On veto Species of Neurnptern. 017 



Skull : greatest Iciirrfli lf)'2 ; broadtli of hrain-case 8"2, 



Hah, Port Daiwin, Nortli Australia. Type; from (Jasuiuiiirt 

 Hay ; sea-level. 



Ty}>e. Adult male. B.M. no. 22. 10. S. 1. Oii^rinal nuni- 

 l>er 5. Collectecl 9tli 'Tuly, l'J22, and presented l)y 

 Mrs. Oiiana F. \Vilsoii. TIikh) .spcciinciis. 



The reniarkahiy pale hrowii colour of tliis Miniopterus 

 distinguishes it from any other mcinher of the genus, for 

 other pale species are of quite a different and more greyish 

 kind of pallor. 



LXVII. — New Species of Neuropteni in the British Museum. 

 By P. ESBEN-PETEliSEN, tiilkeborg, Don mark. 



1]y the kindness of Mr. Herbert Campion I have had the 

 pleasure of looking over some Neuropttra belonging to the 

 British Museum. Amongst the material three new and 

 •nnibscribed species were found — viz., Dis//aromiti(s rufu- 

 costatus (Asealapiiidte), Faipares ptilchellus, and l\ilparts 

 auratus (M} rmeleonidse). 



lJit!j>aromitus rufucostatus, sp. n. 

 Clypeus, labrum, and })al[)i reddish brown; face blackish 

 shining. Verlex and face with very long blackish and 

 greyish hairs. Antenna} two-thirds the length of anterior 

 wing, sanguineous, yellowish annulated ; club broad, blackish, 

 somewhat paler internally. Thorax pale chocolate-brown, 

 with black streaks and spots ; dorsum of mesothorax with a 

 figure somewhat like that on the death'.-:-head moth ; hairs 

 rather long, black. Underside of tiioiax pale chocolate- 

 brown, with black and grey hairs. Legs rather short and 

 stout, reildish brown, witii long black and grey hairs ; knees 

 and tarsi black ; tarsi a little longer than tibiie ; spurs 

 hardly as long as first tait-al joint. Abilomen very long, 

 much longer than fore \\ing, rather slender, blackish ; first 

 and second segments partly brown ; basal part of abdomen 

 with a few long ami black hairs, the rest oi abdomen with 

 shorter black hairs. Doisuni of first abdominal segment with 

 a saddle-shajietl elevation. Appendages of male very short 

 their ti[) laterally directed. \Vings equally broad in their 

 apical two-third parts ; tip obtusely rounded ; jiosterior angle 

 of the fore wings rather prominent. Cross-veins of win^s 

 black; longituihnal veins with the exception of 7i\s and all 

 the branches from Jis anil Cui reddish, li blackish from 

 pterostigma to tip of wing. Pterosiigma yellowish brown, 

 conspicuous, twice as long in hind wing as ni fore win"; in 



