; AQUATIC INSECTS IN NEW YORK STATE 467 



dd Front wings not spotted with darli; 

 cross veins dark or not; metatborax 

 not marli:ed witli black or brown 

 e Cross veins of fore wings more or less 

 darkened (brown or black) 

 f Dark markings on protborax dis- 

 tinct; media of fore wings with 

 six branches; cross veins between 



all branches of radius, 25 to 30. . 5 c o r r i p i e n s 



ff Dark markings on protborax indis- 

 tinct; media of fore wings with 

 3 (?) bi'anches; cross veins be- 

 tween all branches of radius, 10 



to 12 G w i n t b e m i 



ee Cross veins of fore wings not darkened 7 p a 11 i d u s 



DESCRIPTION AND GEOGRAPHIC RANGE OF SPECIES 



1 N. soror Hagen 



1861 C r y d a 1 i s soror Hagen, Synopsis Neur. N. Am, p. 193 



General color liiteous; mandibles brown; cheeks with alate 

 bidentate process; head broad, not depressed, a brownish stripe 

 each side; protborax narrower than head, longer than broad, 

 each side with a brownish border; legs lurid with knees and apex 

 of tarsi obscurer; antennae short, slender, black, the two basal 

 seg-ments yellowish; appendages of male four, superior ones 

 forcipated, clavate at apex; inferior ones cylindric, extremely 

 short; wings luteo-subhyaline, an obsolete band on the middle 

 of front pair, and fuscous spots nearer the apex; veins fuscous,^ 

 luteous on the middle of the costal space; cross veins between 

 all branches of radius, about 18 to 21; medius of fore wing 

 four branched; Cui with four to five accessories. Length to tip 

 of wings 60 to 75mm; alar expanse 85 to 130mm. 

 Mexico, Cordova. 



2 N. cephalotes Rambur 



1842 Corydalis cephalotes Rambur, Hist. Nat. Neur. p.441 

 1853 Corydalis cephalotes Walker, Cat. Brit. Mus. Neur. p.208 

 1861 Co ry dalis .^f fin is Hagen, Synopsis Neur. N. Am. p.321 



{nomen nudum) 

 1866 Corydalis hecate McLachlan, Jour, of Ent. 2:499, pl.20 



Color of body dark brown, mandibles and mouth parts reddish 

 brown; head dark brown, roughened behind but not marked 



