102 MANDIBULATA. NEUROPTERA. 



A local insect, found in the vicinity of Windsor ; also in the New 

 Forest and in Devonshire, in June and July ; also, but very rarely, 

 at Darenth wood. 



Sp. 2. capitata. Piceo-testacea, capite fulvescente pedibus pallide testaceis, alls 

 hyalinis, nervis stigmateque pallide fuscis. (Long. corp. 3g — 4 lin. ; Exp. 

 Alar. 1 unc. 2 — 4 lin.) 



He. capitata. Fabricius. — Ch. capitata. Stepk. Catal. 310. No. 3450. 



Pitchy-testaceous: head fulvous; antennae black; eyes greenish; thorax 

 pitchy, its anterior portion, or collar, testaceous; wings hyaline, very 

 highly iridescent, with the nervures and costal stigma pale fuscous. 



Taken in Devonshire and in the New Forest, but not common, in 

 June ; also near Hertford and Ripley. 



Sp. 3. reticulata. Viridis, capite thoraceque nigro punctatin, abdominis dorso 

 ventreque nigris, alis subcarulescenti-viridibus nervis transversalihus nigres- 

 ceniibus. (Long, corp, 4< — 5 lin.; Exp. Alar. 10 — 14 lin.) 



Ch. reticulata. Leach — Steph. Catal. 310. No. 3451. — He. chrysops. Wood, 

 ii. pi. 49. 



Head luteous-green, with various simple and united black spots and marks; 

 palpi varied with black ; collar bluish-green, with black spots on the sides; 

 thorax yellowish-green, irregularly marked with black on the sides ; abdo- 

 men also yellowish-green on the sides and margins of the segments, the 

 back and under surface black ; legs green ; tarsi reddish ; antennae reddish, 

 the basal joint black beneath, the apex dusky; wings faint bluish-green, 

 with the nervures of a darker tint, most of the transverse ones dusky or 

 blackish. 



Not uncommon in woods and woody places, during the month of 

 June, as at Coombe and Darenth woods, near Hertford, Ripley, 

 Dover, the New Forest, &c. 



Sp. 4. maculata. Luteo-viridis thoracis lateribus segmentorumque abdo7ninis 

 basi nigris, capite nigro maculato, alis subabbreviatis, apice rotundato. (Long, 

 corp. 3 lin.; Exp. Alar. 10 lin.) 



Ch. maculata. Steph. Catal. 3U. No. 34-52. 



Luteous-greenish : head with two spots on the labrum, one surrounding each 

 antennae, and uniting behind on the forehead, and one behind each eye 

 black; thorax with its sides irregularly varied with black, approaching to 

 spots on those of the meso- and metathorax ; wings short, rounded at the 

 apex, pale green, with pale fuscescent nervures, and a faint brownish 

 stigma ; abdomen with the base of the segments black ; legs pale ; antennae 

 reddish, with fuscescent rings. 



Taken, in June, at Darenth wood. 



