ACADEMY OF NATURAL SCIENCES 



[From Vol. 8, 1839, pp. 9—46.] 



Descriptions of New North American NEUROPTEROTJS INSECTS, and Ob- 

 servations on some already described. 



Read July 12th, 1836. 



^SHNA Fabr. 

 f Eyes in contact above. 



1. JE. MULTiciNCTA. — Reddish-brown ; thorax -with green 

 lines and spots ; abdomen with green bands and lateral vitta. 



Inhabits Indiana. 



$ Body reddish-brown ; eyes connate, dull greenish above, 

 with a semiocellate blackish mark, and on the posterior margin 

 pale bluish, including a black line ; inferior portion tinged with 

 gray, and with several moveable internal spots; frontal vesicle 

 dull whitish, above reddish-brown, dull yellowish in the middle, 

 with a quadrate blackish spot; [10] thorax with two anterior 

 green lines, and on the pleura beneath each wing, also a green 

 oblique line, between the bases of the wings are green spots ; 

 wings immaculate, tinged with ferruginous, carpal spot fuscous;- 

 accessory membrane opaque white ; abdomen with a lateral, angu- 

 lated and almost interrupted green vitta ; segments with a double 

 green, sutural, narrow band, and in the middle of each, another 

 narrow band, excepting the three ultimate ones, on which are 

 but single sutural bands ; caudal foliaceous processes blackish, 

 somewhat dilated in the middle, gradually narrowed to each ex- 

 tremity, and rounded at tip ; feet black ; thighs rufous at base. 



Length three and three-fifths inches to tip of caudal appendices. 



The abdomen tapers gradually from the base to the tip. The 

 description is taken from a recent specimen. 



[This species, which is common throughout the United 

 States, has usually been referred to the heros of Fabricius. — Ed.] 



[This is uE. heros Fabr. Ent. Syst. Suppl. 285.— Uhler.] 



JE. Junius. — Green; abdomen brown, laterally bluish; wings 

 immaculate. 



L. Junius Drury, Vol. 1, pi. 47, fig. 5. 



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