216 NEUROPTERA OF NORTH AMERICA. 



15. Ch. lateralis. 



Hemerobius lateralis Guer. Iconogr. R6gn. Anim. Ins. p. 388. Schueid. 

 Monog. Chrys. 162, 6. Chrysopa lateralis Walk. Catal. 274, 86. 



Bright green ; antennae longer than the body, blackish-fuscous, 

 the basal article rufous; head anteriorly at the margins of the eyes, 

 and sides of the prothorax with a line, rufous ; veins of the wings 

 green; feet green, tarsi fulvous. (From the description of Guerin.) 



Length to tip of wings IT millim. Alar expanse 30 millim. 



Hob. Yera Cruz (Saulcy). 



16. Ch. conformis ! 



Chrysopa conformis Walk. Catal. 269, 74. 



Testaceous; antennas longer than the wings, blackish at base; 

 feet pale ; abdomen testaceous ; wings hyaline, pterostigma testa- 

 ceous, veins green, some of them black. (From the description of 

 Walker.) 



Length to tip of wings IT millim. Alar expanse 30 millim. 



Hob. Jamaica (Gosse) ; Cuba; St. Thomas; Mexico (Deppe). 



Perhaps a specimen from Jamaica (Cuming; Vienna Museum), 

 belongs here ; but the antennas are destroyed ; the basal article i 

 testaceous ; the prothorax is margined anteriorly with rufous. 

 Does it possibly belong to Chrysopa transversa ? 



17. Ch. pavida ! 



Chrysopa pavida Hagen ! 



Pale, whitish-yellow; occiput truncated behind ; antennoa long, 

 black ; the basal article large, yellow, above with a longitudinal 

 rufous spot ; the second and third articles yellowish ; prothorax 

 flat, quadrangular, anteriorly obliquely truncated, the sides nar- 

 rowly red; wings large, hyaline, pterostigma yellow; veins yellow- 

 ish ; anterior wings with the middle of the costal veins or the 

 whole of them, black ; the apex of the second sector, the gradate 

 veins (10 and 11) almost entirely, apices of the rest of the trans- 

 verse veins, and the marginal forks entirely, black ; Mnd wings 

 with the apex of the second sector, and vein of the posterior mar- 

 gin, black. 



Length to tip of wings 22 millim. Alar expanse 41 millim. 



Hob. Cordova, Mexico (Saussure, Deppe); South Carolina 

 (Zimmerman). 



