HuTTON. — On New Zealand Neuroptera. 243 



Genus Setodes, Eambur (1842). 



Antennas and maxillary palpi varying. Legs long and 

 slender, the anterior pair much shorter than the others ; 

 spurs of the tibice 0.2.2. Neuration of the wings similar in 

 both sexes. Anterior wings very long and narrow, lanceolate, 

 not dilated, almost always acute, clothed with dense pubes- 

 cence and with long fringes. Posterior wings still narrower 

 than the anterior, always acute, often subfalcate at the tips. 

 Abdomen slender. 



Distribution. — Europe. 



Setodes unicolor. 



Setodes unicolor, McLachlan, Journ. Linn. Soc, vol. 10, 



p. 203, pi. 2, fig. 7 (1870). 



Greyish-brown ; antennae greyish-ochreous. Anterior wings 

 greyish-yellow, with some brown dots. Posterior wings pale- 

 grey, subhyaline, iridescent. Legs greyish-ochreous. Ab- 

 domen greyish-ochreous, the last segment in the male with a 

 pale fringe of hairs ; superior appendages small, broad ; the 

 inferior pair approximated, elongato-triangular. Length of 

 the body, 5 mm. ; expanse of wings, 20-23 mm. 



Locality. — Christchurch. 



Genus Philakiscus, Walker (1852). 



Maxillary palpi with the fifth joint long and filiform. 

 Antennae nearly filiform, rather stout, almost as long as the 

 wings. Fore tibiae with two very short spurs at the apex ; 

 middle tibiae with a pair of long spurs at the apex ; hind 

 tibise with two pairs of long spurs, one at three-fourths of the 

 length, the other at the apex. 



Distribution. — New Zealand and New South Wales. 



The larvae are marine, and live among seaweed, in rock- 

 pools, between tide-marks. (See Journ. Linn. Soc, vol. 16, 

 p. 417 (1882); and Ent. Mo. Mag., vol. 18, p. 278; vol. 19, 

 p. 46; vol. 24, p. 154: also N.Z. Journ. of Science, vol. 1, 

 p. 307.) 



The position of this genus is doubtful. 



Philaniscus plebejus. 



Philaniscics plebejus, Walker, Gat. Neuroptera Brit. Mus., 

 p. 116 (1852). Anomalostoma alloneura, Brauer, Eeise der 

 "Novara," Neuroptera, p. 16, pi. 1., fig. 6 (1865). 



Dull-red, the sides of the thorax greyish. iVntennae thick, 

 pale-tawny, ringed with grey, the apices dark-grey ; clypeus 

 with golden hairs ; head with four narrow lines of red hairs. 

 Legs dull-red. Anterior wings grey, subhyaline, tessellated 

 with pale-chestnut, with a thin, yellow, woolly coating. Pos- 



