74 MAXPIBULATA. NEUROPTERA. 



Ag. hastulatum. Charpentier, Horm Ent. p. 20. — Steph. Nomen. '2d edit, 

 col. 113. 



Azure : face with two transverse black-brassy streaks ; crown and occiput 

 bronzed, the latter with two large spots, square in the male, yellowish in 

 the female, sometimes united by a faint line ; collar brassy-black, bordered 

 with azure or yellowish, its hinder margin very slightly produced in the 

 middle ; thorax azure, yellow in the female, the back and a lateral line in 

 both sexes brassy ; male with the abdomen azure, the 1st segment with a 

 transverse brassy dot at the base, 2nd with short longitudinal lines of the 

 same on the sides at tlie base, and a spear-shaped spot behind ; the 3rd to 

 6th segments have increasing brassy margins, the two following are wholly 

 azure, the terminal one black, with the sides azure ; its hinder margin is 

 deeply cut out, and is furnished with four appendages. Female yellowish, 

 or greenish, varied with brassy-black, the two basal segments each with a 

 large spot of this colour, that of the 2nd emitting a lateral twig; the 

 remaining segments are brassy above, with a short transverse yellow line at 

 the base of each ; legs whitish, black without. 



Found, not commonly, near London, in June. 



Sp. S, annulare. Azureum, ceneo pictum, collari nigro-aneo jiavido marginato : 

 margine postico subrejlexo et bisinuato, abdomine cingulis Jlavidis. (Long, 

 corp. 16lin.; Exp. Alar. 19 lin.) 



Ag. annularis. Leach MSS. — Steph. Catal. 307. No. 3415. 



Azure, varied with brassy; face yellowish, with two transverse black streaks; 

 crown and occiput brassy-black, the latter with a triangular yellowish spot 

 on each side ; collar rather short, edged with yellowish, its hinder margin 

 faintly reflexed and a little varied ; thorax brassy-black, with five azure 

 streaks; abdomen brassy-green, the extremity of each segment with a 

 yellowish ring ; legs ochreous, with a black line above. 



Abundant within the metropolitan district in June. 



Sp. 9. rufescens. Fallide rufa, thorace lineis S-hus atro-aneis, pedibus rufes- 

 centibus extus nigris, abdomine maris rufo segmentis nigra marginatis, foeminsE 

 supra cBueo subtus luteo-rufo, pallide marginatis. (Long. corp. 15 — 16 lin.; 

 Exp. Alar. 20—21 lin.) 



Ag. rufescens. Leach MSS. — Steph. Catal. 307. No. 3416. 



Head reddish, pale beneath ; labrura with a black streak, crown and occiput 

 black, the latter with two red dots behind the eyes; thorax pale red, with 

 a broad brassy-black line in the middle, and a very narrow one on each 

 side, faintly edged with whitish without; abdomen pale red, each segment 

 broadly tipped with brassy-black, and the three last segments nearly all of 

 that colour, the last segment deeply excised; legs pale red, black without; 

 legs hyaline, stigma pale. Female with the abdomen brassy above, the 

 sides and beneath reddish, each segment with a narrow pale reddish border. 



