208 AUSTRALIAN NEUROPTERA, ill,, 



a few blackish bristles. Tibiae pale l)rown, with blackish bands 

 and spots, especially the intermediate fore-ones, and with long 

 white and black bristles, the hind tibia? only with black ones 

 Tarsi blackish, once and one-half shorter than the tibial. Fifth 

 tarsal joint the longest, as long as fourth and third united: 

 second joint a little longer than third, and first a little longer 

 than second. 



Wings with rather obtuse and rounded apex. Nervature in 

 the forewing whitish, dark brownish-banded: most of the cross- 

 veins brownish-shaded, especially three in the radial area. In 

 the subcostal area, in front of the three last-named cross-veins, 

 a short dark streak; nearer to the base of the same area, a longer 

 dark streak. Pterostigma blackish; a blackish streak near the 

 tip of M and Cuj and on the hind-margin where 1 A and Cuo 

 unite. Many of the veins along the hind-margin with small 

 dark dots. Most of the nervures in the hindwings blackish, 

 especially in the front and apical part. Pterostigma, a small 

 spot nearer to the apex of the wing, and a larger one, opposite 

 to the pterostigma, blackish: the latter with a dark shadow 

 extending to the hind-margin of the wing. 



Length of forewing, 17-18 mm.; of hindwing, 14-15 mm. 



Brewarrina, N.S.W.; one female specimen (type), 1914 (W. 

 W. Froggatt leg.). Coll. Froggatt. Narromine, i^.S.W.; one 

 specimen [abdomen and antennae lost], 1905 (W. W. Froggatt 

 leg.); Coll. Esben-Petersen. 



Allopormicalkon. 

 Esben-Petersen, Proc. Linn. Soc. N. S. Wales, 1915, •p,G9. 



Alloformicaleon canifrons. (Plate xi., fig.4). 



Formicaleo canifrons Navas, Revista d. 1. Real Acad. d. Cienc, 

 Madrid, p.473, fig 5, 1914. 



This species was described from a specimen (Mus. Vienna) 

 with no other statement of locality than Australia. The face of 

 the insect is covered with a dense whitish pilosity, and, in the 

 hindwing, it has two cross-veins before the origin of Rs. 



