638 AUSTRALIAN NEUROPTERA, i., 



Antennae dark brown; the two basal joints reddish-brown. 

 Thorax yellowish, with a broad dark brown longitudinal 

 median streak. Abdomen reddish-brown above, testaceous 

 below. Sides, venter of thorax, and legs yellowish with a faint 

 reddish tinge. Wings hyaline along the tip and apical half 

 part of posterior margin with a brownish tinge. Pterostigma 

 slightly yellowish-marked. Longitudinal nervures blackish- 

 brown except costa, radiiis, basal half of cubitus, and in the 

 hindwings the anal veins, which are yellowish. All crossveins 

 blackish, very narrowly margined with brown in the basal 

 part of the forewing. At the tip of subcosta a brownish spot, 

 largest in the hindwing. 



Length of forewing 30 mm.; of hindwing 27 mm. 



Cairns, Queensland, 20.x.l909(W. W. Froggatt leg.); one 

 specimen; Coll. Froggatt. 



This species especially differs from N. fuscum Gerst.,(Pl. 

 Ixxii., fig. 3) by the hyaline membrane of the wings; and from 

 N. diaphanum Gerst., and .¥. pallidum Bks., by the darker 

 nervation of the wings. 



APOCHRYSID^. 

 Handlirsch, Die foss. Ins. u. Phyl. rezent. Formen, p. 1251 

 (1908). 



Apochrysa. 

 Schneider, Symb. Mon. Gen. Chrysopae, p. 157(1851). 



Apochrysa phantoma. 



Gerstaecker, Mitth. nat. Ver. Neuvorp. u. Riigen, xxv., p. 153 

 (1893). 



In Coll. Froggatt, a fine specimen from Aru Islands, 1911 

 (W. W. Froggatt leg.). The specimen agrees in every point 

 with the description of Gerstaecker ; his type-specimen was col- 

 lected in New Guinea. 



Whether Apochr. phantoma Gerst., is only a variety of 

 Apochr. aurifera Walk., from Ceylon, as v.d. Weele supposes 

 (Notes Leyd. Mus., xxxi., p. 84, 1909), I do not propose to dis- 



