MECOPTERA AND PLANIPENNIA 
Episalus zephyrinus Gerstaecker. 
(Plate 2, fig. 9, ©). 
Gerstaecker, Mitt. Naturw. Ver. Neu-Vorpomm. und Rügen, XVI, p. 20 
(1884). Duke of York Island. 
Though this curious and beautiful species is hitherto 
only known from Duke of York Island and German New 
Guinea, no doubt it will also occur in Dutch New Guinea. 
Antennae black, the two basal joints brown, about as 
long as thorax and head together, apex only a little dilated. 
Head not very broad; underside, mouthparts and labrum 
yellow to brown. Vertex and dorsum of the body earth- 
brown, without any pattern except an inconspicuous trace 
of a yellowish median line on the pronotum. Breast pale 
yellowish. 
Legs short and slender, yellowish, tarsi and tips of tibiae 
deep black, with short black spines. Tibiae pale yellow, 
femora of the same colour, the anterior however with a 
broad black interior line, the median wholly black, the 
posterior are more slender and pale yellowish. The spurs 
are black, nearly straight and as long as the four basal 
tarsal joints. 
Abdomen much shorter than the wings, equal in length 
in both sexes, without villosity, earthbrown above, paler 
beneath, the basal segment yellow like the breast. 
The gonopoda are very short and inconspicuous. 
Wings hyaline, nervature white and very dense, the 
forewing broad with broad tips and spotted with many 
very small, brown atoms which form two indistinct rows 
in the costalfield of the forewing. There also is a remark- 
able brown margin at the hindborder of the forewing, which 
comes from the base and goes to the junction of postcosta 
and ramus obliquus, where it finishes in a black point. It 
is connected with the black shoulders by the black analvein 
and its branches. There is a black streak at the tip of both 
wings, which is longer in the hindwing and separated in 
Notes from the Leyden Museum, Vol. XX XI. 
