the British Neuropteixt-Tlanipennia. Vll 



Section 2. Three sectors in the anterior wings. 

 (PI. X. figs. 1, 5) . 



2. Hembrobius pellucidus. Walker. 



Jlemerohius pellucidtis, (Dale), Walk. Brit. Mus. Cat. 

 284 (1853); M^Lach. Ent. Mo. Mag. ii. 269. H. fusces- 

 cens, Walleng. Ofv. 1864, p. 22. 



Shining, blackish fuscous, with very few pale hairs; 

 thorax and abdomen paler, the latter somewhat ochreoua 

 beneath. 



Legs pale dull yellowish. 



Wings rather elongate, obtuse, very pale grayish, iri- 

 descent ; anterior wings with the gradate veinlets clouded 

 with dai'ker gray; pterostigma brownish; neuration (in 

 all the wings) wholly pale fuscous ; three sectors ; four 

 gradate veinlets in the outer series ; five in the inner, 

 with two interstices between the first and second, the three 

 others in a line, and placed between the two upper ones 

 and the outer series ; three towards the base (PL X. fig. 1) : 

 posterior wings with one or two discal transverse veinlets. 



Length of body 2-3 lines ; expanse of wings 4-6^ lines. 



I have not seen this insect alive, nor can I find a male 

 with the appendices in a condition for describing. 



Taken by Mr. Dale, sparingly, at Glan villas Woojton, 

 Dorset. 



In size and general appearance it resembles pale ex- 

 amples of H. elegans, but differs in having three sectors, 

 and in the unspotted veins. 



Wallengren's description appears to apply to the 

 species, but I have not seen his type. 



3. Hemeeobius inconspicuus, n. s. 



Head wholly black; aw^ewwce blackish-fuscous. 



Thorax shining pitchy brown, paler in the middle. 



Abdomen dull brownish. In the S the last segment 

 above ends in two short blackish points ; the last ven- 

 tral segment is produced into a long lobe, gradually nar- 

 rowed, the apex obtuse, and strongly curved upwards 

 and inwards, concave at the base internally (PL X. fig. 2). 

 In the $ the apex of the abdomen is obtuse. 



Legs pale. 



TRANS. ENT. SOC. 1868. PART II. (jULY). N 



