May, '08] ENTOMOLOGICAL NEWS. 203 



A new genus and species of Neuroptera. 

 BY NATHAN BANKS. 



Recently Dr. J. B. Smith in sending some New Jersey ma- 

 terial, included a few forms from California. Among the 

 latter is a specimen of a Hemerobiid belonging to a new genus 

 and species. As I have lately revised our species of this family 

 it is with much interest that I add this striking form to our 



fauna. 



CHARGES n. gen. 



Body thick and heavy as in Polystoechotes, head rather small, 

 no ocelli ; antennae broken, scarcely the diameter of basal seg- 

 ment apart, and closer to the small eyes ; pronotum about three 

 times as broad as long, a little broader behind than in front, 

 abdomen rather short and stout. Legs slender, tibial spurs dis- 

 tinct, no spines, but many hairs and bristles, apical tarsal joint 

 as long as basal, others much shorter. Wings moderately 

 slender ; in the fore wings the radius and sub-costa do not unite 

 near tip, although they come very close together; beyond the 

 stigmal region the radius is bent downward and emits several 

 forked branches from its upper side to the margin of wing; 

 the lower branch of the median vein, soon after its origin, 

 unites with the cubital ; the latter gives off a number of branch- 

 es to the margin ; cross-veins quite numerous, but not in ser- 

 ies ; at costal base is a recurrent vein ; the radial sector arises 

 near base of wing, but has only four branches ; the costal cross- 

 veins are outwardly oblique. The hind wings are veined much 

 like the fore pair, but the lower branch of the medius does not 

 run into the cubital vein, but parallel to it, and soon forks ; 

 cross-veins hardly as numerous as in the fore pair; and radial 

 sector with five branches. 



In many respects this is similar to Polystoechotes, but differs 

 at once by the subcosta not joining the radius, by the much 

 fewer branches of the radial sector, irregular cross-veins, and 

 in forewings by the union of lower branch of median vein to 

 the cubital. 



Oliarces clara n. sp. 



Head and body dark brown, mouth and antennae paler; pronotum 

 clothed with long dark hair; legs dull yellowish, very hairy; abdomen 



