Netu or Little Knoion Species of the HemerohiidcB. 449 



narrow fuscous patch; the tarsal spurs are short, barely reaching 

 the median part of the basal tarsal joint. Antennge wanting. 



Length of body 30 mm., of wings expanded 61 mm. 



Hah. Damaraland (J. Hodson). 



Creagris mashunus, n. sp. 



Drab colour mixed with cinereous ; wings hyaline with the 

 nervures and nervules partly white and partly fuscous, pterostigma 

 small, fuscous and lacteous, one small sub-vertical fuscous streak on 

 the middle of the hind border of the fore wings, and a narrow, elon- 

 gated but not very distinct one on the hind border of the posterior at 

 a short distance from the apex ; the tessellation of the nervures and 

 nervules is more pronounced in the apical part especially of the fore 

 wings and along the forked nervures of the hind margin ; these wings 

 are narrow, especially the hind ones, acuminate but hardly sinuate 

 on the lower margin of the apex ; epistome pale fiavescent, vertex 

 highly raised transversely, and with two parallel series of black 

 macules transversely disposed ; pronotum very plainly constricted 

 laterally, fuscous, variegated with ashy grey and sub-rufescent 

 macules somewhat indistinct ; meso- and metasternums fuscous and 

 variegated in the same manner ; abdomen fuscous with a sub- 

 rufescent patch in the middle of the dorsal part of each segment; 

 legs rufescent, femora specked with fuscous ; spurs nearly as long 

 as the basal tarsal joint. 



Length of body 22 mm., of wings expanded 52 mm. 



Hah. Southern Rhodesia (Salisbury), G. A. K. Marshall. 



Family ASCALAPHIDES. 



Gen. NEPHONEUEA, McLachl. 



Nephoneura mashunense, n. sp. 



2 . Head rufo-brunnescent, epistome rufescent, whole head 

 clothed with very long and very dense hairs which are partly black, 

 and in the centre partly sub-flavescent ; prothorax very densely 

 hairy especially on the sides, pale brown, slightly variegated with 

 ashy spots or patches, the mesosternal part black, the sides of the 

 sternum bear a broad cretaceous longitudinal band on each side ; 

 abdomen light brown, each segment with two velvety vertical black 

 patches on the dorsal part, and with two narrow bands, one apical, 

 one basal, and also several small macules on the ventral; wings 



