196 Mr. F. Walker's Characters of undescrihed Neuroptera 



fuscis, punctis sub-costalibus nigris, posticis cupreo-fuscis 

 macula limpida costali sub-apicali. 



Male. — Piceous : head tliickly clotlied with black hairs, tes- 

 taceous above; antennae red, with black rings, almost wholly 

 black towards the tips, pilose towards the base, much longer than 

 the body ; thorax pilose, with a very broad testaceous stripe ; ab- 

 domen deep red above ; legs ferruginous ; fore-wings vitreous, 

 brownish at the base, with a brown apical spot, and with two 

 brown sub-apical dots, one on the costa, the other on the hind 

 border; a row of sub-costal black points; hind-wings cupreous 

 brown, with a limpid costal sub-apical spot ; hind border dilated 

 and forming a rounded angle. 



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



Allied to A. subiratus. 



South America. 



Ascalaplius suhlugens. 



Mas. — Piceus, capite pilis densis cinereis,antennis nigris corpore 

 non brevioribus apices versus rufescentibus, abdomine vitta 

 dorsali rufa, pedibus ferrugineis, alis sub-cinerascentibus, 

 venis nigris, alis anticis stigmate testaceo, alis posticis margine 

 postico plaga sub-apicali punctisque costalibus fuscis, stigmate 

 nigro. 



Male. — Piceous; head thickly clothed with dark cinereous hairs ; 

 antennae black, mostly reddish towards the tips, as long as the 

 body ; thorax pilose ; abdomen much shorter than the wings, with 

 a red dorsal stripe, which is obsolete towards the tip ; legs ferru- 

 ginous ; wings slightly greyish ; veins black ; fore-wings with a 

 testaceous stigma ; hind-wings with brown points along the costa, 

 brown along the hind border, and with a dark brown sub-apical 

 patch ; stigma black. 



Length of the body 9 lines; of the wings 22 lines. 



This species is probably South American, and is allied to A. 

 Surinamensis, and to A. inhonestus ; it also resembles A. llmbatus. 



Ascalaplius intractahilis. 



Foem. — Ferrugineus, robustus, albido-pilosus, antennis nigris 



corpore vix brevioribus, abdomine breviusculo maculis in- 



distinctis testaceis, femoribus tibiisque posticis testaceis, alis 



longis vitreis, vitta exteriore interrupta informi. 



Female. — Ferruginous, stout : head and thorax clothed with 



whitish hairs ; head clothed with black hairs in front ; antennae 



