HuTTON. — On Neio Zealand Neuroptera. 217 



area acute in front and with relatively scanty neuration in the 

 narrow axillar regioii. Median caudal seta rudimentary. 

 Distribution. — Australia and North America. 



Coloburiscus humeralis. 



Palingenia humeraUs, Walker, Gat. Neuroptera in Brit. Mus., 



p. 552 (1853) ; and Baetis remota, Walker, I.e., p. 564 



(1853). Colohtirus humeraUs, Eaton, Trans. Ent. Soc. 



London, 1871, p. 132, pi. 3, fig. 1, and pi. 6, fig. 6 ; and 



Trans. Linn. Soc, ZooL, vol. iii., p. 202, pi. 18, fig. 32a. 



Imago. — Brown. Wings vitreous, tinged at the base and 



in the pterostigmatic region with light-brown ; cross-nervules 



of the fore wing edged with brown between the cubitus 



and pobrachial nervures in the first one-third of their length, 



and between the costa and the sector in the first half. Fore 



legs dark-brown, the hind legs yellowish-brown. Length of 



the body, 11mm. ; of the wing, <? 13 mm., ? 14-16 mm. ; of 



the setaB, $ 15-20 and 2 mm., $ 15 and 1 mm. 



Suhimago. — Wings very light-grey, with darker narrow 

 borders to the nervules in the greater part of the disk. 

 Length of the setae, 14 and 1 mm. 

 Locality. — Canterbury and Otago. 



Genus CHmoTONBTES, Eaton (1881). 



Imago. — Legs all functional ; hind tibia shorter than the 

 femur but longer than the tarsus ; ungues similar, narrow and 

 hooked. Costal dilatation of the hind wing obtuse, axillar 

 region largely developed and with abundant neuration, of 

 which a large"^ portion is composed of numerous long branch- 

 lets of the hindermost axillar nervure. Median caudal seta 

 rudimentary or aborted. 



Distribution. — Europe, North America, and Sumatra. 



Chirotonetes (?) ornatus. 



Ghirotonetes (?) ornatus, Eaton, Trans. Linn. Soc, 2nd series, 

 Zoology, vol. iii., pp. 270 and 321, pi. 19, fig. 33c (1888). 

 Imago. — Thorax dark-brown in the male, yellowish-brown 

 in the female. Abdomen reddish-brown, with a dark triangular 

 spot behind on each side of every intermediate segment, before 

 the apex of which is an ochreous space. Wings vitreous ; the 

 fore wings faintly yellowish in the first portions of the mar- 

 ginal and submarginal areas, and tinged with brownish-black 

 in the pterostigmatic region, where the nervules are dark- 

 bordered. Fore legs brown, the hind legs yellowish, with 

 dark bands on the middle and tip of each femora, the tips of 

 the tibiae, and the joints of the tarsi. Length, 14-15 mm. ; 

 wings, 12-16 mm. ; setae, 16 and 1 mm. 



