APPENDIX. S09 



Inhabits North-west Territory. 



*S.ntennse fuscous ; vertex and neck hairy ; thorax on 

 each side before the wings, and two dorsal series, hairy ; 

 superior wings nearly hyaline; beyond the middle a large 

 fuscous circle from which a dilated line proceeds to the 

 tip, another to the inferior angle, a third to the carpal spot, 

 and a fourth towards the base, interrupted in its middle ; 

 dorsal margin, particularly towards the base, fuscous ; sur- 

 face with scattered hairs, those of the nervures more dis- 

 tinct and blackish ; tibia and tarsi with black setae. 



Leng*\ to tip of wings seven-tenths of an inch. 



3. P. sericea. Blackish, sericeous; wings varied with 

 fuscous and sericeous. 



Inhabits North-west Territory. 



Head with a cinereous gloss, and a few long hairs ; an- 

 tennx brown, incisures margined with yellowish ; basal 

 joint colour of the head ; thorax with a cinereous gloss in 

 a particular light ; superior wings varied with pruinose 

 and fuscous ; a transverse, quadrate, blackish spot on the 

 middle of the inner margin ; hairs numerous, minute, those 

 of the nervures larger and black ; inferior wings immacu- 

 late ; posterior pairs of feet pale ochreous, sericeous, with 

 black setae. 



Length to tip of wings more than two-fifths of an inch. 



MANTISPA, Illig. Latr. 



M. brunnea. Light brown ; antennae fuscous, light brown 

 at the extremity ; wings with a very broad, brown margin. 



Inhabits United States. 



% Antennse short ; posterior and inferior orbits yellow ; 

 thorax, first segment obtusely wrinkled, or undulated, an- 

 terior margin black, submargin yellow ; base black, with a 



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