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PSYCHE. 



[December, icjoi 



second on radial nervure in {similis they 

 are equal), and in the narrower head. 

 Halktiis veganus, n. sp. — 



9. Length about 6 mm., bra.ssj green, 

 including the abdomen ; legs black. This 

 is ver^- like //. ruidofcnsis, and has the more 

 or less coppery or br issv tint on the supra- 

 clvpeal area, but it is certainly a distinct spe- 

 cies, presenting the following distinctive 

 characters: — inner orbital margins less con- 

 cave; basal area of metathorax much longer, 

 and irregularly cancellate all over, especially 

 at the sides ; abdomen green (occasionally 

 this is scarcely perceptible), with the first 

 segment minutely transversely lineolate, with 

 mite numerous if minute punctures; third 

 submarginal cell narrower above. In both, 

 the hind spur of hind tibia is pectiniite with 

 few teeth. The wings are faintly dusky, and 

 the stigma is light brown. 



7 females, June 27. 



region, these white spots margin similar 

 spots on the otherwise brown veins, and they 

 are arranged in transverse series ; there area 

 few of these spots beyond the outer gradate 

 series. A darker brown band across both 

 series of gradate series, and a large spot at 

 the connection between the cubitus and post- 

 cubitus. Hind wings hyaline, veins brown. 

 Around the margin of both pairs there are 

 many brown dots, ojie between and one at 

 the end of each veinlet; there are no white 

 spots on the margin. The wings are moder- 

 ately narrow, not much swollen on costa at 

 base; three sectors, the first branch of the 

 first connected back to radius twice; the post- 

 cubitus bent toward tlie cubitus, so that the 

 connecting veinlets are of unequal length. 

 Male appendages with a lower and a median 

 projectioi', the latter bifid at tip. 

 Length, 10 mm. 



One specimen from top of Las Vegas 

 range, New Mexico. 



NEUROPTEROID INSECTS. 



BY NATHAN BANKS. 



Both of the two Neuropteroid insects 

 collected at the top of the Las Vegas 

 range in New Mexico appear to be un- 

 described ; both belong to genera hav- 

 ing many species in northern and boreal 

 regions. One belongs to the Neurop- 

 tera, the other to the Trichoptera. 



Hemerobiid^. 

 Hcfiterobms cockerelli n. sp. 



Head pale yellowish, darker across base of 

 clypeus ; antennae pale yellowish, not band- 

 ed; thorax pale yellowish, with abroad brown 

 stripe on each side, not as plain behind as on 

 the prothorax ; abdomen pale at base, darker 

 beyond ; legs pale ; fore-wings pale brown, 

 with many white spots through the middle 



LiMNOPHILIDAE. 



Asynarchus costciUs w. sp. 



Face yellowish; palpi yellowish, slender; 

 vertex reddish yellow, ocelli small, posterior 

 and anterior tubercles subequal in size ; an- 

 tennae long and slender, reaching beyond end 

 of wings, 3 ellowish on base, darker beyond, 

 the basal joints about one-half their diameter 

 apart, and as long as the face, the outer and 

 inner sides each marked w ith a broad brown 

 stripe; legs slender, pale yellowish, spines 

 black, spurs 1-3-4, ^''^t tarsal joint of $ 

 long, few- spines on tibia I, one at tip of 

 femur I.; thorax with a brown stripe each 

 side. Fore-wings quite long, rounded at tip 

 and on apical margin, the surface minutely 

 granulate, sparsely clothed with short yellow 

 hair, black hair near posterior margin ; the 

 basal costal area is hyaline, beyond and be- 

 hind is brown, with many small pale spots; 

 larger pale spots in bases of all apical cells 



