South African Neuroptera. 



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shaded with brownish ; these shaded cross-veins form together with 

 a dark spot at the apical end of the pterostigma a short, dark, 

 irregular, abrupt streak. On the hind margin of the forewing small 

 dark streaks. The membrane hyaline with inconspicuous greyish- 

 brown shadows, but at the hind angle there is sometimes present a 

 quite blackish-brown oblong spot, with all the veins enclosed in it 

 blackish. This conspicuous spot is often broken up in smaller spots 

 or is sometimes quite absent. The second cross-vein between M and 

 Cu blackish and dark-shaded. From this dark spot a faintly brownish 

 oblique streak is sometimes produced, following the three basal cross- 

 veins in the inner gradate series and ending at the basal end of the 

 pterostigma. Hiudwing hyaline ; all the veins yellowish except three 



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FIG. 1. Fore- and hinclwing of Micromus capensis. 



or four of the cross-veins in the outer gradate series ; these cross-veins 

 together with a streak at their junction with the longitudinal veins 

 blackish brown. 



Length of forewing 7'5-8'5 mm. ; of hindwing 6-7 mm. 



Two specimens, M'fongosi, Zululand, April, 1911 (W. E. Jones leg.) ; 

 one specimen, Cape Col., S.W. Distr. ; one specimen, Cape Town, 

 March, 1891 ; one specimen, Cape Town, April, 1885 (Dr. L. Peringuey 

 leg.) ; one specimen, Cape Town ; one specimen, 1887 (Dr. L. 

 Peringuey leg.). 



CHRYSOPIDAE. 



With regard to the terms here used concerning the nervation in the 

 wings of the Clirysopidae I refer to my work, " Results of Dr. E. 



