the British Neuroptera-Planipennia, 183 



Common throughout the summer^ especially in firs 

 and yews. 



Excessively variable, and presenting numerous con- 

 ditions which I have found it impossible to separate, 

 either as distinct varieties or specific forms ; the long 

 and narrow wings seem to present the best character, 

 together with the absence of distinct black or blackish 

 spots. 



All the types in Stephens^ collection of irroratus, 

 stigma, and suhfasciatus, and many of those placed under 

 pi7ii, appear to belong to this species. In the " Ento- 

 mologist's Annual " for 1858, Dr. Hagen has grouped 

 many of these names as synonyms of what he describes 

 as phaleratus, Hofimansegg. This last is only a Mu- 

 seum name ; the original description is by Schneider, 

 in the " Arbeit. Schlesich. Gesells." 1846. I am quite 

 unable to apply his description with certainty, though 

 there can be little doubt that the species intended must 

 be either limhatus, or one of the closely allied species. 

 In the "Synopsis synonymica" Hagen gives fasciatus 

 of Gozsy as a synonym of phaleratus, but tyj^es of the 

 latter sent by Brauer do not accord with the descriptions 

 of the former. 



9. Hemerobius pini, Stephens. 



Hemerohius pini (Leach), Steph. 111. vi. Ill (1836). 

 H. punctatus, Gozsy, Sitz. Akad. Wiss. 1852, p. 346, ?. 



Yellowish testaceous, shining ; the face, sides of the 

 pro- and meso- thorax, and the greater part of the meta- 

 thorax brown, with pale hairs ; the prothorax longer than 

 in the allied species, the posterior angles produced 

 strongly downwards, obtuse and dilated, with a tuft of 

 long hairs at the tips ; antennce yellow, with close 

 blackish annulations. 



Abdomen (?) fuscescent, with a yellow lateral line. 



Legs yellowish ; the terminal joint of the tarsi fusces- 

 cent. 



Wings somewhat elongate, oval, longly elliptical at 

 the apex : anterior pair testaceous, the apical and dorsal 

 margins darker ; two broad blackish fuscous transverse 

 fasciae along the gradate veinlets, scarcely reaching the 

 dorsal margin, the inner one is more or less connected 

 at its lower end with a basal blotch, forming an ab- 

 breviated fascia ; the outer fascia is generally formed 



