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A new species of Embia Latr. from the Crimea 

 (Neuroptera, Embiodea) *). 



(Preliminary description). 



By 



N. J. Kusnezov (St. Petersburg). 



Embia taurica, sp. n. 



Adult male. — Length of body about 8—11 mm. Head and body 

 slightly depressed, dark brown, except legs and prothorax being yel- 

 lowish-fulvous; densely covered with golden-yelloAv hairs. 



Head large, longer than broad, suMriangidar, rounded behind, 

 with rounded angles; dark brown, almost black, shining, clothed Avith 

 hairs; frontal line straight, sides almost rectilinear, slightly excurved; 

 occipital line rounded. Vertex somewhat convex: clypeal edge almost 

 rectilinear. Frontal space concave; clypeus transverse, narrow, lighter 

 in colour. 



Eyes comparatively large, but not prominent, situated just beliind 

 and below the insertions of antennae, more or less reniform in shape 



Antennae much longer than the head, pale brown, haired; the maxi- 

 mum number of their Joints is 18 (rarely 19); 1-st joint very large, 

 cylindrical, robust, dai'k brown; 2-п(1 cylindrical, shorter than the 3-rd: 

 8-Г(1 cylindrical, almost as long as 1-st; 4-th the shortest, cylindrical; 

 all following similar, suboval, almost as long as 1-st. 



Labrum large, rounded, nearly orbicular, dark brown. Mandibles 

 very strong, long, curved, yellowish, with 3 sharp apical teeth and 

 a Jnisal prominence; tips and prominences pigmented with blackish-brown. 

 Mandibles slightly asymmetrical, the teeth of the left mandible being 

 somewhat more developed. 



Maxillary palpi long, 5-jointcd: joints 2—4 cylindrical, 5-th very 

 long, pointed. Labial i)alpi 3-jointed. Submentum very large, irapezoidal. 



*) I propose to elevate tlic family Kmhiidae of authors to a suborder 

 Embiodea (see S h a r p, D. Insects. 1895, Russian translation by N. J. К u s n e- 

 zov. 1903, p. 220). 



Ri'vue Russe. U'Enloin. I!t03. № 3 4. (АоШ). 



