NEUROPTEROID INSECTS FROM SZECHWAN — BANKS 183 



NEURONEMA SIMILIS, new species 



Plate 28, FiGtniES 27, 30 



In general similar to N. sinensis Tjeder, but the dark basal part 

 of wing is not so dark, and the pale apical part is more broken by 

 marks, the outer gradates are brown, except lower three, in both 

 sexes; male genitalia very different. 



Face pale, with a few faint dark marks, a dark brown spot over 

 base of each antenna; antenna pale, but inner side of basal joint 

 brown; pronotum brown, with a pale stripe through the middle, 

 mesonotum and metanotum largely brown ; abdomen above and below 

 paler brown; legs pale, front femora dark above, front and mid 

 tibiae with the usual dark streaks. 



Forewings marked much as the photograph of N. sinensis; gradates 

 mostly brown, but a few in each row usually pale; in hindwings 

 outer gradates dark, inner row hyaline, longitudinal veins mostly 

 brownish, a faint brown cloud on hind margin beyond end of anal 

 vein. 



In forewings four radial sectors, the fourth with six or seven 

 branches; at inner gradates only two veins between the hyaline line 

 and the medius, about 6 inner gradates, 10 in middle series, and 14 

 in outer row. 



In the male the superior plate is much longer and less high than 

 in other species, the wart is near the lower edge, and beyond it and 

 above it are two slightly swollen areas (dotted lines in figure), the 

 lower piece is not so long as in laminata and has a black tooth at 

 end; the inferior piece (ninth sternite) is much slenderer than in 

 laminata. 



Length of forewing, male, 12 mm. ; female, 13 mm. 



Several from Yellow Dragon Temple, near Songpan, July 20, 

 12,000 to 14,000 feet. 



Holotype, U. S. N. M. No. 53143. Paratypes in U. S. N. M. and 

 M. C. Z. 



ALLEMEROBIUS, new genus 



In appearance like Hemerobius^ with recurrent vein, but rather 

 narrow costal area; the fork of median vein is scarcely bent down, 

 so that the cross vein to cubitus is nearly as long as the one behind 

 it ; it differs from both BoHomyia and Hemerohius in having the tip 

 of wing falcate, the outer margin being broadly, evenly concave, 

 three radial sectors (in genotype), two series of gradates, the first 

 anal vein with long fork. 



