the British Neuroptera-Planijjennia. 191 



Icenoides, Steph. 111. vi. 100, pi. xxiii. fig, 1. Drepanop- 

 teryx plialcenoides, Burm. Handb. ii. 975 ; Brauer, Neurop. 

 Aust. 65. Megalomus phalcenoides, Ramb. Nevrop. 418. 



Dull ochreous, scarcely pubescent, the head bright 

 ochreous; the whole of the under-surface of the body 

 paler. 



Antennce fuscescent, ochreous at the base ; palpi 

 ochreous. 



Legs ochreous. 



Anterior wings opaque, testaceous, a whitish wedge- 

 shaped spot on the middle of the dorsal margin strongly 

 margined with fuscous ; transverse costal fuscous streaks, 

 the disk slightly reticulated with fuscous, two narrow 

 transverse fuscous fasciae including the gradate veinlets, 

 and a longitudinal fuscous streak running from the inner 

 series into the apex, a fuscous spot on the disc, rather 

 towards the base ; apical sinuations with a narrow whitish 

 margin ; dorsal margin fuscous, especially at the base : 

 posterior tvings sub-hyaline, slightly testaceous, especially 

 at the apex. 



Length of body 4 lines; expanse of wings 13-16 lines. 



Very rare. A few specimens have been taken in the 

 North of England and South of Scotland. I possess one 

 example recently taken at Windermere by Mr. Strouvelle. 



Family II. CONIOPTBRYGID^. 



Antennce short, hairy. Maxillary palpi with the four 

 first joints short and nearly equal, the terminal joint long 

 and slender, Lahial palpi with two small basal joints, 

 and a large broad and compressed terminal. Ocelli ab- 

 sent. Wings equal or unequal ; in the anterior ivings not 

 more than two costal veinlets, one at the base, the other 

 at the apex; costal area very narrow; sub-costa parallel 

 with the costa ; the radius runs parallel with the sub-cos- 

 ta, and emits two sectors, which fork before joining the 

 margin ; transverse discal veinlets very few, margins not 

 visibly ciliated.* 



Legs moderately long; first joint of the tarsi long, the 

 three next short and somewhat cordate, the fifth short and 

 slender ; ungues simple. 



* Under a high power, the margins and veins shew a few moderately 

 strong hairs, and similar but shorter hairs are sparingly distributed over 

 the membrane. 



