NEUROPTEROID INSECTS FROM SZECHWAN — BANKS 219 



HALESINUS ALBOPUNCTATUS Martynov 



From near Yien Long Shien, August 3-6, 13,000 to 15,000 feet; Yin 

 Kuan Tsai, July 25, 13,000 to 15,000 feet; and Jedo Pass, July 13, 

 12,000 to 15,000 feet, all on China-Tibet border. 



' HALESINUS TENUICORNIS Ulmer 



From Wen Chuan Shien, July 26, 5,800 feet; Hai Tsi Ping near 

 Tatsienlu, August 5, 13,000 feet; near Moupin, July 22-24; 0-Er, 

 north of Li Fan, 9,000 feet ; Bui Lau Tsen, northeast of Li Fan, July 

 31, 8,500 feet; 9 miles southwest of Tatsienlu, June 25, 8,500 to 13,000 

 feet (all Szechuan) ; and Jedo Pass, July 17, 12,000 to 15,000 feet, 

 China-Tibet border. 



Family CALAMOCERATIDAE 

 Genus PSILOTRETA Banks 



PSXLOTRETA CHINENSIS, new species 

 Plate 27, Figuee 1 ; Plate 30, Figubes 67, 68, 70 



Head and thorax reddish brown, abdomen dull black; face with 

 yellowish hair, vertex and thorax above with short gray hair; palpi 

 brown; antennae pale, basal joint darker, legs pale yellowish, with 

 fine whitish hair, spurs pale. 



Fore wings brownish gray clothed with golden and black hair, the 

 latter short and hidden by the golden; hindwings gray, with black 

 hair. In shape and venation the forewings are similar to P. japonica, 

 the discal cell is rather longer and slenderer, fork one is much longer, 

 reaching back more than halfwaj^ on discal cell; fork two with a 

 moderate pedicel, fork three quite short, fork five a little widened 

 near base. 



Tip of abdomen of female (from above) shows two emarginate 

 lobes, the shorter one above the other. The male genitalia are rather 

 complicated. Above is a median triangular superior plate, beyond 

 its tip is a slender peniscover, and the penis, the latter deeply bilobed 

 at tip ; from each lateral side or tip of the abdomen is a moderately 

 long and broad, extremely hairy appendage, from its inner tip pro- 

 jects a dark bar toward the tip of superior plate, at its upper tip is 

 a curved spine, also a curved spine at inner tip of the lateral ap- 

 pendage, but hidden in the long hair. Between these median and 

 lateral parts is a dark, 3-pointed piece, the outer and inner processes 

 tapering to a long, slender-curved point, one of which projects down- 

 ward and is seen from the side. 



Length of f orewing, male, 12 mm. ; female, 15 mm. 



