142 1883. Entomol. Nachrichten. No. 11/12. 



einen eigenthümlichen Eindruck, in fernen Regionen Formen 

 des heimathlichen Erdtheils vrieder zu finden, oder umgekehrt. 

 Im Folgenden habe ich die in der Literatur sehr zer- 

 streuten Beschreibungen der Myopsocus-Species zusammen- 

 getragen und dazu eine neue Art aus Neu-Seeland, die mir 

 Herr Mc. Lachlan freundUchst zur Ansicht mittheilte, be- 

 schrieben. 



1. Myopsocus Eatoni Mc. Lachlan. 

 Ent. Monthl. Mag. Vol. XVIL 1880, p. 103. 



„Head yellowish-grey, rather thickly spotted with deep 

 black, the ocelli placed in a larger black spot, front with 

 somewhat undulating deep black longitudinal lines, closely 

 placed, those in the middle shorter than the others ; labrum 

 blackish, with a central yellowish spot. Antennae whitish- 

 yellow, pilose, the apex of each Joint more distinctly whitish, 

 preceded by a broad ante-apical black band. Palpi blackish, 

 with pale rings. Thorax and abdomen fuscescent, varied 

 with yellowish (or vice versa). Legs yellowish: coxae blackish; 

 trochanters with a fuscous mark ; femora fuscescent or blackish 

 externally, with indications of two maculose ante-apical black 

 rings; tibiae finely spotted with black, and with a broad 

 apical blackring ; tarsi having the Ist Joint pale, the 2nd 

 and 3rd blackish. Anterior wings semiopaque, grey, thickly 

 spotted and clouded with fuscous, but with a very distinct 

 curved median pale space under the „forked" vein ; the costal 

 margin and all the neuration closely spotted with deep black ; 

 pterostigma triangulär, not darker, but with a faint yellowish 

 (or greenish) tinge ; extreme apex slightly reddish. Posterior 

 wings greyish-hyaline, with darker neuration, and a darker 

 greyish clouding along the inner margin. — Expanse, about 

 8 mm." 



One example (probably cJ) on a bridge over a stream 

 near Silves, Algarve, 16th May (Portugal). 



*2. Myopsocus lugens Hagen. 

 Synopsis of the Neuroptera of N. America. 1861, p. 9. 

 „Fuscous, varied with white; nasus fuscous, lineated 

 with gray; front fuscous, occiput striated with whitish; an- 

 tennae rather slender, brownish, two basal articulations thicker, 

 apex pale, setae with the apical articulations whitish; thorax 

 fuscous, margined with white; femora fuscous, annulated 



*) Die mit einem Sternchen (*) versehenen Speciea sind mir unbekannt. 



