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7. Two Species of Bittacidae (Neuropterob) from South Africa. By 

 P. ESBEN-PETERSEN. With 4 Text-figs. 



AMONGST a few specimens of Bittacidae belonging to the South 

 African Museum and forwarded to me for determination by the 

 Director, Dr. Peringuey, I found a new and undescribed species, 

 together with a single specimen of a species hitherto only known from 

 the type-specimen in the British Museum. I give here a description 

 of both species. 



BlTTACUS SELYSI, 11. sp. 



Head yellowish-brown. Rostrum yellowish-brown with a black 

 longitudinal streak at each side and below the eye ; at the base of 

 rostrum a narrow and slightly indicated dark median streak. Labial 

 and maxillary palpi yellowish-brown, the apical joint of the former 

 with a broad dark baud. Above the antennae a black spot, enclosing 

 the dark and shining ocelli. Antennae yellowish-brown and slender. 

 Thorax yellowish-brown. Abdomen yellowish-brown with a short, 

 fine and yellowish pubescence, and with a few blackish bristles along 

 the margins at base ; the two apical joints dark brown with paler hind 

 margins. In the male the upper anal appendages rather long and 

 sharply pointed ; the apex itself provided with two or three strong 

 spines ; the lower margin (seen from side) with a triangular projec- 

 tion. Legs yellowish-brown. Femur, tibia and tarsal joints with a 

 blackish band at the tip. Third and fourth tarsal joints of the hind 

 feet together with the claw of the same almost black. Wings broadened 

 towards the apex, which is rounded. Membrane shining and with a 

 rather deep yellowish-brown tinge. The nervature brown and the 

 apical cross-veins faintly brownish shaded ; the apical border rather 

 strongly brownish shaded. The pterostigma pentagonal, 1^ times as 

 long as broad, brownish coloured. In the wings is found a cross-vein 

 between Sc and R in the forewing nearer to the fork of Rs than to 

 the origin of the sector itself ; in the hind wing nearer to the origin of 

 the sector. A cross-vein is found between Cu l and Cu 2 almost below 

 the forks of Rs and M. No cross- vein between Cu 2 and \A. Rs forks 

 a little before M, the difference greatest in the hindwing. At the 



