348 NEUROPTERA. 



median line. Base of fore wings fuscous, a long reddish stigma, but 

 no apical spot ; legs yellowish. In general structure similar to M . sayi. 

 Expanse 22-34 mm. 



From Lake Worth and Kissimmee, Florida, the former 

 from Mrs. A. T. Slosson. 



Mantispa brunnea, var. occideiitis n. var. 



Similar to M. brunnea, but the wings are much less marked 

 with brown ; there is a distinct black band at base of the an- 

 tennae ; a black band on vertex ; a black band on front of the 

 pronotum, and behind the anterior fourth it is wholly dark ; 

 meso- and metascutelli yellow, the femora are blackish. 



From Wawawai, Washington (Mann): Ormsby County, 

 Nevada (Baker), and Chimney Gulch, Golden, Colorado 

 (Oslar). 



MYRMELEONID^. 



Brachynemurvis pulcliellus n. sp. 



Head pale ; a large black interantennal mark, leaving a small pale 

 spot each side above the antennae ; a transverse black line on the ver- 

 tex, enlarged in the middle to inclose a small dot, and a dull black 

 mark each side behind ; antennas pale, annulate with black, basal joint 

 wholly whitish ; palpi tipped with black ; pronotum black, with a pale 

 median stripe, broadest in front, and nearly interrupted in middle, a 

 spot each side in front, and a stripe each side behind, widest behind ; 

 thorax dark, lined with pale, metanotum with a broad pale stripe each 

 side, the scutellum with two pale dots, a few black bristles and long 

 white hairs on the thorax ; legs pale, dotted with black, forming bands 

 at apex of femora, middle and tip of tibiae, and tips of tarsal joints, 

 all with long white hairs, and shorter black bristles : abdomen black ; 

 segments near tip marked with pale in middle. Wings hyaline, vena- 

 tion black and white, many cross-veins margined with fuscous, others 

 snow-white, stigma black, gradate series margined with dark ; hind 

 wings scarcely marked, but the venation black and white. Wings 

 rather narrow, fore pair scarcely acute at tips, hind pair very plainly 

 so, three cross-veins before radial sector in fore wings, two in hind 

 wings, about seven branches of the radial sector, four or five cross- 

 veins between anal vein and cubital fork in fore wings. 



Expanse 30 mm. 



From Brown, California, 10 October (Grinnell). Diflfers 

 from B. barberi in pale femora, in marked metanotum, and 

 in spot each side on pronotum ; the head and thorax are dif- 

 ferently marked from B. pnsillus. 



