250 MB. R. M'LACnLAK OTST NEW SPECIES ETC. OF NEUROPTEEA. 



narrower than the anterior, shghtly shorter ; the costal veinlets before 



the pterostigma, the veinlets between the radius and its sector 



(mostly only in the up|3er half of each veinlet), and most of the 



gradate veinlets black, the others pale green. All the veins and 



veinlets in both pairs of wings have fine short black hairs. Legs pale 



greenish yellow ; tarsi fulvous ; claws dilated at the base. 



I possess numerous examples, which do not vary, from the several 



localities above mentioned. It is closely allied to C septempunctata 



and G. hipunctata, but differs in always wanting the spot between 



the antennae, &c. 



Chrysopa tripunctata, n. sp. Flavo-ferruginea. Antennae alis 

 paulo longiores, ferrugineas ; articulo basali flavo, extus linea nigra. 

 Caput flavum ; maculis quinque nigris, quarum duabus elongatis in 

 vertice, una inter antennas, duabus subrotundatis in fronte sitis. La- 

 brum et palpi ferruginea. Prothorax fere duplo latior quam longior, 

 ferrugineus. Mesothorax metathoraxque flavo-ferruginei. Alae hya- 

 linse, cellulis nonnullis mediis albidis ; pterostigiuate flavo-ferrugineo, 

 elongate : anticse elongat^e, ad apicem rotundatse ; veuulis costalibus 

 gradatis, et inter radium et sectorem (illisque in parte basali), nigris ; 

 venis longitudinalibus venulisque cseteris albido-flavis; cellula cubitali 

 subquadrata : posticse venulis costalibus, et inter radium et sectorem, 

 nigris, cseteris fere omnino albido-flavis. Pedes flavi, tarsi ferruginei ; 

 unguiculis basi dilatatis. Abdomen ochraceum ( $ ). Long. corp. 4'" ; 

 exp. alar. 11'". 



Hub. Australia. In collect, auctoris. 



Antennce about the length of, or slightly longer than, the wings, ferru- 

 ginous, the basal joint yellow with a black line externally. Head 

 yellow, the vertex convex, two parallel elongated spots in the middle 

 of the vertex, a similar one, but smaller, between the antennae, and a 

 somewhat rounded one on each side of the front in the genae, black ; 

 labrum and palpi ferruginous. Prothorax very short, twice as broad 

 as long, ferruginous (much depressed in the dead insect). Meso- 

 and metathorax yellowish ferruginous, the sutures darker. Wings 

 elongate, rounded at the apex ; hyaline, some of the cellules having a 

 sort of whitish oxydization in the middle ; pterostigma long, yellowish- 

 ferruginous : anterior wings with all the costal veinlets, the gradate vein- 

 lets, those between the radius and its sector, and all those in the basal 

 half of the wing black, the longitudinal veins and the rest of the 

 veinlets and apical furcations pale yellowish ; the veins, veinlets and 

 margins slightly hauy ; cubital cell subquadrate ; 15 costal veinlets, 

 10 between the radius and its sector, 5 in the inner gradate series, 4 in 

 the outer, about 6 of the veinlets on the dorsal portion of the apical 

 margin simply furcate, the rest of the marginal veinlets simple : pos- 

 terior wings with the costal veinlets and those between the radius and 

 its sector black, the rest almost all yellowish. Legs yellow, the tarsi 



