610 Mr. W. F. Kirby on Neuroptera 



I describe below an allied species from the Amazons which 

 was not found by Mr. Austen : — 



[Mtcrathi/ria tibialis, sp. n. 

 (PL Xlll. fig. 5 c?,fig. 6 ?.) 



Long. Corp. 23-25 millim. ; exp. al. 40-42 raillim. ; long, 

 pter. 2 millim. 



Male. — Face yellow, tips of mandibles black, antennal 

 tubercle and middle of vertex metallic blue-green. Thorax 

 metallic blue-green ; pleura yellow, witli three metallic 

 oblique bands ; front of mesothorax with a bifid yellow mark 

 on each side, conterminous with the yellow front of the 

 pleura ; interalary space pulverulent blue. Abdomen black, 

 less thickened at base and tip than in M. eximia, with long 

 lateral testaceous spots on segments 3-G, and the spots on 

 segment 7 barely separated by the narrow black carina ; anal 

 appendages testaceous, black above at the base. Legs black, 

 front femora yellow beneath ; hind tibiae and sometimes a 

 line on the others rufo-testaceous. Wings as in 31. eximia, 

 except tliat the marginal row of post-triangular cells is formed 

 of four cells instead of tliree. 



Female (apparently immature) with the antennal tubercles 

 yellowish behind; thorax, pleura, and base of abdomen 

 varied with rufo-testaceous and yellowish, the hinder part of 

 the thorax with a mere trace of metallic colouring above ; 

 abdomen blackish brown, except at base, with the pale spots 

 larger than in the male ; anal appendages testaceous ; legs 

 blackish above, and mostly testaceous beneath, like tiie 

 greater part of the underside of the body ; hind tibia? testa- 

 ceous. Wings as in the male, except that the pterostigma 

 is paler testaceous. 



llab. Santarem [Bates). 



Closely allied to M. eximiai] 



Micrathyria hasalis, sp. n. (PI. XIL tig. L) 



Long. Corp. 25 millim.; exp. al. 38 millim. ; long. pter. 

 2 millim. 



Male. — Face blackish or deep reddish brown, sometimes 

 with the mentum narrowly bordered before and behind with 

 yellow ; clypeus metallic blue, with a pale yellow spot on 

 each side ; antennal tubercle metallic blue, bordered with 

 yellow behind ; occiput black, the hinder orbits mostly yellow ; 

 thorax and pleura brownish yellow, speckled with black, the 

 sutures and carina? brown ; two or three brown or blackish 

 spots on the pleura under the fore wings ; interalary space 



