HuTTON. — On Nciu Zealand Neuroptera. 223 



blackish, almost double the length of the tenth segment, 

 villose, cylindrical and straight in their first three-quarters, 

 the apex expanding and forming a sort of club curved suddenly 

 outwards almost at a right angle to the inner edge, the outer 

 edge simply inclined, the extremity blunt, almost truncate. 

 Seen in profile the upper side has a small point directed in 

 front. Inferior appendages shorter, yellowish, subtriangular, 

 slightly curved upwards, with a blunt point. Length of the 

 abdomen, 39 mm. ; of the hind wing, 33 mm. 



Female unknown. 



Locality. — New Zealand. 



Somatochlora braueri. 



Epitheca braueri, de Selys, Synopsis Cordulines, p. 50 (1871). 



Male. — Head brown, rhinarium yellow, upper side of the 

 front greenish, base of the eyes yellowish-brown. Thorax 

 brown, the upper portions and sides bronzy-green. Wings 

 tinged, slightly ochraceous at the extreme base; the posterior 

 with the anal margin excavated, merabranule large, blackish, 

 paler at the base ; pterostigma small, reddish-brown; triangles 

 divided in all the wings ; 8 ante-nodal nervules in the fore 

 wings and 6 in the hind ; 7 or 8 post-nodals. Legs brown, 

 the tarsi blackish. Abdomen slender, brown, with bronzy 

 reflections, with a sinuated dorsal blackish bronzy band, not 

 well defined, prolonged over all the segments, the articula- 

 tions blackish ; oreillettes scarcely evident. Superior anal 

 appendages subcylindrical, dark-brown, double the length of 

 the tenth segment, without any tooth, slightly bent inwardly 

 and curved outwardly in the second half, where there is a 

 slight dilatation outwardly, the apex blunt. Inferior append- 

 age one-quarter shorter, regularly attenuated, the extremity 

 slender, truncated, slightly elevated. Length of the abdomen, 

 40 mm. ; of the hind wings, 36 mm. 



Female differs from the inale in having a broad spot of 

 yellowish-white below the pterostigma ; 7 or 8 ante-nodals in 

 the fore wing and 5 or 6 in ihe hind, 6 or 7 post-nodals in the 

 fore wing and 8 or 9 in the hind (the right and left wings often 

 different). Legs black, the proximal halves of the femora 

 brown below. Anal appendages as in S. smithii. Length, 

 50mm.; of abdomen, 36 mm.; of fore wing, 37 mm.; of hind 

 wing, 36 mm. 



Locality. — Canterbury. 



Tribe ^SCHNINA. 



Eyes large and contiguous. Apices of the triangles of all 

 the wings directed outwards ; the quadrangle with transverse 

 nervules. 



