366 AUSTRALIAN SEUROPTERA, 



the inner edge, clothed with long fine hairs, shortest at extremi- 

 ties. Eyes small, composed of six rounded facets, projecting 

 beside the base of the jaws. Antennae standing out straight 

 above eyes, consisting of a short cylindrical basal joint and a long 

 filiform appendage. Thoracic neck finely granulated with little 

 star-like spots; prothorax in front produced into two lobes pro- 

 jecting on either side of the head, together with the rest of 

 the thorax forming a shield- shaped plate. Abdomen narrow at 

 base, elongate-oval, with a short pointed tubercule standing out 

 in centre of each segment. The whole of the dorsal surface 

 clothed with fine downy hairs, longest on the sides, with a fringe 

 of fine linger-like appendages, longest behind the head, shortest 

 at the tip of the abdomen, each fringed with fine hairs so that 

 they look like feathers. Ventral surface pale ochreous, flattened, 

 clothed with fine hairs, thickest on the abdominal segment. 

 Legs long, slender, hairy; tarsi stout, claws large. 



PoRiSMUS STRiGATUs, Burm. 



Osinylus strigatus, Burm., Handb. Ent. ii. 984; Ramb., Hist. 

 Nat. Ins. Neurop. 415 : Chrysopa macuUpennis, White, Eyre's 

 Travels, Vol. i. Appendix, p. 432, pi. iv., fig. 2. 



This insect has a wide range over New South Wales and 

 Queensland, and in the early summer is not uncommon in the 

 neighbourhood of Sydney. I once took about two dozen at rest, 

 like a number of moths, upon the trunk of a large-white gum-tree. 



Length of body h', expanse of wings 1^ inches. 



Head red; palpi and antenna black, the latter composed of 

 about 75 joints, the first broad and oblong, the others small, 

 round and clothed with short spiny bristles; upper surface of 

 thoracic and abdominal segments black; undersurface and legs 

 brown, except the fore pair, which are yellow. Wings rich 

 ])lackish-brown with bright metallic reflections; forewings mottled 

 and barred with pale yellow forming a row of four transverse 

 bars on the base, with smaller parallel lines, and several spots and 

 two curved lines at the apex ; hindwings with the basal half 

 and extreme tip yellow. 



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