2 ARKIV FÖR ZOOLOGI. BAND 10. NIO 15. 



I. Palparini. 



In the Palparini the Rs in the hindwing arises so far out 

 that there is at least two crossveins before its origin, and 

 where the tip of C1I2 in the hindwing unites with 1 A by a 

 short crossvein, this crossvein continues as a curved and 

 recurrent nervure, running almost paralle] with Cu^, until it 

 reaches the first sector from Cn^, with which it unites. Se- 

 veral longitudinal nervures arise from the recurrent vein, 

 their numbers are more or less different in the different spe- 

 cies. Between M and Cu^ in the forewing is found an oblique 

 crossvein 1 somewhat further out than the cubital fork. This 

 oblique crossvein is very distinct, and I name it the »oblique 

 vein». Ciiy in the forewing is curved, and it runs directly 

 into the hind margin. From Ci^o several longitudinal ner- 

 vures are running towards the posterior margin. Between 

 the first of these nervures and the first of the sectors from 

 Cu^ runs a longitudinal, intercalary vein, which very of ten 

 has the likeness of a branch of the sector from Cu^ or of a 

 sector proper, but as a rule it furcates further out and nearer 

 the margin than the sectors. The Palparid-genus Valignanus 

 Navas (Memorias Real Acad. Cienc. Artes, Barcelona, pag. 

 494, 1913) which was founded for the Indian species scotti 

 Navas (loc. cit.) especially on the presence of a curved and 

 recurrent vein from the Gu^ in the forewing, is probably 

 only a synonym of Symathetes Mac Lachlan (Journ. Linn. 

 Soc. IX, p. 237, 1867), but at present I cannot decide it, 

 because I lack sufficient material. The character is a good 

 generic one, and it is found in Symathetes contrarius Walker 

 from India, in Cramhomorphus grandidieri Weele from Ma- 

 dagascar, in Palpares sp. Weele (Bull. Scient. France et 

 Belgique, p. 263, Pl. IX, fig. 8, 1907) from Madagascar and 

 in other species. 



The most valuable attempt to clear up the great con- 

 fusion in the synonomy concerning the African species of 

 the Palparini is made by N. Banks in »Ann. Ent. Soc. Amer., 

 Vol. VI, p. 171—190, 1913», and when he says, »I am quite 

 certain that a still greater number should also be placed as 



^ This crossvein is found in the forewing only, and as far as I know 

 in all the Myrmeleonidae. I think its place in relation to the cubital fork 

 and to other main-nervures may be of some systematical value. 



