236 Journal New York Entomological Society. [Voi. xi. 



shade ; a black terminal line, and a pale line on base of fringe, interrupted by white 

 points. Secondaries dull brown ; a dark discal point ; fringe gray ; at apex roseate, 

 divided by a black line. Expanse 28 mm. 

 Habitat : Costa Rica. 



Perigrapha dukinfieldi, sp. nov. 



Head, thorax and primaries lilacine brown. Abdomen darker with pale tufts at 

 base. Primaries thinly irrorated with black scales ; lines very fine, brown, geminate ; 

 basal line wavy, followed by a dark point outwardly shaded with white in cell ; inner 

 line oblique to cell, then straight ; orbicular a dark point inwardly shaded with white ; 

 median shade thicker, strongly angled on re ni form posteriorly ; reniform large, circled 

 with buff, then outwardly shaded with reddish-brown, and marked with black pos- 

 teriorly ; outer line curved below costa, the outer portion punctiform from vein 5 to 

 inner margin ; an interrupted reddish-brown subterminal line parallel to outer line ; a 

 terminal black line preceded by black points. Secondaries dull brown ; fringe roseate. 

 Expanse 45 mm. 



Habitat : Sao Paulo, southeastern Brazil. 



SOME NEW NEUROPTEROID INSECTS. 



By Nathan Banks. 



PsociD^, 

 Psocus genualis, sp. nov. 



Pale yellow ; head with a median shining brown spot on ocelli, a patch of brown 

 each side behind, and a median one on upper part of nasus. Lateral lobes of thorax 

 shining black. Abdomen marked with black. Legs yellow ; tarsi dark brown, tips of 

 femur and base of tibia marked with shining black. Antennre large, reaching beyond 

 tips of wings.: yellow on base, darker beyond, short pilose. Wings hyaline, venation 

 brown, the radius pale till near angle of pterostigma, the forking of radial sector and 

 the posterior cross-vein closing the discal cell white ; the median white on base, and 

 the cubitus and anal white to tip, where there is a brown spot ; a smaller brown 

 spot at base of the pterostigma. The discal cell is almost square. Length to tip of 

 wings 6 mm. 



One specimen from Austin, Texas, June (McClendon). Distin- 

 guished by markings of face, and the black knees. Similar in many- 

 respects to P. novcB-scofice, but with different markings. 

 Psocus slossonee, sp. nov. 



Head pale yellowish, nasus with vertical dark lines, partly obsolete above ; 

 labrum black ; palpi black ; antenna; with basal joints brown, then pale till near 

 middle, beyond which it is blackish. Vertex with about eight brown roundish spots 



