68 NEUROPTERA. 



Antennas testaceous, annulated with brown, with their 

 base blackish ; thorax and abdomen testaceous ; legs 

 testaceous, the ends of the tibiae and the tarsi of the 

 anterior and intermediate legs annulated with black ; 

 anterior wings brown, spotted with grey ; tiro larger 

 obsolete grey spots on the anterior margin, and three 

 interrupted grey transverse lines on the hinder mar- 

 gin ; border white, spotted with black ; posterior 

 wings grey, with a darker margin. App. sup. $ 

 small, coalescent, bordered with yellow ; App. inf. 

 large, hook-shaped, bent inwards and upwards, thicker 

 at the base. 



Length 4 lin. ; exp. 8g lin. 



Hab., in July, Epping Forest, Parley Heath, South 

 Lambeth, New Forest, Scotland. 



Genus Neuronia, Leach, Stephens. 



Wings not covered with hair, the anterior with the apices 

 elliptical; palpi short, broad, scarcely hairy ; legs almost 

 spineless ; the discoidal cell of the anterior wings is remark- 

 ably short and narrow, nearly elliptical. 



Colour of the body black ; legs usually pale, with black 

 tarsi ; wings unicolorous, dusky, with strongly marked veins. 



The case of the larvae is composed of quadrangular frag- 

 ments of leaves arranged in a spiral turned towards the light. 

 They live in stagnant water. 



5. Neuronia ruficrus, Scop.; Walk. Cat. 11, 13; N. 

 fusca, Steph. 111. 234, 1 ; P. striata, Burm. ; O. ana- 

 Ms, Kolen. 

 Shining black ; wings uniform blackish brown, trans- 

 lucent, with the veins darker and very distinct ; legs 



