70 AUSTRALIAN NEUROPTERA, ii., 



hind border; fourth, fifth, and sixth segments yellowish above, 

 with a broad dark brown transverse band in their hind part; 

 seventh and eighth dark brown, with yellowish hind border; 

 ninth yellow. Venter of abdomen brown, with yellowish annula- 

 tions at the joints. Legs yellowish, strongly blackish-haired; 

 fore and intermediate tibiae anteriorly with some blackish spots; 

 tarsi yellowish, the points with blackish tips. Spurs reddish, 

 and nearly as long as first to third joints united. Wings long 

 and narrow. Longitudinal nervures yellowish-white, blackish- 

 banded. Several crossveins blackish and faintly blackish-brown 

 shaded. 



Fore- and hindwings, 30 mm. in length. 



Sydney; two specimens; W. W. Froggatt leg. Type in Coll. 

 Froggatt; cotype in Coll. Petersen. 



Dendrolkon. 



Brauer, Novara-Expedition, Neuroptera, p. 42(1 866). 



Antennae long and slender. Legs long and slender. Tarsus 

 two-thirds the length of tibia. First tarsal joint longer than 

 second, or third, or fourth, shorter than fifth; second, third, and 

 fourth of the same length, each of them twice longer than broad. 

 Spurs slender, nearly as long as first and second joints united. 

 Wings long and rather narrow; costal crossveins simple, a few 

 forked before pterostigma. Cu forks much beyond origin of 

 radial sector; lA and Cug united before the margin. The bent 

 branches of radial sector form a straight line through the middle 

 of the apical part of the wing. Three or four crossveins before 

 origin of radial sector in forewing, one in hiudwing. 



Dendroleon longipennis, sp.nov. (Plate xi., fig.20.) 

 Face yellowish. Maxillary palpi yellowish; fifth and base of 

 third joint brownish. A broad blackish-brown streak between 

 the eyes, enclosing the insertion of the antennae. Vertex raised, 

 reddish-brown, with two brownish-black, irregular, transverse 

 streaks abrupted in the middle. Prothorax longer than broad, 

 greyish-brown, blackish-haired; front angles rounded, and with 

 yellowish border; two irregular pale longitudinal streaks, not 

 reaching the front border, and a slight indication of a pale and 



