208 EXOTIC NEUROPTERA. 



5. Wings with dark spots; femora and tibia of front legs mostly 



black 6. 



Wings without dark spots ; femora and tibia mostly pale ; stigma 

 dark on base, pale beyond 7. 



6. Fore-wing with basal spot, band, and stigmal spot ; hind-wings 



with basal band (fig. 23) iiotba. 



Fore-wing with long subcostal streak ; hind-wings unmarked. 



fuinella. 



7. First radial cell with four branches ; hind tibia with black spot 



above partlieiiiella. 



First radial cell with but two or three branches 8. 



8. Hind tibia with apical two-thirds black ; larger species. 



eurydella. 



Hind tibia with faint dark cloud : smaller species bella. 



Mantispa nioluccensis n. sp.— Similar to A. amabilis Gerst. 

 Yellowish, a dark mark on labrum, and a transverse mark on clypeus, 

 a vertical mark between the antennae, aud a dark cloud above an- 

 tennae ; antennae, except pale'basal joints, black, no annulus ; femur 

 1 brown in middle and at apex on both sides ; prothorax brownish, 

 with pale line through the middle ; thorax mostly dark, scutelli yel- 

 low ; abdomen brown, some of the segments narrowly pale above at 

 base; middle and hind legs pale yellow, tips of their tarsi brown. 

 Wings hyaline; venation black; stigma reddish, nearly as long as 

 width of wing, not enlarged ; first radial cell with one branch, second 

 and third with one or two, six costals Wings long and slender, cell 

 beyond stigma much longer on costa than behind, next cell longer 

 behind. Expanse 20 mm. 



Type. — cT. From Amboina, Moluccas (Muir). 

 Mantispa alicante n. sp.— Yellowish ; a rather broad vertical 

 stripe on the face, and a transverse mark on the clypeus brown ; ver- 

 tex with median black mark, and faint dark marks each side ; an- 

 tennae pale, about three joints beyond middle black, then three joints 

 yellowish, and the rest (about four joints) black ; pronotum long, at 

 the beginning of the narrow part is a faint swelling, but no tubercle, 

 the anterior part is nearly smooth, but the long posterior part is covered 

 with many minute, scabrous black points ; this long part at about one- 

 fourth before the end is wider than elsewhere ; rest of thorax with 

 broad black stripe each side, and pale through the middle. Abdomen 

 blackish, the segments pale on the sides ; venter pale. Legs pale yel- 

 lowish, a brown line under middle and hind femora, front tibia black- 

 ish within, paler on outer side, with three faint dark spots near spines; 

 about three tiny spines between the middle sized spines, the latter not 

 one-third the length of the long basal spine ; most of legs with minute 

 dark dots, quite prominent on the front coxa and femur. Wings hya- 



