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men brownish : superior appendices long, broad, flattened, the 

 apex acuminate and turned under, pubescent : inferior appen- 

 dices long, two-jointed, the basal joint very short, broad, and 

 with a rounded tubercle at the base, above ; second joint very 

 abruptly turned inwards at an acute angle with the first joint, 

 long, claw-shaped, the tips being black, curved, and acute : 

 ventral plate (last ventral segment) nearly quadrate, but with 

 the apical margin broadly and shallowly excised. Legs — fe- 

 mora yellow ; tibias and tarsi blackish, brownish internally, 

 with yellow pubescence. 



Wings hyaline, with a very slight greyish or fuscous tinge : 

 in the anterior wings the costal veinlets and almost all the 

 transverse veinlets are thickened and black; longitudinal 

 veins yellow, the costa, subcosta, and radius being somewhat 

 brownish : posterior w^ngs with the costal veinlets and those 

 between the radius and sector black, neuration otherwise 

 yellow. 



I have seen two males of this species, which is most nearly 

 allied to N. testaceus, Rambur, but differs in the colour of the 

 legs and in the appendices. 



List of described Species q/'Neuromus. 



N. grandis, Thunberg. 



Hemerobius grandis, Thbg. Nov. Ins. Sp. pt. 1. p. 28, fig. 44 (1781), 

 Hermes costalis, Walker, Cat. Brit. Mus. Neurop. p. 207 (1853). 

 H. anticus, Walk. op. cit. p. 205 $ (1853). 



Japan, China. 



N. mfectus, M'Lachlan, ante, p. 41. 

 Darjeeling. 



N. hierogli/jjhicus, Rambur. 



Neuronitis hieroglyphicus, Ramb. N^vrop. p. 442 (1842). Hermes hiero- 

 glyphicus, Walk. Cat. Brit. Mus. ISeurop. p. 206. Corydulis hiero- 

 glyphica, Hag. Neiirop. N. Arner. p. 194, 



Central America, Brazil. 



N. corripienSj Walker. 

 Hermes corripiens, Walk, Trans. Ent. Soc. Lond. new ser. vol. v. p. 180 



(1860), 

 Brazil. 



N. 10-macidatus, Walker. 



Hermes lO-maculatus, Walk. Trans. Ent. Soc. Lond. new ser. vol. v. 

 p. 180 (1860). 



Brazil (?) or India (?). 



