84 MAXDIBUI-ATA. NEUROPTERA. 



two long-er ones on the hinder margin, the 9th and 10th are black at the 

 base, greenish at the apex, and want the dorsal line ; caudal appendages 

 fuscous, with a pale streak, the upper pair waved within, mucronated and 

 incurved, the lower acuminated; legs black; wings transparent, or faintly 

 yellowish, stigma fuscous. Female differs slightly in the spotting of the 

 abdomen, and the apical appendage is shorter and lanceolate. 

 Wings sometimes fuscescent ; especially at the tip, and the legs occasionally 

 reddish at the base. 



A very abundant species throughout the metropolitan district, 

 during the summer : found also at Leominster, Godalming, Coventry, 

 &:c. and in Devonshire, the New Forest, and Suffolk. 



Sp , -t. Juncea. Fuscescens, thorace supra maculis 2-bus angustis etj'asciis 'habits 

 lateralibusjlavidis, abdumine maculatissimo, alis hyaJinis membranuld accessoria 

 nigricantti. (Long. corp. 2 unc. 8 — 9 lin. ; Exp. Alar. 3 unc. 2 — 3 lin.) 



Li. Juncea. Linne?—Ms\\. J\xnce?^. Sieph. Catal. 309. JV^o. 3429. 



Fuscescent or reddish; face luteous ; crown with a black T; thorax with 

 two narrow yellowish dark streaks, and two broader ones on each side; 

 abdomen spotted, the intermediate segments each with a double bluish spot 

 on each side at the base, two at the apex above and two on the disc, towards 

 the base ; anal appendages fuscous, the lower one acuminated ; legs pale ; 

 wings fuscescent; accessory membrane dusky. 



Probably a variety of the following species, to which it is closely allied. 



Rare: found in the vicinity of Whittlesea Mere, in Jv\ly. 



Sp. 5. mixta. ViriJescens, ihorace S7ipra maculis 2-bus parvis obsofetis et strigis 

 2-bus laleribus hiteis, abdoniine maculatissimo, alis hyalinis, stigmate ferru- 

 gineo, viembranula accessoria cinered antice alba. (Long. corp. 2 unc. 8 — 9 

 lin. ; Exp. Alar. 3 unc. 2 — 5 lin.) 



JEsh. mixta. Latreille. — Steph. Catal. 416. No. 3430. — Li. Coluberculus. 

 Harris, pi. xxvii-^. 1 $. 



Head greenish, above luteous, with a black patch on the forehead ; eyes blue; 

 thorax fuscous, with two small luteous spots above, and two broad oblique 

 fasciae on each of the sides; abdomen brown, banded with black, the basal 

 segment with a yellow spot on each side, second with a small triangular 

 spot at the base, and a transverse medial line on each side, of the same hue, 

 posteriorly and on the sides blue, with a luteous spot on each side, and the 

 hinder margin black, six following with a transverse bluish line on the back^ 

 two spots behind, and two or three on the sides at the base ; anal appendages 

 fuscous, pilose on the inner edge, and slightly attenuated towards the base, 

 lower one rusty and acuminated ; legs black, with the base of the femora 

 red; wings hyaline, stigma rather long and rusty; accessory membrane 

 ashy, the base white. Female with the eyes greeni.sh, the spots on the 



