HuTTON. — Oil Neiv Zealand Neuroptera. 231 



Anterior wings sprinkled with black spots ; discal subapical 

 spot, and some other small ones near the apical margin, 

 whitish, margmed with black. Posterior wings paler, with 

 subobsolete black spots on the costal margins only ; no white 

 spots. Abdomen blackish. Length of the body, 16 mm. ; 

 expanse of wings, 32 mm. 



Locality. — New Zealand. 



Variable in colour. A specimen from Waitara has hardly 

 any yellow, but is pale-grey, and has more dark points in the 

 anterior wing. The white spots not margined with black. 

 {B. McL.) 



Stenosmylus latiusculus. 



Stenosmyhis latiusculus, McLachlan, Ent. Mo. Mag., ser. 2, 



vol. 5, p. 241 (1894). 



Head above and pronotum yellowish ; ocelli large but not 

 prominent, approximate ; antennae pale-brown, the two basal 

 joints and the base of the third joint yellow. Meso- and 

 meta-nota yellowish, clouded with fuscescent. Anterior legs 

 pale-yellow, the tips of the tibiae and tarsal joints brownish, 

 plantula brownish; posterior legs mostly fuscescent. Abdo- 

 men ( ? ) fuscous above, dull-yellowish beneath ; apex obtuse, 

 provided beneath with an ovipositor (?), which appears to 

 consist of two closely applied 2-jointed pieces, the second joint 

 directed backward from the first ; the posterior margin of the 

 7th ventral segment produced in its middle into a quadrate 

 valve, from within which a cylindrical process, broad at its 

 base, is directed between the basal joints of the above-de- 

 scribed apparatus. Wings long-oval, subacute at the apex, 

 with a very slight subapical excision, ground-colour pale-grey; 

 anterior wings with the neuration blackish and whitish irre- 

 gularly alternate, giving a faint irregular tesselated appear- 

 ance ; pterostigmatic region long but ill-defined, whitish- 

 testaceous ; posterior wings almost without markings. 

 Length of body, 13 mm.; of anterior wing, 26 mm.; its 

 greatest breadth, 9 mm. ; expanse of wings, 54 mm. 



Locality — Otira Gorge. 



Variety. — The head above and the pronotum more dusky, 

 and the black margins of the latter rather broader. Posterior 

 legs wholly yellowish. The anterior wings rather more 

 strongly marked. Smaller. Expanse of wings, ?45mm. 



Locality. — Greymouth (?). 



Genus Deepaneptbbyx, Leach (1835). 



Antennae rather shorter than the body, moniliform, the 



basal joint very robust ; maxillary palpi long and slender, 



labial palpi very short ; ocelli wantmg. Thorax broad. 



Wings broad ; anterior pair much dilated and rounded at the 



