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AUSTRALIAN NEUROPTER A. Part iii. 



Bv Esben-Petersen, Silkeborg. 



(Plates x.-xv.) 



(Communicated by W. W. Froggatt, F.L.S.) 



The materia] dealt with herein, with the exception of a few 

 specimens, belongs to Mr. W. W. Froggatt, Government Ento 

 mologist of New South Wales. His success in finding interest- 

 ing material of this Order is very gratifying; and I w-ould here 

 express my best thanks to him for liis kindness in allowing me 

 to examine it. 



MYRMELEONID^. 



In his two papers, " Studies in Australian Neuroptera," Nos. 

 i.-ii. (these Proceedings, 1915 and 1916), Mr. R. J. Tillyard gives 

 a number of very valuable contributions to the knowledge of the 

 Neuroptera, especially as to the Australian fauna. I was much 

 surprised to see the fine result, his study of the wing-tracheation, 

 in the pupal stage of the Myrmeleonidse, has brought forth; and 

 I agree very well with the conclusions he arrives at, and the 

 proposals he makes. But I should like to supplement his remarks 

 on certain structures in the venation. I propose to name the 

 area between Cu^ (more correctly termed Mo + Cuj), Cuo and the 

 hind-margin of the wing the " Intercubital area"; and the line, 

 formed in the same manner as the Banksian line, and often 

 present in the area named, the " Intercubital line." With 

 regard to the systematic part of Tillyard's work, I may say that 

 it much advances the study of the Australian Myrmeleonidae. 

 I have only a single objection to make His Tribe Protoplectrini 

 is the same as the Navasian Tribe Creagrini, and, therefore, the 

 Navasian Tribus-name ought to have priority, being the older. 



