338 NEUROPTERA. 



RAPHIDID^. 



Rapliidia arizonica n. sp. 



Head blackish green, with usual reddish streaks; basal joint of an- 

 tennae dark, beyond pale for about one-third way out, then black ; 

 pronotum dark, yellow on sides, pale reddish on anterior one-fourth, 

 behind with three reddish streaks ; rest of thorax black, a pale spot on 

 middle lobe of mesonotum, and on metascutellum ; abdomen greenish 

 black, hind borders of segments narrowly yellow, last ventral in both 

 sexes mostly pale ; legs pale. Wings with black veins except at ex- 

 treme base, where they are yellow, stigma yellowish brown, moder- 

 ately long, nearly as long as first cell below, four cells below. Head 

 not very elongate ; the male has upper piece of genitalia with a pro- 

 jection at lower tip ; in female the last ventral segment is slightly pro- 

 duced in the middle. 



Expanse 25 mill. 



From Phoenix, Arizona (Oslar). 



The shape of male genitalia is characteristic, and the mostly 

 dark pronotum will often separate it. 



Rapliidia distiucta n. sp. 



Greenish black ; a median, reddish stripe behind on vertex, lateral 

 stripes not distinct ; basal joint of antennae a little dark, beyond pale, 

 and then dark again ; pronotum paler on anterior fourth ; thorax un- 

 spotted ; abdominal segments very narrowly paler behind ; legs pale, 

 hind femora brown or black. Wings with black veins, stigma dark 

 brown. Head rather short, diamond-shaped, pronotum narrow, as 

 long as head. Wings rather short, subcosta ending only a little beyond 

 middle, four hyaline spots on veins, one being in middle of hind edge 

 of the second cell under stigma, only three of these cells ; the stigma 

 is very peculiar, it is short, broadened behind, and reaches beyond the 

 cell below it to the upper edge of the vein from the tip of the cell. 

 Last ventral segment of female truncate ; male appendages as figured 

 and very characteristic. 



Expanse 14-16 mm. 



From Mt. Finos, Kern County, Saw Mill Caiion, Kern 

 County, and San Gabriel Mountains, Los Angeles County, 

 all California, and taken by Mr. Fordyce Grinnell in June. 



Raphidia astuta n. sp. 



Basal joint of antennae pale ; hardly any pale in front of antennae ; 

 vertex with usual pale stripes; pronotum pale in front, behind with 

 streaks like those of R. adnixa ; abdomen black, venter pale; legs 

 pale. Wings rather slender, four (or sometimes five) cells under the 

 stigma, which is rather long, and unicolorous pale yellowish ; the 



