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STUDIES IK AUSTRALIAN NEUROPTERA, IV , 



Genus Megalomina Banks. (Text-fig. 8). 



Bankfs, Proc. Ent. Soc. Washington, xi., 1909, p. 78. 



Wings rather broad, hmceolate. Forewiug with four radial 

 sectors, all simple except the most distal one, which lias two 

 posterior branches; three series of gradate cross- veins; costal 

 space nai-row at extreme base, and then broadening considerably; 

 recurrent costal veinlet present, but not conspicuously branched. 

 HindnHug with no true Cuj; Cuj strongly formed, sharply 

 branched at cuj": Rs Avith one false origin, Aery oblique and 

 elongated, and a second cross-vein slightly oblique; between the 

 two, Ks is curved concavely to R, and gives off sca eral branches; 

 five branches to Rs altogether; two gradate series. 



Genotype, M. acuminata Banks. 



Text-tig.S. — Wiiijis uf Mc'jKfoiiiiiia acuminatn Banks. 



9. ]Me(;al0xM1NA acuminata Banks. (Text-fig. 8). 



Banks( 1; p.78). Esben Peter.sen(ll; p.642, and PI. lxxi\ ., fig.9). 



This species appears to be very I'are. Banks' type came from 

 Bundaberg, (^). A second specimen is in Mr. Froggatt's collec- 

 tion (loc. Queensland), and is the one figured by Petersen. The 

 specimen, whose venation is figured in Text-fig. 8, was taken by 

 me at One-Tree Hill, Brisbane, on September 23rd, 1915, by 



