364 AUSTRALIAN NEUROPTERA, 



with lighter brown, the whole of the dorsal surface clothed with 

 fine, flattened, rosette-like tufts, with finer feather-like ones upon 

 the ventral surface, and the outer margins of the thoracic and 

 abdominal segments armed with spiny processes. Head deeply 

 arcuate in centre, with the side at the base of each mandible 

 swelling out and rounded to the back of the head, which is 

 flattened on the summit and arcuate behind. ^Mandibles very 

 large, curving round to the pointed extremities, with the outer 

 edge of the basal portion clothed with spiny tubercles, the inner 

 edges furnished with three stout spines, the anterior one largest, 

 the spaces between them covered with short blunt spines. Eyes 

 forming a rounded space containing six separate lenses covered 

 with spiny tubercles. Prothorax forming a regular neck enclosed 

 by the base of the head; dorsulum and mesonotum forming short 

 narrow folds behind. Abdomen swelling out on sides, tapering 

 at apex to a slender pointed tip. Legs long, stout, covered with 

 fine spines; tarsi long, furnished with stout claws. 



8uPHALASCA FLAViPES, Leach. 



Ascalaphus Jlavipes, Leach, Zool. Misc. i. 48, pi. xx,: Walk., 

 Brit. Mus. Cat. Neurop, 420, 1853: Bubo Jlavipes, Ramb., Hist. 

 Nat. Ins. Neurop. 357, 1842; Suphalasca Jlavipes, Lefebvre, Mag. 

 Zool. 1842. 



This insect is about the same size as the preceding species, but 

 differs in having the head and thorax yellow marked with brown, 

 and the thick tuft of hair clothing the front of the head black 

 instead of grey, though below and above it is grey. The legs are 

 bright yellow except the base of the thighs and the tarsi, which 

 are black. The wings are marked with a bright yellow blotch 

 that looks like a true stigma at the extremity of each wing, 

 running into the termination of the parallel nervures. 



Leach and Walker give the locality as New Holland. My 

 .specimens were taken at Bathurst, N.S.W., clinging to a slender 

 branch of a scrub tree, with the wings folded down the 1)ack. 



