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PLATE CCCXV. 



RAPHIDIA OPHIOPSIS. 



Neuroptera. 



GENERIC CHARACTER. 



Head depreflfed or flat. Mouth armed with two teeth, and fur- 

 nifhed with four palpi. Three ftemmata. Wings defle£led. An- 

 tenna long as the thorax, anterior part of which is lengthened out 

 and cylindrical. Tail of the female terminated by a flexible crooked 

 briftle. 



SPECIFIC CI-IARACTER. 

 Thorax cylindrical ; a brown marginal fpot on each wing. 



Raphidia Ophiopsis : thorace cylindrico, alls macula marginali 



fufca, 

 Raphidia Ophiopsis. Linn. Syji. Naf. 

 Raphidia notata. Fab. Spec. Inf. i. p. 402. 106. fp, i. 



Roef. Inf. ^.tab. 21. fig. 67. 



Scop alt, Cam. yH' 



Scbcsff. Icon. tab. C)^. I. 2. 

 • • Elevi. tab. 107. 



W© can fcarcely conceive what motive induced Fabricius to con- 

 found the Raphidia Ophiopfis and notata as one fpecies in his lafc 

 work, after having defcribed both with accuracy in his former pub- 

 lication : it appears indeed, that his names were erroneous, and his 

 fynonyms mifapplied ; but it was needlefs to correal one error by 

 committing another. 



The 



