ALUARKIA FURCATA. 203 



NOTE VIL 

 NEW AND LITTLK-KNOWN NEUROPÏERA 



BY 



H. W. VAN DER WEELE. 



Alhardia furcata^ v. d. Weele. 

 [Notes Leyden Mus. 23, pp. 234 and 235 (1903)]. 



I have compared this species with Haploglenius and 

 Episperches hut better I could compare it with the Australian 

 genus Stilhopteryx Newm. which I had not seen before I 

 made my description. 



The form of the head with the very short antennae, 

 which are, like those of Stilhopteryx^ shorter than the 

 thorax, the round pterostigma, ferrugineous in Albardia, 

 white in Stilhopteryx, and also the simple sinuated post- 

 costa are characters of near relationship. According to 

 Mc. Lachlan (J. Linn. Soc. XI, p. 229, 1871) the Stilho- 

 pteryx (ƒ has a pelotte, and must therefore be placed in 

 the Myrmeleontidae, in Albardia it is wanting and there- 

 fore this genus belongs to the Ascalaphidae. By the simple 

 and sinuated postcosta the two genera are related to all 

 American Schizophthalraous Ascalaphidae at one side and 

 to the Myrmeleontid genera Echthromyrmex M. Lachl. (Asia) 

 and Diniares Hagen (Central America) at the other side. 

 According to Mc. Lachlan Stilhopteryx is also related to 

 the Australian species of Suphalasca Lefèbvre. 



They may also be regarded as the representatives of an 

 original group, connecting Ascalaphidae and Myrmeleontidae. 



Notes from tlie Leytlen Museum, Vol. XXIV. 



