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angular in front. Fore wings broad ; costa dilated and rounded 

 towards the base ; interior border straight; lips slightly rounded ; no 

 angles; a few series of transverse veinlets. Hind wings pellucid; 

 veins white. Lenth of the body S^^ lines. Mount Sinai. 



Fani. Aphrophoeid^. — Gen. Ptyelus, Lep. et Serv. 



34. ^rfM.?/?/.?, Walk. Cat. Horn. 8, 710. Var. ? Dahleck. Inhabits 

 W. Africa. 



Fam. Iassid^. — Gen. Iassus, Fahr. 



35. Lineolifer. ^neons-testaceous. Face with a whitish line, on 

 each side of which there are whitish transverse streaks. Vertex and 

 prothorax with some brownish speckles. Prothorax with five whitish 

 stripes. Scutellum brown, with a tetragonal whitish mark, which 

 emits a streak on each side and includes two anterior brown points and 

 two posterior brown dots. Legs pale testaceous, striped wilh brown. 

 Fore wings pale testaceous, with some longitudinal fusiform brown 

 ringlets. Hind wings while. Length of the body 1 line. Cairo. 



Fam. Bythoscopid^. — Gen. Bythoscopus, Germ. 



36. Despeclus. Pale yellow. Fore wings yellowish hyaline. Hind 

 wings milky white, hyaline. Length of the body ^ line. Much more 

 slender than B. virescens. Cairo. 



Order Neuroptera, 

 Fam. Hemerobid.*;. — Gen. Chrysopa, Leach. 



1 . Congriia, Walk. Cat. Neur. 2, 238. Cairo. Wady Nash .? Mount 

 Sinai ? Inhabits W. Africa. The individuals from Wady Nash and 

 from Mount Sinai may be another species. 



Fam. Myhmeleonid.e. — Gen. Myrmeleon. 



2. Appcndicidaius,'L?i.U\ Gen. m.ld^. Tajura. Inhabits S. Europe. 



3. Variegatiis, King, Symb. Phys. Dec. 4, pi. 30, f. 4. Wady Nash. 

 Harkeko. Inhabits S. Europe. 



4. Africanus, Ramb. Hist. Neur. 395. Cairo. Inhabits S. Africa. 



Fam. Panorpid.e. — Gen. Bittacus, Latr. 



5. Ilalicus. Panorpa Ilalica, Miiller, Manip. Ins. Taur. ed. Allioni, 

 Misc. Taurin, iii. 194. Harkeko. Inhabits S. Europe. 



Fam. Nemopterid^. — Gen. Nemoptera, Latr. 



6. Halterata. Panorpa halterata, Forsk. Descr. Anim. 97, pi. 25, 

 f. 2. Wady Nash. Mount Sinai. Inhabits Syria, Bagdad, Egypt, 

 Sierra Leone. 



