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Neuroptera collected in Algeria by the Rev. A. E. Eaton. 159 
ASCALAPHID/AL. 
Bubopsis (n. nov.*) eatoni, sp. n. 
Black ; head and thorax clothed with very dense white pilosity, 
in which is a tuft of black hairs on the posterior edge of the vertex 
between the eyes, and a row of black hairs on the front part of the 
mesonotum ; labrum and clypeus pale yellow (the rest of the head 
above concealed in the pilosity), back of head pale yellow, with a 
semicircular fuliginous mark on either side : antennze much shorter 
than the wings, blackish (not annulated), but pale yellow before the 
broad flattened club which latter is yellow in its basal and blackish 
in its apical half; pronotum pale yellow ; mesonotum black with 
large yellow spots, whereof two on the scutellum are conspicuous ; 
legs black, the femora beneath and the tibize externally pale yellow, 
femora and tibize clothed with white pilosity, and with longer blackish 
spines on the tibize and tarsi, spurs and claws blackish piceous : 
abdomen black with a cinereous tinge, a yellowish spot on each side 
of the posterior margin of each segment, a yellow lateral line, 
beneath there is a yellow spot on each side of the first segment 
and the margins and posterior edge of the second are also broadly 
yellow ; appendages of the ¢ long (6.5 mm.), subcylindrical, gradually 
divergent from the base, and again convergent towards the apex, 
enclosing a very broad oval space, the apices slightly outcurved and 
applied one against the other, beneath at about half its length each 
appendage emits a long (4 mm.), slender, cylindrical branch, directed 
downward and backward, the opposing branches touching at the 
tips, and there slightly thickened ; on the superior outer edge of 
each appendage beyond the middle is a geniculation, which is pro- 
duced into a distinct (about 2 mm.) short stout cylindrical branch, 
curved slightly inward, and provided with black teeth at its obtuse 
apex ; in colour the appendages are for the most part yellow, but 
black above and externally in the basal half and the tips of the 
branches are also black, they are clothed with short spinose hairs, 
which are very dense on the inner apices, and each appendage has 
also a dense inner fringe of fine white hairs in its basal half, 
Wings moderately broad, hyaline, the wing-roots yellowish ; 
neuration black, but the costal margin, the subcosta, and the sector 
radii (the latter indistinctly) are whitish, the subcosta with a short 
black streak at the base of each of the costal nervules (a few of these 
latter are whitish towards the base) ; 23 costal nervules in the an- 
terior, and 19 in the posterior wings ; 6 and 5 cellules before origin 
of the sector radii, 5 branches to the latter, of which the first is 
* Bubopsis = Bubo, Rambur (1842 restricted), preoceupied in Aves. 
