264 NEUROPTERA OF NORTH AMERICA. 



ANABOLIA STEPHENS. 

 Spurs 1, 3, 4; apex of the anterior wings elliptical. 



1. A. sordida! 



Anabolia sordida Hagen ! 



Rufo-fuscous, with black hair; antennae fuscous ; head and thorax 

 at disk rufous ; feet rufo-fuscous, with black spines, the tibiae ob- 

 scurer exteriorly; anterior wings soiled-luteous, densely pointed 

 with fuscous, almost naked, finely rugulose, thyridium pale ; ele- 

 vated veins snaooth, fuscous, the apex partly interrupted with 

 luteous ; posterior wings fusco-hyaline. 



Male. Superior anal appendages long, laminated, the apex a 

 little oblique; the inferior appendages acute, a little shorter, 

 oblique. 



Length to tip of wings 18 millim. Alar expanse 35 millim. 



Hob. N. Red River; Northern Illinois (Kennicott). 



2. A. punctatissima, 



Hallesus punctatissimus Walk. ! Catal. 17, 16. 



Testaceous, broad ; antennae stout; anterior wings broad, finely 

 rugulose, closely freckled with whitish, the anterior margin almost 

 whitish; a spot upon the middle, and the thyridium whitish ; pos- 

 terior wings whitish. (From the description of Walker.) 



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



Hob. Nova Scotia (Redman). 



3. A. consocia. 



Limncphilus consocius Walk. ! Catal. 33, 47. 



Ferruginous, with pale hair ; base of the antennae black ; thorax 

 with a broad black stripe ; abdomen black above ; feet testaceous ; 

 anterior wings testaceous, closely irrorated with whitish, the spots 

 often confluent; veins fuscous; posterior wings subhyaliue. (From 

 the description of Walker.) 



Length to tip of wings 14 millim. Alar expanse 26 millim. 



Hob. North America. 



It is allied to Stathmophorus striatus Kolenati. 



