y, 08) __ENTOMOLOGICAL NEWS. 203 
A new genus and species of Neuroptera. 
By NATHAN BANKs. 
. ‘Recently Dr. J. B. Smith in sending some New Jersey ma- 
‘terial, included a few forms from California. Among the 
_ latter is a specimen of a Hemerobiid belonging to a new genus 
and species. As I have lately revised our species of this family 
it is with much interest that I add this striking form to our 
r* OLIARCES ». gen 
x "Body thick and heavy as in Polystoechotes, head rather small, 
+ » ocelli ; antennae broken, scarcely the diameter of basal seg- 
apart, and closer to the small eyes; pronotum about three 
as broad as long, a little broader behind than in front, 
™ rather short and stout. Legs slender, tibial spurs dis- 
___ tinct, no spines, but many hairs and bristles, apical tarsal joint 
. as basal, others much shorter. Wings moderately 
; in the fore wings the radius and sub-costa do not unite 
tip, although they come very close together; beyond the 
Uiptgeal vegion the rain to bene dowereard an eta several 
forked branches from its upper side to the margin of wing; 
re lower branch of the median vein, soon after its origin, 
unites with the cubital ; the latter gives off a number of branch- 
5 to the margin; cross-veins quite numerous, but not in ser- 
ies; at costal base is a recurrent vein; the radial sector arises 
near base of wing, but has only four branches ; the costal cross- 
veins are outwardly oblique. The hind wings are veined much 
like the fore pair, but the lower branch of the medius does not 
run into the cubital vein, but parallel to it, and soon forks; 
____ ¢ross-veins hardly as numerous as in the fore pair; and radial 
: In many respects this is similar to Polystoechotes, but differs 
at once by the subcosta not joining the radius, by the much 
fewer branches of the radial sector, irregular cross-veins, and 
in forewings by the union of lower branch of median vein to 
dark hair; legs dull yellowish, very hairy; abdomen 
