banks: new neuropteroid insects. 



Taeniopteryx (Rhabdiopteryx) pallida, sp. nov. 



Type.— lsl. C. Z. 10,052. Wash.: Wenatchee, 31 May. E. J. 

 Newcomer. Three specimens. 



More or less reddish, legs and wings pale. Head dull reddish, paler 

 around mouth, a large black patch above antennae to the posterior 

 ocelli, and behind on vertex blackish, antennae black, palpi pale, 

 pronotum dull blackish in middle, reddish on front, behind, and on 

 sides, rest of thorax and the abdomen blackish, apical part of venter 

 and the ventral plate of female pale. Legs pale, tarsi darker, and 

 femora sometimes infuscate above. Wings grayish hyaline; costa, 

 subcosta, and radius pale, except near tip, other veins brown to black, 

 end of radius rather broadly blackish, a basal costal cross-vein and 

 one or two toward end of the subcosta ; about six cross-veins in median 

 and in cubital areas, median and cubitus end in one fork, that of the 

 latter some distance before the former; radial sector with one branch 

 at or just beyond the anastomosis; the female ventral plate (Plate 

 1, fig. 7) rather long, broadly rounded at the tip. The posterior ocelli 

 more than twice as far apart as from the eyes. Pronotum nearly one 

 and a half times as broad as long, sides slightly convex, anterior 

 corners rounded, surface with but few rugosities each side. 



Expanse 19 mm. 



Arsapina bakeri, sp. nov. 



Type. — M. C. Z. 10,053. Calif. : mountains near Claremont. 

 C. F. Baker. One specimen. 



Black; legs, antennae, and setae yellowish brown, tarsi darker. 

 Head and ocelli similar to A. decepta, but a large triangular boss 

 obliquely in front of each lateral ocellus. Pronotum only a little 

 broader than long; sides rather convex; setae fully as long as abdo- 

 men, the joints elongate. Wings dark gray, darker along stigmal area 

 and along outer hind margin; pale areas above and behind the anas- 

 tomosis; cross-vein beyond end of subcosta arises just above the 

 anastomosis, the radial sector at anastomosis almost forks; that is 

 the posterior section of anastomosis is very short; and this branch is 

 very concave near base. The cubital vein has a distinct apical fork. 

 (Plate 2, fig. 26). 



Expanse 17 mm. 



