HuTTON. — On Ncio Zealand Neuroptera. 241 



black and white. Length of the body 10 mm. ; expanse of 

 the wings, 36 mm. 



Locality. —Auckland and Christchurch. 



Pseudonema amabilis. 



Tctracentron amahile, McLachlau, Journ. Linn. Soc, vol. 10., 



p. 20, pi. 2, fig. 5 (1870). 



Brown, with grey hairs ; antennae brown, with narrow 

 white rings. Anterior wings elongate, narrow, obliquely 

 truncated near the apex, pale-grey, sprinkled and clouded 

 with brown. Posterior wings broader, subhyaline, with 

 greyish-yellow pubescence. Legs pale-grey, tarsi and an- 

 terior tibiae brownish. Abdomen brown, the superior ap- 

 pendages in the male triangular, fimbriated ; the inferior 

 appendages thick, directed upwards. Length of the body, 

 10 mm. ; expanse of the wings, 26-28 mm. 



Locality. — Christchurch. 



Genus Notanatolica, McLachlan (1866). 



Antennae very fine, nearly thrice the length of the wing, 

 longer in the male than in the female, maxillary palpi very 

 hairy, the first and fourth joints moderately long, nearly 

 equal ; the second, third, and fifth equal, each about thrice 

 the length of the fourth. Anterior wings long and narrow, 

 shghtly hairy, costal and dorsal margins nearly parallel, 

 discoidal cell closed ; upper branch of the superior cubitus 

 forked in the male, twice forked in the female. '■■ Posterior 

 wings broad, subtriangular, shorter than the anterior. Legs 

 long ; spurs 2.2.2, each tibia being provided with two small 

 and equal apical spurs. Abdomen robust, depressed in the 

 female. x\ual appendages well developed in the male, the 

 inferior pair biarticulate ; m the female the ' apex of the ab- 

 domen is obtuse, with two rounded superior valves. 



Distribution. — Australasia and the Malay Archipelago. 



Notanatolica cognata. 



Leptocerus cognatus, McLachlan, Trans. Ent. Soc. London, 

 ser. 3, vol. 1, p. 6 (1862). Notanatolica cognata, McLach- 

 lan, Z.c, vol. 5, p. 258 (1866); Journ. Linn. Soc, vol. 10, 

 pi. 2, fig. 6. 



Antennge dark-brown, with white tips to the joints; basal 

 joint testaceous; palpi black, clothed with long grey hairs. 

 Head and thorax testaceous. Abdomen brown. Legs pale 

 greyish-ochreous. Anterior wings grey, sparingly clothed 

 with heavy pubescence. Posterior wings hyaline, with cop- 



* For the neuration of Notaiiatolica, see Trans. Ent. Soc. London, 

 ser. 3, vol. 5, pi. 19, fig. 3. 

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