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Leucochrysa sp. 



Cachi, 22 Sept., 1910 (C. H. Lankester), near L. ceratica, 

 but the basal part of the antennae pale. 



Leucochrysa calverti n. sp. 



Pale yellowish, face unmarked, basal joint of antennae brown, and 

 a dark spot at outer tip, rest of antenuee pale ; a dark spot each side 

 on pronotum, and on anterior and lateral lobes of the thorax; a dark 

 spot on the second segment of the abdomen, and another toward tip ; 

 legs pale. Wings hyaline, venation pale, costal end of costals, and 

 radial end of radial cross veins dark; gradates dark, and faintly bor- 

 dered, outer forkings dark, dark on cubital cross veins, and a rather 

 large spot on origin of radial sector; stigma dark; hind wings have 

 pale venation, stigma and outer cross veins faintly dark. 



Pronotum plainly longer than broad, narrowed in front. 



Wings of moderate size, fore wings rounded at tip, hind wings 

 acute; four to six gradates in each series of fore wings, five in each 

 series in the hind wings ; in fore wings the outer gradates are about 

 as near to the inner as to margin, and inner about as near to radial 

 sector as to outer row; in hind wings inner series nearer to radial 

 sector than to outer series ; the divisory veinlet reaches nearly to end 

 of third cubital cell. 



Expanse, 23 mm. 



Holanda Farm, Banana River District, 5 Nov., 1909 (Cal- 

 vert). Type in the Academy of Natural Sciences of Phila- 

 delphia. 



Leucochrysa ceratica Navas. 

 Alajuela, 4 Sept., 1909. 

 Chrysopa effusa Navas. 



Cartago, July 9, Aug. 20, 1909. [The specimen of July 9 

 was reared from a larva collected June 17. The larval cov- 

 ering, to which the maker had attached fragments of the 

 bodies of the insects on which it fed, had its free edge drawn 

 partly together with silk to form the pupa case.] 



Trichopter.\. 

 Leptonema albovirens Walk. 



Cartago, 13 July, 1909, in daylight; another specimen found 

 floating in the Rio Grande de Tarcoles, near the Cebadilla 

 electric plant, April 12, 1910. 

 Heteroplectron maculatum Banks. 



Flying over river, close to water's surface, just after sun- 

 set, Rio Liberia, Liberia, Guanacaste, 11 Jan., 1910. 



