270 Petersen, A few new Neuroptera Planipennia. 



black or dark brown. Pterostigmatic region marked with some few 

 dark-coloured and forked veins and with a yellow-red tinge. 



Length 55 mm; fore wing 72 mm. 



One specimen from North Queensland, in my coUection. 



liothochrysa mamilata nov. spec. 

 Head yellowish red, immaculate. Antennae black with the 

 exception of P* and 2^^ joints, which are yellowish red. Prothorax 

 above greyish white with a purple tinge and on each side with two 

 purplish brown spots. Mesothorax in front with a purplish brown 

 transversa stripe, with two spots of the same colour on the dorsum. 

 and at each wingroot with two more or less distinct spots. Meta- 

 thorax with purplish brown at the wingroots. The abdominal Segments 

 dark brown; dorsally with yellow transverse bands and yellow spots 

 along the side margins. The apex of abdomen yellow. Legs yellow ; 

 tarsi darker; the femora with a more or less distinct brown spot on 



Fig. 4. Fore wing of Nothochrysa maculata. 



the underside in the apical half; the claws strongly curved and with 

 a Sharp tooth in the middle. Wings hyaline. 



Pterostigma long and reddish yellow. Subcosta and radius 

 yellow; the other longitudinal nervures only a little darker than the 

 membrane. The 4 or 5 basal cross veins in the costal area of 

 forewing more or less blackish brown. The veinlet between subcosta 

 and radius blackish brown. The basal part of subradius and the 

 cross veins between it and the median blackish brown. The middle 

 part of subradius together with 5 — 6 cross veins between this part 

 and radius blackish brown. The majority (7 or 8) of the gradate 

 veinlets in the inner row together with the adjoining parts of the 

 sectores blackish brown. The 3 cross veins between P* and 2"^^ 

 cubital nervure blackish brown, and the 3^*^ cross vein clouded with 

 blackish brown. At the bind margin between the 2°'^ cubital nervure 

 and the P* sector from the 1** cubital nervure there is found a 

 blackish brown spot. The anal nervures are blackish brown, where 

 they join with the bind margin. In the bind wing the subcosta and 



