NEUROPTERA 59 



(25) Anonialochrysa ornatipennis Blackb. 



Anomalochrysa ornatipennis Blackburn, Ann. Nat. Hist. xiv. (1884), p. 419. 

 Hab. Mauna Loa, Hawaii (4000 ft.) ; \ % (Blackburn). 



(26) AnoinalocJirysa hepatica M'^Lachl. 



Anomalochrysa hepatica M'^Lachlan, Ann. Nat. Hist. xii. (1883), p. 299. 



(Plate HI. fig. 10 and Plate IV. fig. 17.) 



Hab. Haleakala, Maui (4000 — 5000 ft.). Not rare. 



(27) Anonialoclirysa proteus, sp. nov. 



An extremely variable species, entirely yellow, green, or liver-coloured, or reddish, 

 often particoloured, the thorax at least being usually more or less yellow or green in 

 some parts. 



Wings normally hyaline, colourless or nearly so, sometimes however suffused with 

 pale brown, and sometimes with few or many intracellular blotches of a brown colour. 

 In these spotted examples the wings tend (as has been noticed in regard to other 

 species) to become white and opaque. 



In the anterior wings of the ^ the gradate nervules divide off 5 rows of cellules, 

 sometimes a sixth is partly formed, rarely there are only 4 complete, and a fifth indicated 

 by a few cells. The cellules of the middle rows are generally more or less irregular 

 and confused. In the % there are 4 rows and indications of a fifth, but the wing in this 

 sex sometimes has the nervuration as complicated as in the t, although in general 

 there seems to be a tendency to a diminution of the number of cellules. 



Posterior wings with 4 rows in the same parts, sometimes more or less of a fifth 

 in the ^ ; in the % 4, with one more or less incomplete, sometimes only 3. 



The nervuration in general is pale, yellow or green, but some of the nervules are 

 more or less dark, at least those of the gradate series. The third cubital cellule has its 

 inferior apical angle not at all, or only a little produced, and the dividing nervule is 

 equal, or nearly equal, to the apical side of the cellule. 



Abdomen in the ^ somewhat densely clothed with pubescence, which is generally 

 black or dark, and is always directed towards the base of the abdomen, the hairs being 

 suberect. The apical dorsal plate is strongly dilated and its ventral valve glabrous or 

 nearly so. The % in life probably somewhat resembles the t in the character of the 

 abdominal pubescence, as appears from the better preserved examples, but as a rule the 



