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men brownish : superior appendices long, broad, flattened, the 

 apex acuminate and turned under, pubescent : inferior appen- 

 dices long, two-jointed, the basal joint very short, broad, and 

 with a rounded tubercle at the base, above 5 second joint very 

 abruptly turned inwards at an acute angle with the first joint, 

 long, claw-shaped, the tips being black, cm-ved, and acute : 

 ventral plate (last ventral segment) nearly quadi-ate, but with 

 the apical margin broadly and shallowly excised. Legs — fe- 

 mora yellow ; tibiee and tarsi blackish, brownish internally, 

 with yellow pubescence. 



Wings hyaline, with a very slight greyish or fuscous tinge : 

 in the anterior wings the costal veinlets and almost all the 

 transverse veinlets are thickened and black; longitudinal 

 veins yellow, the costa, subcosta, and radius being somewhat 

 brownish : posterior wings with the costal veinlets and those 

 between the radius and sector black, neuration otherwise 

 yellow. 



I have seen two males of this species, which is most nearly 

 allied to N. testaceus^ Rambur, but differs in the colour of the 

 legs and in the appendices. 



List of described 8])ecies o/Neuromus. 



N. grandis, Thunberg. 



Hemerohius grmidis, Thbg. Nov. Ins. Sp. pt. 1. p. 28, fig. 44 (1781). 

 Hermes costalis, Walker, Cat. Brit. Mus. Neiu-op. p. 207 (1853). 

 H. antmts, Walk. op. cit. p. 205 2 (1853). 



Japan, China. 



iV. mfectus, M'Lachlan, ante, p. 41. 

 Darjeeling. 



N. JiieroglypMcuSy Rambur. 



Neuromus MeroglyphicxLSy Ramb. N^vrop. p. 442 (1842). Hermes Mero- 

 glyphictis, Walk. Cat. Brit. Mus. Neurop. p. 206. Corydalis hiero- 

 glyphica, Hag. Neurop. N. Amer. p. 194. 



Central America, Brazil. 



N. corripiens, Walker. 



Hermes corripiens, Walk. Trans. Ent. See. Lond. new ser. toI. v. p. 180 

 (1860). 



Brazil. 



N. 10-maculatus, Walker. 



Hermes \Q-maeulatus, Walk. Trans. Ent. Soc. Lond. new ser. vol. v. 

 p. 180 (1860). 



Brazil (?) or India (?). 



