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15. — Description of a Neiu or Little Knoion Species of the Hemero- 

 hiidcB {Order Neuroptera) from South Africa, luith Plates VII.-IX. 

 — By L. Peringuey, D.Sc, F.E.S., Director. 



Sub-Family MYEMELEONIDES. 



Gen. PALPAEES, Eamb. 

 Palpares cataracts, n. sp. 

 Plate VII., fig. 3. 



Head with the whole anterior face pale flavous, whole vertex dark 

 drab or deep fuscous, antennae wholly black ; thorax very robust, 

 width equal to three-fourths of the length, very dark fuscous, nearly 

 black but with four sub-flavescent macules on the mesonotum, and 

 the metanotum more distinctly variegated with yellow; the head 

 is nearly glabrous, but the thorax is clothed with a black erect 

 pubescence turning to flavescent white on the sides and metanotum ; 

 abdomen very long in the ^ , but shorter than the fore wings, even 

 with the clasps included in the total length, and very little more than 

 half the length in the female, flavescent on the centre of the upper 

 side only, otherwise fuscous ; genital clasps of the usual curved 

 shape, and as long as the ultimate abdominal segment ; legs very 

 bristly and also pubescent, tibial spurs somewhat divaricating and 

 slightly curving downwards ; if straight they would reach as far as 

 the third joint. 



Wings hyaline with fuscous spots, macules, and bands ; they are 

 narrower in the male than in the female, with the posterior edge 

 plainly sinuate, about two-thirds of the length, and the basal callus 

 of the median costa is strongly developed and flavescent. In the 

 anterior wings the costal area is regularly spotted with fuscous for 

 more than half the length, maculated thence to the pterostigma 

 which is very little distinct ; the basal part of the area is irregularly 

 maculated with fuscous, all the nervules are narrowly infuscate, and 

 there are four much interrupted fuscous cross bands ; a supra-basal 

 broadly interrupted in the centre in the ^ , bi-interrupted in the ? ; 



