286 . NEUROPTERA OF NORTH AMERICA. 



fuscous; the apex fuscous, with an orbicular, yellow spot; poste- 

 rior wings cinereous, the anterior margin and pterostigma yellow. 

 Male and female. 



Var. Anterior wings less spotted, the basal stripes shorter, the 

 disk spotted, and the apex with an incurved band, which has the 

 open side inwards, fuscous. 



JIab. St. Lawrence River, Canada ; Washington ; Yirginia 

 (Osten Sacken) ; Maryland ; Niagara Falls ; immensely common 

 upon the foliage of trees on Goat Island (Uhler). 



I possess a very small specimen from Washington, only 11 mil- 

 lim. long ; but it is not different. Sometimes the bands of the 

 wings are almost altogether confluent. 



6. M. cupreum ! 



Macronema cuprea Walk. Catal. 76, 8. 



Fuscous ; antennse fuscous, with the base luteous, the incisures 

 fuscous ; face, palpi and feet luteous ; head and thorax fuscous, 

 partly clothed with golden pile ; anterior wings luteo-fuscous, with 

 golden hair, before the apex clouded with black ; posterior wings 

 luteo-cinereous, the anterior margin luteous. 



Length to tip of wings IT — 20 millim. Alar expanse 32 — 34 

 millim. 



Hah. Mexico (Deppe); Brazil. 



I saw a male and female from Mexico in the Berlin Museum 

 (immature specimens), the.wings were luteo-fuscous, the golden pile 

 was almost wanting or rubbed off; the other specimens from Brazil 

 are not different. 



Does M. auripenne, Rambur, differ from this species ? 



HYDROPSYCHE Pictet. . 



Spurs arranged 2, 4, 4 ; antennae rather long, slender ; ocelli 

 absent ; second article of the maxillary palpi long, the fifth equal 

 to all of the others together ; intermediate feet of the female 

 dilated. 



1. H. scalaris ! * 



Hydropsyche scalaris Hagen ! 



Black-gray, with white hair; antennae luteous, the base obliquely 

 striated with black, the first article with snow-white hair; head 



