36 Mr. R. M'Lachlan on the Neuropterous 



semicircular, very slightly produced in the middle. Two 

 bright red lines on the thorax above ; the sides reddish, with 

 two short black streaks, one under the base of each wing ; 

 there is also an appearance of two lines paler than the ground- 

 colour. Legs bright red, with black spines ; the tips of the 

 tarsal joints black. Abdomen bright blood-red ; a quadrate 

 black spot above at the base of the first segment ; the sutures 

 of all the segments with a black ring ; on the sides a black 

 subapical line, commencing at the apex of segment 6, continuous 

 on segment 7, and nearly so on segment 8, but not there reach- 

 ing the margins ; segment 10 excised in the middle above ; 

 superior appendages short, only slightly exserted, subtrian- 

 gular, red, with a black tubercle internally ; inferior appen- 

 dages somewhat forcipate, long, red, with the tips black and 

 pointed. Wings hyaline, narrow ; veins black, slightly 

 reddish at the base ; pterostigma reddish brown (yellowish in 

 immature examples), in the form of an irregular lozenge, the 

 upper edge much longer than the lower, surmounting one cel- 

 lule ; in the anterior wings the upperside of the quadrilateral 

 is more than one half shorter than the lower, in the posterior 

 wings about one third shorter ; thirteen to fourteen post- 

 cubital nervules in the anterior wings ; three cellules between 

 the quadrilateral and the nodus. 



Female. All the markings of the head and thorax that are 

 red in the male are here yellow ; the base of the labrum has a 

 distinct black line ; on the prothorax there are only two spots 

 instead of three. Legs yellowish, the femora fuscous above. 

 Abdomen bronzy black above, pale yellowish beneath ; 

 segments 1-6 above with a yellow half-ring at the base of 

 each ; appendages short, conical, blackish ; vulvar valves 

 yellow, the terminal appendages black. 



I have examined several males and females of this species. 



17. Telebasis sobrina, n. sp. 



3 . T. zealandicce valde affinis, sed major ; appendices superiores 

 multo longiores, inferioribus dimidio tantum breviores. Long, 

 corp. 18'", long, abdom. 15'" ; exp. alar. 22"', long, alae postic. 

 10*"'. 



Very closely allied to T. zealandica, but considerably larger ; 

 on the abdomen the basal spot at the base of segment 1 is 

 divided ; the superior appendages are much exserted, scarcely 

 one half shorter than the inferior, sub triangular, the lower 

 edge concave, hence the tips are much curved downward (the 

 black tubercle is present as in T. zealandica). There are four 

 cellules between the quadrilateral and the nodus in all the 



