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Petersen, A few new Neuroptera Planipennia. 



Drepaniciis prasinus nov. spec. 

 Head, thorax and abdomen grass green. Face, labium and palpi 

 yellowish white. In front of the antennae a yellow W-shaped figure, be- 

 hind a curved yellow stripe, which together wilh the W-shaped figure 

 touches a yellow band round each eye. The occiput very elevated in 

 the middle, punctuated, short haired, and with a very fine smooth, 

 iongitudinal line. The P* and 2°*^ Joint of the antennae yellow. 

 Prothorax cylindrical, broader in front than behind, hardly as long as 

 meso- and metathorax together, short haired and with a smooth yellow 

 median stripe on the dorsum. Meso- and metathorax with a broad 



Fig. 6. Fore and bind wing of Dreyanicus prasinus. 



Iongitudinal, yellow stripe. Legs yellowish green. Fore femora on the 

 inner side and nearest the base with one, long spine, and on the 

 under side of the apical half with several small and three larger 

 teeth. The claws on the intermediate and bind legs without teeth 

 at the base. Membrane of wings transparent, grass green; the 

 nervures darker and with a few short and black hairs; the radius 

 and the greater pari of transverse veins (not in the costal area) in 

 fore wing yellow. 



Length 13 mm; fore wing 21 mm; bind wing 18 mm. 



One female, Deutsches Entom. Museum, captured 1902 by 

 Dr. W. Hörn at Greenville, California. The specimen has lost 

 its antennae, the one fore leg and the claws of the olher. I have 

 compared the specimen with the description of Drepanicus chrysopinus 

 Brauer, but it seems to me that the difference is so large that I 

 cannot refer the specimen to this Chilian species, although I can very 

 well see that the two species are nearly related. I do not know 

 Drepanicus Oayi Blanchard from Chile. 



