IM MANDIBULATA. NEUROPTERA. 



Very glossy, deep black : collar slightly wrinkled ; abdomen pitchy-red ; 



femora pitchy-black ; tibise pitchy-red ; tarsi black; wings brownish, with 



darker nervures, the transverse ones towards the apex bordered with 



dusky. 

 Antenna sometimes pitchy at the base. 



Common at Ripley, in June and July ; also found in Scotland. 



B. Anterior wings destitute of a x-like plexus of nervures ; hinder margin 

 with nine longitudinal nervures. 



Sp. 15. variegata. Plate xxxi. J'. 2. — Fusco-nigra, collare pedibusque rufis 

 nigro variis, alis pallide cinereis Jasciis 2-bus fuscescentibus. (Long. corp. 

 4lin. ; Exp. Alar. 11 lin.) 



Ne. variegata. Steph. Catal. 316. No. 3358. 



Head and antennae deep black, the former rather small; collar pale red, 

 slightly clouded on the disc with blackish ; meso- and meta- thorax black ; 

 abdomen pitchy above, dusky beneath ; legs pale red; coxse ochreous, tip 

 of the femora black; apex and tip of the tibiae, and a line on their inner 

 edge, as well as the tarsi, black ; wings long and narrow, with numerous 

 nervures, pale ashy, with two or three transverse fuscous streaks ; nervures 

 also fuscous ; posterior wings fuscescent, especially at the apex. 



I suspect this insect is the true Phryganea nebulosa of Linnaeus. 



Apparently rare : my specimen occurred near Hertford in June. 



Genus XXX.— LEUCTRA, Stephens. 



Antennw placed somewhat remotely in front beneath the eyes, somewhat 



moniliform and pilose, or setaceous and simple, with distinct joints; in all 



the basal joint robust, the 2nd slightly smaller : labrum transverse, rounded 



in front: palpi with the terminal joint a little acute: head large and 



depressed, or small and inflexed : eyes moderate, prominent : ocelli 3 : collar 



more or less quadrate, longitudinally sulcate and rugose : ivings incumbent 



during repose; anterior elongate, somewhat acuminate, tlie transverse 



nervures placed rectangularly about the middle of the costa, and not forming 



a %-like mark by the union with the longitudinal ones ; posterior pair 



shorter, narrower, acuminated, and incised' on the outer margin: abdomen 



somewhat linear-elongate, the apex not furnished with jointed setas: legs 



rather slender, simple : femora and tibice slightly compressed and striated : 



tarsi with the intermediate joint slightly produced benea,th. 



The great dissimilarity of the neuration of the wings of the insects 



included in this genus from those of the foregoing — as exhibited in 



Plate xxxi. figs. 2 and 3 — sufficiently indicate their distinction; 



these organs are also more elongate and acuminated at the apex, 



the anterior pair are narrower ; the head smaller, the antennae more 



distinctly articulated, he. 



