERA OF NORTH AMERICA. 



BITTACUS LATREILLE. 



Ocelli three; wings narrow; antennae setaceous, very slender ; 

 abdomen rather long, cylindrical, feet longer than the wings, the 

 apex of the tibiae calcarated; tarsi with a single, long, simple nail. 



1. B. mexicanus. 



Bittacus ntexicanus King! Act. Berol. 1836, 99, 6. Walk. Catal. 466, 6. 



Testaceous ; head with a middle spot, and apices of the femora 

 and tibias with a vestige, fuscous ; antennas almost unclothed; wings 

 subflavescent, veins and transverse marks obscurer ; appendages 

 of the male long, narrow, incurved. (From the description of 

 King.) 



Alar expanse 46 millim. 



Nab. Mexico (Deppe). 



2. B. pilicornis ! 



Bittacus pilicornis Westw. Trans. Ent. Soc. Lond. IV, 196, 4. Walk. 

 Catal. 468, 15. 



Pale fusco-luteous, shining ; head fuscous between the ocelli ; 

 antennas luteo-fuscous, with long and dense pile ; wings sublutes- 

 cent, transverse veins obsoletely banded with fuscous ; superior 

 appendages of the male broad, triangular, flat. 



Alar expanse 40 millim. 



Hub. Trenton Falls (Osten Sacken); La Chine near Montreal 

 (Barnston). 



3. B. strigosus! 

 Bittacus strigosus Hagen ! 



Pale testaceous, shining ; head black around the ocelli ; palpi 

 black ; antennas pale, sparingly and shortly pilose ; apex of the 

 femora and tibiae blackish-fuscous; wings hyaline, with some basal, 

 fuscous points, transverse veins broadly banded with fuscous ; 

 pterostigma a little clouded ; superior appendages of the male 

 broad, oblong, the superior margin broadly excised, pilose. 



Alar expanse 40 millim. 



Hub. Chicago ; Washington ; St. Louis (Osten Sacken). 



