Neio or Little Knoivn Species of the Hemcrohiidce, 451 



hyaline ; sides of sternum maculated with flavescent ; legs yellow, 

 hind tibiae without any spur. 



Length of body 20 mm., of fore wings expanded 44 mm. of hind 

 wings 35 mm. 



Hab. Cape Colony (Cape District), L. P^ringuey. 



Sub-Family NEMOPTEEIDES. 



Gen. NEMOPTEEA, Latr. 



Nemopteba pubcelli, n. sp. 

 Plate IX., fig. 13. 



^ . Head, thorax, and abdomen bright drab colour, sides of 

 thorax and legs pale yellow ; antennae moderately long, sub-infus- 

 cate ; head trituberculate on the vertex and with two small, not 

 very distinct tubercles close to the base of antennae ; pronotum very 

 strongly constricted with the anterior margin highly reflexed and 

 fringed with upright fairly long bristles; mesonotum plurigibbose 

 and bearing a few setose hairs laterally ; abdomen short ; anterior 

 wings sub-obtuse at tip, hyaline with a slightly fuscous venation ; 

 the radial and sub-costal nervures and the space between them pale 

 flavescent, the hind border and also the nervures are fimbriate ; 

 hind wings very long, very narrow, broadly dilated at apex in 

 a very broad ovate paddle-like expansion half twisted in the 

 -centre, light fulvous like the stalk itself, which is lacteous, how- 

 ever, above the dilatation, and acuminate and distinctly lacteous 

 at apex. 



In the figure the white tapering lacteous part of the hind wing has 

 not come out well ; the right wing, however, shows the half twist of 

 the paddle. 



Length of body 10^ mm. ; expansion of anterior wings 35 mm. ; 

 length of posterior wing, 29 mm. 



This remarkable species was discovered some twenty-six years 

 ago at Constantia, near Cape Town by my colleague, Dr. W. F. 

 Purcell. It has not been met anew. 



Nemoptera pulchella. 

 Plate IX., fig. 14. 

 $ . Body and antennae hght fulvous, legs pale flavescent ; vertex 

 • of head plainly trituberculate, thorax concolorous, pronotum con- 

 stricted, and with the anterior margin and the sides densely setose ; 



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