NEUROPTEROTD INSECTS FROM SZECHWAN — BANKS 215 



PSEUDOSTENOPHYLAX GRAHAMI Martynov 



From Wei Chow, August 15, Szechwan; and Yu Long Gong, 

 August 14, 14,000 feet, Tibet. 



PSEUDOSTENOPHYLAX DIFFICILIS Martynov 



From Chin Chi Shien, west of Yachow, July 10, 4,500 to 6,000 feet; 

 others from Yellow Dragon Temple (type locality) July 25, 11,000 

 to 14,000 feet, and Hai Tsi Ping, near Tatsienlu, August 5, 13,000 feet. 



PSEUDOSTENOPHYLAX MINIMUS, new species 



Plate 28, Figtjee 31 ; Plate 29, Figure 36 



Body brown, abdomen above dull black, the longer hairs and 

 bristles are black, some long ones on pronotum are paler, and the 

 short, more appressed hair on face and vertex is pale; basal joint of 

 antennae brown, with black hairs, beyond paler; palpi brown; legs 

 pale, with short black spines, hindtibia of male curved, and with a 

 row of long, slightly curved hairs on hind edge. 



Forewings pale brown, with scattered pale spots, not often con- 

 nected, few pale spaces in costal area, membrane with short black 

 hair, those on the veins not much longer, except in anal area ; hind- 

 wings pale gray, hardly darker at tip. Forewings in shape like 

 grahami, discal cell more than twice as long as the pedicel, its upper 

 edge before fork one is concave, latter back on the discal cell about 

 width of the cell. In hindwings no apparent scales, in anal area 

 an elongate deep pouch, costal area very broad. 



Tip of abdomen has a long sloping area, brown, and with very short 

 curved hairs, above is a tuft or crest of long black hairs; below are 

 the two median teeth, large, and quite long with narrowed and 

 rounded tips, mostly black; the lower appendages are moderately 

 long, seen from below long on the outer side, very much shorter on 

 inner side, the tip concave, and provided with many very long 

 bristles. 



Length of forewings, 13 mm. ; width, 5 mm. 



One from near Washan, 4,000 to 6,000 feet. Holotype, U.S.N.M. 

 No. 53169. 



Differs from P. brevis by less broad wing, longer discal cell, ciliate 

 hind tibia, and shape of the median teeth. 



PSEUDOSTENOPHYLAX MIMICUS, new species 

 Plate 29, Figures 42, 45 



Greatly resembling P. minimus, of samie size and general colora- 

 tion; the forewings are more pale, better described as pale, marmo- 



