South African Neuroptera. 



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with pale auuulations at the joints. Basal joint brownish red above, 

 yellowish below. Prothorax broader than long, front angles rounded, 

 disc yellowish with irregular brownish red markings and dark hairs. 

 Meso- and metathorax with blackish brown spots. Abdomen reddish 

 brown dorsally, yellowish ventrally. Legs yellowish ; femora with a 

 reddish brown streak near their apex dorsally ; tibiae with a reddish 

 brown band near base and another close to their apex ; tarsi pale 

 brownish ; claws brown and slightly widened basally. Wings broad 

 and with rounded apex. A brown spot close to the base of C in both 

 pairs of the wings. JSTervature yellowish. Pterostigma yellowish green 

 and rather conspicuous. The longitudinal veins with brownish black 

 streaks at the junction with the cross-veins. Rs blackish at its origin. 



FIG. 3. Fore- and hinchving of Chrysopa venosella. 



All the cross-veins and all the veins along the hind and apical margin 

 brownish black at their ends. In the forewing the cross-veins and the 

 marginal veins are mostly blackish brown, and only a narrow band in 

 their middle part is yellowish. The following cross-veins in the fore- 

 wing are totally blackish : the three basal cross-veins between Rs and 

 Psm ; the cross-vein from the furcation of J/to Cu ; the two cross-veins 

 between CK-^ and Cu 2 (the apical one is also strongly brownish shaded 

 at its lower end), and all the cross-veins in the gradate series ; in the 

 inner series they are also narrowly brownish shaded. In the forewing 

 18-21 costal cross-veins ; 9 cross-veins between R and Rs ; 3 cross-veins 

 between Rs and Psm ; the basal cross-vein joins M within the basal 

 median cell ; 6 cross-veins between Psm and Pscu ; 10 branches from 

 Pscu to the hind margin (the two apical ones are forked). In the 



