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THE NEUROPTEBA OF MADEIRA. 

 BY DR. H. A. HAGEN. 

 (Continued from page 11.) 



EPIIEMEEID.^. 



Geuus Clod, Burmeister. 

 C. DiPTEBA, Liun., Pictet. 



Pallide rnfescenti-cinerea, segmentorum marginibus fikscescentihus, setia 

 fusco-punctatis, alls hyalinis, casta ( $ ) Jiavescenti-fusca, albo-marmorata, 

 posticis nullis. 



Long. Corp. 9-11 mill. ; exp. alar. 24-26 mill. ; long, setar. 12-13 mill. 



Female imago. Eosy fawn-coloured; eyes blue. Vertex and 

 prothorax with small reddish spots. Mesothorax with three slender 

 lines of the same colour. Each abdominal segment with tlu'ee spots 

 above. Caudal setae whitish, pointed with black. Feet whitish ; the 

 anterior with a red spot on the thighs, and with the tips of the tarsi 

 blackish. Wings transparent, with the posterior margin slightly 

 brownish, and all the costal region greenish-yellow, marked with small 

 white spots. The posterior wings altogether wanting. 



Madeira. 



The female (No. 71) is of the ordinary size ; the head, thorax, and 

 the basal portion of the wings wanting. No. 72 ( $ ) is smaller, but I 

 possess similar examples from various localities. This species is found 

 everywhere in Europe, but I do not know the male with certainty, which 

 differs considerably from the female according to M. Pictet, 



Nos. 71 & 72 ? . 



C. Madebensis. 



Oeulis nigris ; thorace nigro-fusco, nitente ; ahdomine luteo, apice ohscu- 

 riori ; setis luteis, vix annulatis ; pedihus luteis, anticis nigro-fuscis ; alis 

 Jiyalinis, op ice antice paulo infuscatis ; alis posticis minimis. 

 Long. Corp. ^ 5^-6| mill., $ 6^ mill.; exp. alar. ,^ 12-13 onill., 

 $ 13 mill. ; long, setar. ^ 12 mill., ? 10 mill. 



Head with the antennae of a blackish-brown. Eyes with the turban 

 black, perhaps reddish during life, for the margins seem to be slightly 

 reddish. Thorax entirely of a brilliant blackish-brown, without spots. 

 Abdomen fawn-coloured, the apex slightly darker, brownish. Caudal 

 setae fawn-coloured, the articulations brown, but so slightly as to appear 

 scarcely annulated. Feet fawn-coloured, the anterior pair blackish- 

 brown. Anal appendages of the male arched. Wings perfectly trans- 



