NE W DRA G ON-FL V \] MPJlS—XEEifJl. 1 M. 7 ( ) 1 



i.s one-third longer than the others. Labium short, the hinge scarcely 

 reaching the mesothorax; median lol)e not \ ci-y prominent, its sides 

 straight and spinulose and a pair of spinuh's on the obtuse median 

 angle, end an elongate-oval, chitinous thickening on the middle of the 

 tloorof the nientuni; mental sette 10 each side, tifth. counting lioni the 

 side longest; lateral setai 5, longer than the slendei-, tapering, neurly 

 straight movable hook; teeth on opposed edges low. serrate, incur\ed, 

 each armed with 8— i graduated spinules. 



Legs long, thin, nearly bare, and longitudinally grooved. \\'ini:-; 

 reaching the middle of tin* seventh abdominal segment. 



Abdomen triquetral, with sharp lateral edges, and Hat sides slo})ing 

 like a low roof, oval in outline, the long appendages furnishing an 

 attenuate apical point. Lateral spines on segments 8 and 9, stout, short, 

 triangular, those of the ninth segment as long as the tenth segment. 

 Segments slighth' increasing in length from the second to the ninth, 

 the tenth one-third as long as the ninth on the dorsal side. Inferior 

 appendages as long as segments 9 and 10 together, superiors scarc(dy 

 shorter, laterals one-third as long. Dorsal hooks on segments 3-1 o, 

 on 8 and 4 slender erect on 5 and 6 broader, declined, on 7-9 still 

 broader, covering basalh' their respective segmeids, their thin supe- 

 rior margins produced posteriorly in a sharp point; the hook on seg- 

 ment 10 similar, much smaller, its point obtuse. 



Buitenzorg, Java. D. G. Fairchild.'^ 



"While reading the proof of thi.s article there have come to hand a nnml)er of 

 nymphs from Batangas, Philippine Lslands, sent by my former i)upil, 3Ir. C. F. 

 Carstens, now of the provincial high school of that i)lace. These nymphs are 

 slightly larger, being fully grown (length, 22 mm.), the number of raptorial setie 

 upon the mentum of the labium is but 8 each side, and the third of these, counting 

 from the side, is longest. Aside from these trivial differences, they are apjiarently 

 quite identical with the ones described above. 



I am able to make out in these some further venational charai-ters tliat should 

 assist in identifying the species: The ante and post cul)itals are in the fore wing 12 and 

 8-l>, respectively, and in the hind wing 8 and 10, respectively. Vein Cn is strongly 

 angulate at base of triangle in the fore wing, the apex of the triangle appearing 

 sharply retracted. There is one cross vein in the triangle, there are but three cells 

 in the sul)triangle, and the space between the latter and the hind margin is very 

 narrow. There are three rows of cells beyond the triangle for a distance, and there 

 is a weakly developed median supi)lement subtending one row of oblique cells. 



In the hind wing there is a single cubito-anal cross vein before the triangle: tiie 

 latter is open, and the broad anal loop consists of two rows of large cells, the <listal 

 row divided and double from "heel" to "toe;" from the proximal marginal vein of 

 the loop about five acce.«sory sectors are decurrent to the hind margin. 



The venation is not very different from that of such species of Xeurothi'inls as 

 iV. equestria; but the sectors of the arculus are apparently separate at base in the fore 

 wing, as they should not be in Xeimitheinix. Specimens of the Batangas nymi>lis are 

 deposited in tht National Museum. 



