66 AUSTRALIAN NEUROPTERA, ii., 



nervures mostly yellowish; the greatest number of crossveins in 

 the fore wings strongly sooty-brown shaded. 



Length of forewing, 35 mm.; of hind wing, 35 mm. 



Colo Yale, N.S.W.; one female; 20.iv.l900; W. W. Froggatt 

 leg. (Coll. Froggatt). 



PROTOPLECTRON. 



Gerstaecker, Mitt.naturw. Yer.f. Neuvorp.u.Riigen,p.l5(1884). 



Banks, Ann. Ent. Soc. Am., iii., p.40(1910). 



Type : P. venustum Gerst. 



Tibia short and stout, two-thirds the length of the stout and 

 short femur; tarsus long and slender, longer than tibia. Basal 

 joint of tarsus the longest, longer than second-fourth united, 

 which, united, are of the same length as fifth. Spurs as long as 

 first joint. 



In the forewing, Cug and lA run parallel to Cuj for some dis- 

 tance. Some of the crossveins in the costal area of forewing 

 united (two series of cells); the bent branches of radial sector in 

 forewing form, or tend to form, a straight line through the middle 

 of the apical part of the wing. In the hindwing, several rows of 

 cells between Cuj and hind margin. 



Table of Species. 



All nervures yellowish pallidum Bks. 



The iier wires more or less marked with black venustum Gerst. 



Protoplectron venustum. (Plate ix., fig. 15.) 



Gerstaecker, Mitt.naturw. Ver.f.Neuvorp.u. Riigen,p. 16(1884). 



Face below yellowish; jDalpi more or less brownish. A blackish 

 cross-band below the eyes; vertex blackish-browu, with ill-defined 

 pale brown markings. Prothorax longer than broad, reddish- 

 brown, with an indistinct pale median line, and a pale longi- 

 tudinal streak at each side, lateral margins blackish. Abdomen 

 blackish-brown. Femora and tibiae brown and long-haired; hind 

 tibiae yellowish, with black apex, and a narrow blackish band 

 near base. Tarsi blackish. Wings with whitish membrane, 

 pale, blackish-banded nervures, and many more or less brownish- 

 shaded crossveins. 



Length of forewing, 26 mm.; of hindwing, 25 mm. 



New South Wales; one specimen; 14.x. 1905; W. W. Froggatt 

 leg.(Coll. Froggatt). 



