NEUROPTEROID INSECTS FROM SZECHWAN — BANKS 199 



Venation much as in others; fork one plainly before fork two in 

 forewings, not in the hindwings; stigmal vein a branch from the 

 radius, but in hindwings with an oblique connection from base to the 

 subcosta. 



Male genitalia rather short; above is a slender, pointed, median 

 piece, widened and tricarinate at base, intermediate appendages 

 slender, more than one halfway to tip of median piece, and with 

 recurved bristles near tip; lateral appendages strongly spatulate, 

 lower pieces broad and with an upturned tip; both from above and 

 below is seen a little black spine each side near the base. 



Forewing, 21 mm. long; 6.5 mm. wide. 



From Yu Long Si, 15,600 feet, August 14, Tibet (holotype) ; Chung 

 Ku, July 12-15, 11,000 feet ; and Hai Tsi Ping, near Tatsienlu, August 

 5, 13,000 feet, Szechwan. Holotype, U.S.N.M. No. 53156. Paratype 

 in U.S.N.M. and M.C.Z. 



HIMALOPSYCHE AURICULARIS (Martynov) 



Two females from U Long Kong, near Tatsienlu, July 25, 10,000 

 to 15,000 feet. The type (a male) was from Tatsienlu, with expanse 

 of 52 mm. One of the females is about 53 mm., the other 50 mm. 

 The female differs from H. martynovi in that the ventral piece is a 

 long, slender horn. 



HIMALOPSYCHE MARTYNOVI, new species 



Plate 30, Figuees 57, 58 



Head and palpi pale rufous, hair on front yellowish, on vertex 

 black; antennae pale brownish yellow, basal joint darker, tips of 

 joints beyond also dark; thorax above dull rufous, darker on sides 

 of mesonotum, hair pale, except that above wing base which is black; 

 abdomen dull brownish, tip and venter paler ; legs pale, front and mid 

 tibiae with broad black bands above at middle and at tip, these tarsi 

 dark at tips of the joints. 



Wings pale, nearly hyaline, densely irrorate with pale brown, spots 

 most noticeable in costal area, and along the veins, between veins 

 faint and minute irrorations; stigma dark; along cubitus and anal 

 veins much black hair, and an oblique line of black hair from hind 

 base of wing obliquely up to base of cubitus; a hyaline spot on 

 thyridium. 



Hindwings pale gray, stigma darker. In forewings forks one and 

 two are about equal, in liindwing fork one much beyond fork two. 



Male genitalia has a slender reddish median plate ending in two 

 long lobes, and with a median groove from near base to near tip, each 

 side the lateral appendages have erect hair ; seen from side the lateral 

 appendages are very broad, deeply divided, the upper part much the 



