Neuroplerous Family Nemopteridse. 461 



Section 3. 



Hind wings long, more or less expanded two or three times towards the 

 tips, and with two blackish bands on the expanded portion. 



The British Museum possesses no species belonging to this 

 section, to which I refer H. gracilis with a little doubt. 



16. Halter gracilis. 

 ills, Ha 



Hah. Cape. 



Nemoptera gracilis, Hagen, Proc. Boston Soc. Nat. Hist, xxiii. p. 255 

 (1886> 



17. Halter barbara. 



Nemoptera barbara, King, Abhandl. Akad. Berl. 1836, p. 94. n. 5 ; 



Selys, Ann. Soc. Ent. Belg. x. p. 254, pi. ii. figs. 3, 4 (1887) ; Hagen, 



Proc. Boston Soc. Nat. Hist, xxiii. p. 255. n. 6 (188G). 

 Nematoptera barbara, Westw. Proc. Zool. Soc. Lond. 1841, p. 11. n. 7; 



Ann. & Mag. Nat. Hist. viii. p. 578. n. 7. 

 \Panorpa halterata, Fabricius, Ent. Syst., Suppl. p. 208. n. 8 (1798). 

 Nemoptera alqirica, Rambur, Ins. Nevr. p. 33(3 (1842} ; Luc. Expl. 



Alg. iii. p. 139, pi. iii. fig. 3 (1849). 



Hab. Algeria. 



18. Halter Ledereri. 



Nemoptera Ledereri, Selys, Ann. Soc. Ent. Belg. x. p. 254, pi. ii. 

 figs. 1, 2 (1887) ; Hagen, Proc. Boston Soc. Nat. Hist, xxiii. p. 254. 

 n. 5 (1886). 



Hab. Asia Minor. 



Section 4. 



Hind wings less thau twice as long as the fore wings, with two large 

 black dilatations and a short white terminal process. 



19. Halter dilatata. 



Nemoptera dilatata, Klug, Abhandl. Akad. Berl. 1836, p. 94. n. 6, fig. 1. 

 Nematoptera dilatata, Westw. Proc. Zool. Soc. Lond. 1841, p. 11. n. 5 ; 

 Ann. & Mag. Nat. Hist. viii. p. 378. n. 5 (1842). 



Hab. S. Africa. 



Section 5. 



Hind wings less than twice as long as the fore wings, with a wide dark 

 dilatation towards the extremity, which is formed by a broad lobe, 

 rounded at the extremity, white at the base and dark beyond. 



*20. Halter externa. 

 Nemoptera extensa, Oliv. Enc. Me"th. viii. p. 178. n. 4 (1811); Guer, 

 Ann. & Mag. N. Hist. Ser. 7. Vol. vi. b'l 



