^909-] J- G- Needham : Notes on the Neuroptera. iqy 



HOLOPHTHALMI. 



Idricerus decrepilus, Walk. — Two specimens, Dehra Dun,- base 

 of W. Himalayas, United Provinces, and the N.-E. Frontier of 

 India {Godwin- Austen). 



Abronius, gen. nov. 



Eyes undivided, body hairy, wings widest just before the 

 middle, the front wings broader than the hind, and with a basal 

 tooth that is penetrated by a branching vein : the area included in 

 the cubital fork is wider than the area that lies in front of the 

 cubital vein. The oblique vein that indicates the base of the hinder 

 branch of the median vein is in the fore wing situated just before 

 the base of the radial sector and just beyond the cubital fork. The 



s FiG. I. — wings of AbroHius canescens, Ndm. 



tibial spurs are as long as the three basal segments of the tarsus, 

 the four basal segments are subequal and together hardly as long 

 as the fifth, or as long as the claws. 

 Type, the following species: — 



Abronius canescens, sp. nov. 



A single incomplete specimen in the Indian Museum collection 

 from Quetta, Baluchistan (Webb-Ware) (Reg. No. -^ V ^). 



Expanse of wings 54 mm. A pale greyish and tawny species 

 with hoary vestiture. Face yellow, clothed with brown- tipped hairs, 

 and with a tuft of longer whitish hairs arising between the bases of 

 the antennae. Behind the head several erect fringes of stiff hairs 

 arise in transverse lines from the front of the thorax. Wings 



