CIIRYSOPA. 217 



May this not be Hemerohius lateralis Guer. Icon. Regn. Anim. 



p. 388 ? 



18. Ch. explorata! 



Chrysopa explorata Hagen ! 



Yellowish ; face with a large, quadrangular spot, occiput with 

 a Y-shaped streak and spot, red ; antennae yellowish, fuscous at 

 base ; tlie first article yellow, with the apex above, red ; prothorax 

 broad, obliquely truncated in front; anterior margin black; wings 

 hyaline, narrow, pterostigma yellow, interiorly with a red spot ; 

 transverse veins of the anterior wings almost all blackish-fuscous; 

 gradate veins 5 and 5. 



Length to tip of wings 13 millim. Alar expanse 23 millim. 



JIab. Cordova, Mexico (Saussure). 



* * Antennae immaculate ; veins varied w'ith black. 



19. Ch. insularis. 



Chrysopa insularis Walk. Catal. 269, 73. 



Testaceous, beneath paler; antennce testaceous, much longer 

 than the wings ; head testaceous, mouth rufous, a vertical rufous 

 streak ; prothorax long, conical ,; segments of the abdomen fuscous 

 posteriorly ; wings hyaline, veins green, some of them black ; 

 pterostigma small, fuscous ; anterior wings with a discoidal fus- 

 cous spot, internal gradate veins black. (From the description of 

 Walker.) 



Length to tip of wings 20 millim. Alar expanse 36 millim. 



Hah. Jamaica (Gosse). 



20. Ch. transversa. 



Chrysopa transversa Walk. Catal. 255, 46. 



Yellow ; antennae shorter than the wings, yellow, pubescent, the 

 base paler ; head yellow ; face with a spot at the base of the an- 

 tennae, and the lateral margin, rufous; palpi partly black; protho- 

 rax broad, short, narrower anteriorly, the lateral margins rufous ; 

 feet pale green ; wings hyaline, veins green, transverse ones almost 

 all black ; pterostigma pale green ; areoles rather few. (From 

 the description of Walker.) 



Length to tip of wings — ? millim. Alar expanse 22 millim. 



Hab. Jamaica (Gosse). 



