640 AUSTRALIAN NEUROPTERA, i., 



smaller. The crossveins in the outer gradate series, in the 

 forewing, greyish-brown. The tip of the upper branches of 

 some of the marginal forks in the posterior-apical part of fore- 

 and hind wing blackish. The forewings with rounded tip, 

 twice and one-half as long as broad. 



Length of forewing and hindwing, 19-20 mm. 



Brisbane, 25.v.l912(H. Hacker leg. ; one specimen, imma- 

 ture) ; Coll. Tillyard. — Middle Queensland (one specimen, 

 mature), in Coll. Petersen. 



CHRYSOPID^. 



Newman, Zoologist xi., App. CC.(1853). 



NOTHOCHRYSA. 



MacLachlan, Trans. Ent. Soc. Lond., p. 195(1868). 



NOTHOCHRYSA FROGGATTI, Sp. nOV, (PI. Ixxiii., fig.5). 



Head reddish-yellow ; palpi yellow. Antennae at least as 

 long as the forewing, brown with narrow yellow annulations, 

 becoming yellowish towards the apex ; basal joint reddish-yel- 

 low, very stout; 2nd and 3rd joints much smaller, reddish- 

 yellow, the third with a small brown transverse streak dorsally 

 at its base. Prothorax at least twice as broad as long; front 

 angles cut off, reddish-yellow with two broad lateral purplish 

 streaks ; each of them encloses two small yellowish spots, one 

 in the middle, the other nearer the base. Meso- and meta- 

 thorax yellowish, with two narrow oblique purplish streaks at 

 each side. Abdomen yellowish, dorsally at each side with a 

 longitudinal, oblique, purplish streak often abrupted, on the 

 front half of each segment and behind with a more or less 

 distinct purplish spot. Venter of body and legs pale yellow ; 

 claws dark brown with a broad, blunt dent basally. Wings 

 hyaline, all the nervures reddish-brown except costa, sub- 

 costa, radius and partly the cubitus. Pterostigma yellowish. 

 Forewing 29 mm. ; hindwing 26 mm. 



Solomon Islands, July-August, 1909 (W W. Froggatt leg. , 

 one female) ; Coll. Froggatt. 



[Printed oft, 17th November, 1914.] 



