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3. Descriptions of Four Neiv Species of South African Hemerobiidae 

 (Order Neuroptera). By L. PERINGUEY, D.Sc., F.E.S., Director. 



SUB-FAMILY MYEMELEONIDES. 



GEN. PALPARES, Eamb. 



PALPARES .EMQLUS, n. sp. 



Text-fig. 1. 



$ $ . Antennae black, slightly shorter than the thorax. Head 

 bright yellow with a black central macule on the vertex ; a thick 

 bunch of black hairs at the base of the antennae ; face without black 

 patch ; palpi fuscous in the anterior part ; thorax one-third longer 

 than broad, clothed all over with long flavescent greyish hairs, 

 yellow with three broad parallel black bands on the upper side ; 

 under side black ; wings dilated at about or a little beyond the 

 middle, but slightly sharper at tip in the $ , with the hind, sub- 

 apical margin only very slightly sinuate, hyaline but with a flavous 

 tinge, and the nervures and nervules yellow where not splashed 

 with fuscous black, pterostigma yellow, costal margin and also sub- 

 costal with very regular, sub-quadrate fuscous spots ; at about the 

 median part runs another row of similar tessellation, which, begin- 

 ning at the base, does not, however, reach beyond two-thirds of the 

 length of the wing ; the lower half of the wing is sprinkled with 

 numerous, somewhat irregular fuscous dots, more seriated along the 

 hind margin from the base to the apex where there is also a short 

 horizontal band consisting of four or five agglomerated macules ; in 

 the hind-wings is a regular series of spots in the costal margin only, 

 and an agglomeration of five or six such macules after the ptero- 

 stigma, three large fuscous patches on the disk, a sub-quadrate one 

 at about the middle of the disk, an irregular, horizontal one between 

 the middle and the apex surmounted by a smaller, sub-oblong above 



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