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well with the description given by MacLachlan except with regard to 

 the five pairs of dark streaks on the Sc and E in the hindwing; 

 these streaks are very inconspicuous. The fuscous, rounded and 

 raised spot on the hind margin of the forewing very distinct, It seems 

 to be a very scarce insect. Another ? example from Durban, Natal 

 (Gr. Leigh). 



HEMEROBIIDAE. 



GEN. HEMEKOBIUS, Lin. 

 HEMEROBIUS ERRANS. 



Navas, Voyage Alluaud et Jeannel en Afrique Orientale, Insectes 

 Nevroptcres, p. 31, 1914 (Brit, East Afr.). 



One specimen, Cape Town ; two specimens, Smithfield, Orange Free 

 State (Kannemeyer leg.) ; one specimen (without label). 



The specimens agree very well with the description given by Navas. 



GEN. MICEOMUS, Eamb. 



MlCROMUS TIMIDUS. 



Hagen, Peters Eeisenach Mossambique, Insecteu, p. 91, taf. v, fig. 1, 

 1862 (Mozambique). 



One specimen, Cape Town ; one specimen, Stellenbosch, 1887 

 (Dr. L. Peringuey leg.). 



MlCROMUS CAPENSIS, 11. Sp. (Fig. 1.) 



Head yellowish to brownish yellow. Vertex with four large irregular 

 brown spots. Palpi brownish yellow. Antennae brownish yellow. 

 Thorax brownish yellow with large irregular brownish spots laterally. 

 Abdomen brownish yellow with irregular dark markings. Legs 

 yellowish ; front and intermediate tibiae with a brownish spot a 

 little above the middle externally and another brown spot near tip 

 externally ; tip of tarsi pale brown. Wings with obtuse apex. Ptero- 

 stigma brownish yellow in the forewing, somewhat darker in the 

 hiudwing. Longitudinal veins yellowish with short inconspicuous 

 dark streaks. Costal area in the forewing rather narrow ; the first 

 6-8 cross-veins simple and unforked ; the rest forked. A row of small 

 brown spots along C. Four radial sectors ; their origin blackish. 

 Four cross-veins in inner gradate series and eight in outer series ; one 

 or two in the inner series sometimes blackish, and three or four in 

 the outer series nearest tip of the wing, also blackish and narrowly 



