68 NEUROPTERA. 



56. Molanna angustata, Curt. Phil. Mag. 214; B. E. 



716; Steph. 111. 203, 2; M. nigripalpis, Steph. 111. 



203, 1, pi. 32, fig. 3 ; N. plicata, Ramb. 

 Brown ; antennae and legs testaceous ; anterior wings 



clay-coloured, clothed with silky hairs; the veins 



brownish ; posterior wings grey. 

 Length 5 lin. ; exp. 9 lin. 

 Hah. London, Hertford, Devonshire and New Forest, 



from May to August. 



Genus Leptocerus, Leach, Stephens, Curtis. 



Antennae much longer than the wings; much longer in the 

 males than in the females, very thin, basal joint thickened in 

 a flask-like form, as long as the head ; maxillary palpi densely 

 clothed with long hairs, the first joint short, the two fol- 

 lowing very long; anterior wings narrow, scarcely dilated 

 towards the elliptical apex, anterior margin straight, posterior 

 margin slightly emarginate ; posterior wings considerably 

 shorter, nearly triangular, folded ; spurs 2, 2, 2. 



Case trumpet- shaped, pointed, constructed of vegetable 

 matters worked up into a paste, or (?) of fine sand. 



Here belongs Ceraclea, Stephens (the statement that the 

 two basal joints of the maxillary palpi are short, is incor- 

 rect), and of Leptocerus, the § B. {$) and § C. (?). In 

 the females the anterior branch of the Ramus thyrifer is 

 forked, in the males simple. 



57. Leptocerus nervosus, F. ; Lat. ; C. nervosa, Steph. 



111. 194, 1 ; M. vinosa, Ramb. ; L. Fennicus, Hag. 

 Coal-black, strongly clothed with whitish-grey hairs 

 on the head and maxillary palpi ; antennae black, 

 annulated with snow-white below to beyond the mid- 

 dle ; anterior wings ash-coloured, hyaline ; the veins 



