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PSYCHE 
[August 
THREE NEW SPECIES OF NEUROPTERA. 
BY NATHAN BANKS, EAST FALLS CHURCH, VA. 
New species of the true Xeuroptera are not abundant in our country, and 
the three following species represent recent additions to my collection. The 
Allochrysa is one of the largest and most elegant of our Chrysopidae; while 
the Panorpa is interesting, since it shows the value of the male genitalia. By 
the wing-markings this species resembles two of our most common forms, 
but the genitalia show that it is related to a different section of the genus. 
With these three new species I have added new names for three old species, two 
of which had preoccupied names, and the other based on a mis-identification. 
Allochrysa arisonica n. sp. 
Plead pale greenish yellow, cheeks rufous, last joint of palpi marked with 
a red band; an angulate red band just above antennal sockets from eye to eye. 
Thora.x greenish yellow, a red spot on each anterior corner of the prothorax, 
and an angulate red band on the front part of mesothorax from wing to wing; 
abdomen brownish, discolored, bases of ventral segments paler ; legs pale 
yellowish, the claws reddish. Wings hyaline, venation pale greenish, the bases of 
the cross-veins between the radius and sector blackish, the gradate series dark, 
and some of the cross-veins in basal part of wing more or less dark ; hind 
wings pale, venation pale ; the pterostigma brown, much more prominent than 
in the fore wings. 
Expanse 52 mm. 
One specimen from Palmerlee, Arizona (Biedermanj. Differs from 
A. virgiuica in red bands on head and thorax, and in absence of dark spot at 
end of cubitus in fore wings. 
Chrysopa majiiscula n. n. 
I propose this new name for my Chrysopa crythrocephala, which name is 
preoccupied by Leach for an European species. 
Chrysopa injusta n. n. 
I propose this name to replace my Chrysopa inarginalis; Father 
