banks: new NEUROPTEROlb INSECTS. 357 



Leptonema normalis, sp. nov. 



Ti-PE.— M. C. Z. 10,891. Kamerun: Ja River (Bitze). 



Pale yellowish, with j-ellowish hair; antennae more brownish; spurs brown- 

 ish. Wings with fine yellowish hair, unmarked. Maxillary pali)i long, 

 second joint one and one half times third, fourth nearly as long as second. 

 Wings have the subcosta running into radius in both pairs, other venation 

 very similar to L. occidentale, but the median cell is shorter, and the cross-vein 

 behind this is nearer to base of the fourth fork than to base of median cell; 

 in hind wings the vein between third and fifth forks arises from a transverse 

 cross-vein. 



Expanse 25-26 mm. 



Differs from L. occidentale in much paler color and the ending of 

 subcosta in fore wings. 



Hydropsyche longipalpis, sp. nov. 



Type.— M. C. Z. 10,894. Madagascar: Tananarive (Chulliat). 



Pale brown, clothed with yellowish or golden hair; antennae pale, above with 

 tips and bases of joints broadly dark; legs pale, tarsi more reddish; fore wings 

 densely clothed with short, fine golden hair, without marks; hind wings 

 infuscated near tip. Palpi extremely long, the fifth joint much longer than 

 the others together, fully as long as the middle tibia; venation of typical 

 Hydropsj'che ; discal cell nearly twice as long as broad, more than one half as 

 long as median cell; fu-st fork with a pedicel one half its length, third fork 

 with a short pedicel; in hind wings first fork verj' small, but distinct, second 

 fork reaches back ahnost to cross-vein liack of discal cell, third fork shorter 

 than the second. 



Ex-panse 24 mm. 



Hydropsychodes pallida, sp. nov. 



Type.— M. C. Z. 10,897. Madagascar: Tananarive (Chulliat). 



Yellowish brown, clothed with yellowish hair; antennae pale, scarcely 

 annulate with dark at tips of the joints; wings pale yellowish gray, with 

 yellow hair and some black hair in places, but not forming markings except 

 on apical part where there are several black spots on the costa faintly con- 

 tinued back for a short distance as bands. Palpi moderately long, fifth joint 

 as long as others together; wings with topical Hydropsyche venation, except 

 that there is no first fork in hind wings. In the fore wings the first fork has a 



