1 82 Mr. F. Walker's Characters of undescribed Neuroptera 



thorax hardly as long as the fore-coxte, transversely rugulose, with 

 three yellow lines, wider and with an interrupted yellow band to- 

 wards the head ; mesothorax with a yellow band in front ; sides 

 and pectus mostly yellow ; abdomen ferruginous, with a piceous 

 dorsal stripe ; sides mostly yellow ; ventral segments with yellow 

 bands; legs luteous-yellow ; fore-legs with piceous stripes; wings 

 lurid ; stigma reddish ; veins black, tawny at the base and along 

 the costa. 



Length of the body 5 lines; of the wings 10 lines. 



Genus Varnia, n. g. 



Fcem. — Corpus robustum: caput brevissimum : palpi brevissimi: 

 prothorax transversus, sub-quadratus : abdomen crassum, 

 thorace vix duplo longius : pedes simplices, inermes, sat validi : 

 alae loiigse, non latse, venis venulisque plurimis. 



Female. — Body stout, resembling that of Perla : head very 

 short, nearly as broad as the prothorax : palpi very short : pro- 

 thorax sub-quadrate, full twice broader than long ; mesothorax 

 somewhat larger than the prothorax, and than the metathorax, 

 which is well developed : abdomen thick, nearly twice longer than 

 the thorax : legs moderately stout, simple, unarmed : wings long, 

 moderately broad, space between the costa and sub-costa with 

 many transverse veinlets, which are most numerous exteriorly ; 

 radius emitting several sectors, which are parallel to each other, 

 and are connected by numerous veinlets, and thus form many 

 nearly square areolets ; space behind the cubitus with veins and 

 veinlets much like those of the forepart. 



Varnia perlo'ides. 

 Fcem. — Testacea, prothorace vitta strigisque quatuor laterali- 

 bus nigris, mesothorace at metathorace fusco-maculatis, ab- 

 domine ferrugineo, alis albidis semihyalinis, venulis transversis 

 nigricante marginatis, venis nigris basi testaceis. 

 Female. — Testaceous: slightly pilose on the sides of the thorax ; 

 prothorax with a black stripe, and with two black transverse 

 streaks on each side ; mesothorax and metathorax with a brown 

 spot on each lobe; abdomen ferruginous; wings whitish, semi- 

 hyaline ; transverse veinlets with blackish borders ; a sub-costal 

 space towards the tip of each wing without transverse veinlets, 

 and accordingly wholly pale ; veins black, testaceous towards the 

 base. 



Length of the body 10 lines; of the wings 26 lines. 

 West Australia. 



