24 NEUROPTERA. 



5. Ps. QUADRIMACULATUS, Stoph. III. 124, 26. 



BufF; eyes slightly prominent ; head buff; blackish 

 round the ocelli ; forehead with indistinct brown 

 streaks ; antennas short, yellowish, darker towards the 

 apex ; thorax and abdomen brown, spotted with 

 yellow; legs yellowish; wings hyaline, dull grey; 

 veins brownish ; pterostigma ovate, short and rather 

 wide, brownish ; before the middle of the wing a dull, 

 obsolete and interrupted brown transverse band, and 

 a similar spot in the posterior marginal cell. 



Length 2 hn. ; exp. 3 lin. 



Sah. London, not scarce in the summer. 



This species is figured by West wood ; Introd. ii. fig. 

 59,8. 



h. Tarsi hi-articulate. 



* Pterostigma united n-ith the fork-branch, running beneath 



it by a transverse vein. 



6. Ps. SUBOCELLATUS, Stcph. 111. 124, 29; Ps. quadri- 



punctatuSf Steph. 111. 125, 33; Ps. costalis, Steph. 



111. 126, 35. 

 Red-brown, shining ; head red-brown, blackish in front ; 



antennae short, stout, yellowish ; thorax red-brown ; 



abdomen yellowish ; legs pale, tarsi darker ; wings 



hyaHne ; anterior wings with four black spots near 



the base, two on the posterior margin, two before it ; 



towards the apex with three brown bands, the two 



outer ones united at the posterior margin ; pterostigma 



triangular. 

 Length 2 lin. ; exp. 3 lin. 

 Mab. Common near London in June and July, Suflfolk, 



Dover, Hertford, Ripley. 



