HEMEROBIDES. 277 



Body broad, stout, greenish testaceous, hairy, testaceous be- 

 neath: head short: antennae testaceous, submoniliform, not half 

 the length of the body ; joints successively decreasing in length : 

 length of the prothorax about half its breadth ; hind segment 

 transversely semi-elliptical, with a longitudinal suture: abdomen 

 and legs testaceous: fore-wings vivid pale green, with indistinct 

 ferruginous dots and oblique stripes ; marginal region very broad 

 and convex near the base where it projects on each side of the head, 

 moderately broad towards the tip ; subcostal veinlets along the 

 greater part of the length, forked towards the costa, and connected 

 together towards the subcosta by many transverse veinlets which 

 form numerous areolets ; space between the subcosta and the radius 

 intersected at nearly equal distances by transverse veinlets which 

 generally form rectangular areolets; second sector of the radius 

 forked six times successively, some of its forks also divided ; disk of 

 the wing occupied by numerous little areolets which are mostly 

 tetragonal, but occasionally pentagonal or hexagonal ; veinlets 

 along the hind border mostly forked: hind-wings whitish, tinged 

 with green along the borders ; veins green, in structure much re- 

 sembling those of the fore-wings. Length of the body 10 lines ; of 

 the wings 34 lines. 



a. East Indies. From Mr. Stevens' collection. 



2. HEMEROBIUS PHAL^NOIDES. 



Obscure testacea ; alcB anticce strigis duabus obliquis punctoque 

 fuscis, maculaque triangulari marginali alba. 



Hemerobius phala^noides, Linn. Syst. Nat. ii. 912, 5 ; Faun. Suec. 



1508. Fabr. Ent. Syst. ii. 83, 8. Sulz. Gesch. pi. 25, f. 2. 



Roemer, Gen. Ins. pi. 25, f. 2. Schceff. Icon. Ins. Ratisb. \. pi. 



3, f. 11. 12. Deg. Ins. ii. 714, 4, pi. 22, f. 12, 13. Reaum. 



Ins. iii. 390, pi. 32, f. 8. Schr. Ins. Austr. 313, 628. Faun. 



Boic. ii. 190, 192, 5. Vill. Ent. Linn. iii. 48, 4. Panz. Faun. 



Ins. Germ. 87, 15. Oliv. Enc. Meth. vii. 61, 11. Petagn. Inst. 



Calab. i. 336, 4. 

 Drepanepteryx phateno'ides, Steph. III. Brit. Ent. Hand. vi. 100, 



l,pl. 33, f. J. 

 Drepanopterpx phalaenodes, Burnt. Handb. Ent. ii. 975, 1. Wesm. 



Man. Hemerob. Belg. 17. Bull. Acad. Roy. Brux. viii. 219. 

 Megalomus phalaenoides, Ramb. Hist. Nut.. Ins. Neur. 418, 1. 

 a. Germany. 



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