NEUROPTERA 57 



(21) Anomalochrysa raphidioides, sp. nov. 



Head, legs and antennae usually red in the %, the antennae and head sometimes 

 nearly black ; in the ^ the antennae and legs are paler, yellowish, and sometimes also 

 the head. Thorax and abdomen nearly black in the ?, and sometimes nearly as dark 

 in the ^, but probably usually paler, the apical dorsal plate yellow. 



Wings with very distinct and conspicuous nervuration, in the % nearly entirely dark 

 brown in colour, in the t paler, although many of the nervules are quite dark. The 

 anterior wings are suffused with brown, very conspicuously in the $, in the t less deeply, 

 the colour paler (more yellow). The posterior wings are at least for the greater part 

 hyaline and finely iridescent. All the pterostigmata in the % are dark brown or 

 reddish brown, and extremely conspicuous, but much less so in the t, and pale in 

 colour. 



Prothorax attenuate in front, and conspicuously elongate. 



Anterior wings very narrow in the $, much wider in the ^, the gradate nervules 

 form three longitudinal rows of cellules, but the second is often partially divided to 

 form a few cellules of an additional row, and rarely this row is complete. In the 

 posterior wings, which in the % are not much narrower than the anterior, there are three 

 distinct rows, which are usually complete or very nearly so. 



The apical dorsal plate of the $ is conspicuously dilated, its pubescence pale, some- 

 what short and inconspicuous. The ventral plate, which is applied to the dorsal, has 

 only very short and inconspicuous hairs. Apex of the abdomen of % reddish. (Plate 

 III. fig. 8.) 



Expanse 31 — 2,"] mm. 



Hab. Kona district of Hawaii, on Mauna Loa and Hualalai, at elevations of 

 4000 ft. and upwards. I have taken about a dozen examples of this very distinct 

 species, three only being males. 



(22) Anomalochrysa retictdata, sp. nov. 



Dark brown, head more or less red, thorax paler in parts which are probably 

 greenish or yellowish in life ; when immature, entirely pale, testaceous, no doubt green 

 or yellow in life. Having seen but two mature, and one immature example I cannot 

 judge of the variation. 



Wings hyaline and iridescent, scarcely infuscate, pterostigmata olivaceous, nervu- 

 ration for the most part dark in both pairs of wings, and very clear and distinct 

 throughout. In the anterior wings the gradate nervules form three complete rows of 

 cellules, and in each of the three examples examined another row between the second 

 and third is represented by 3 cellules. The third cubital cellule is scarcely produced at 

 its apical and inferior angle. 



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