No. 3. New Neuropteroid Insects. 

 BY NATHAN BANKS. 



IN the course of identifying the Neuropteroid insects in the Museum 

 numerous new species were found; some of these are herewith de- 

 scribed. In several cases Dr. Hagen had given manuscript names, 

 and in a few cases these have been published, as the South American 

 species in the appendix to his Synopsis of the Neuroptera of North 

 America. Wherever possible I have retained his manuscript name. 



PSOCIDAE. 



PSOCUS ALBOVARIUS, sp. UOV. 



TYPE. M. C. Z. 10,780. Straits Settlements: Singapore (C. F. 

 Baker). 



Head whitish, ocelli on a black spot, a dark median spot on vertex, and one 

 below ocelli; nose faintly lineate with dark; antennae pale; thorax pale, with 

 three large dark spots above in front; abdomen pale, darker at tip; legs 

 whitish. Wings lightly fumose, except at base; stigma white, with a dark 

 central spot; veins dark, stigmal vein white, veins at corners of the discal cell, 

 the lower side of cell, the median vein shortly before cell and just beyond cell, 

 and the forking of the radial sector prominently white; hind wings hyaline, 

 venation pale. Discal cell much narrowed below, sides nearly straight; 

 areola postica very long and low, its upper side a, little longer than the outer 

 side; posterior cells subequal; fork of radial sector more than twice as long 

 as the pedicel; median vein and radial sector united for short distance; stigma 

 of medium size, about its length before tip of wing, nearly right-angled behind. 



Length to tip of wing 3.6 mm. 



Psocus SIMHARIS, sp. nov. 



TYPE. M. C. Z. 10,779. Straits Settlements: Singapore (C. F. 

 Baker). 



Head brown, with a few small black spots and lines, one back of the ocelli; 

 nose lined with black; antennae brown on basal part, beyond black, with some 

 long hairs; thorax pale, a large black spot on each lateral lobe, and two spots 

 on the anterior lobe; legs pale, tibiae and tarsi darker, abdomen dark, a white 



