1913] Neuropterous Genus Palpares. 177 



Palpares gigas Dalman. 



Figure— Plate XIX, Figure 17, and Drury, PI. 41. 



The fourth anal of f. w. with three or four branches and three 

 cross-veins; the third anal in h. w. has a strong oblique vein up to sec- 

 ond anal. Male appendages nearly twice as long as the last two 

 segments together. 



Palpares moestus Hag. 



Figure — Plate XIX, Figure 15; Hagen, Mozambique paper. 



The fourth anal in f. w. with four or five branches and five or more 

 cross-veins; the third anal of h. w. practically runs into the second, 

 and with two or three cross-veins before it. The antennee are longer 

 than in P. gigas; the thorax with long white hair. Anal appendages 

 of male. Fig. 55. 



Palpares obscuripennis Schmidt. 

 In general this resembles a very large P. spectrum but the fore 

 wings are plainly tinged with pink; the pale basal part of hind wings is 

 milky and the black has no complete pale bands, but median and 

 stigmal pale bands reaching one-half way across wing, two spots near 

 apex, and two to four near the hind border. 



Fig. 1. Palpares obscuripennis Schmidt. 



I have seen it only in the Stettin (type) and Berlin Museums. 

 It may be the P. fulvus McLach; but I was not able to find 

 McLachlan's type in his collection nor elsewhere. 



Palpares martini Weele. 



Figure — Van der Weele, Madagascar, Figure 3. 



This species resembles P. walkeri, and in that species the 

 apical mark sometimes almost connects to the stigmal band. 



