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with a blackish line at the junction with the thorax : anterior wings 

 with about 24 costal veinlets ; the transverse veinlet at the base of 

 the subcostal space placed level with the fifth costal one, about 7 

 veinlets at the apical end of this space ; 4 cellules in the postcostal 

 area. Legs pale grey ; all the tibiae with a shining black ring at their 

 junction with the femora ; claws shining reddish brown, dilated at 

 their bases. Abdomen very robust, dilated and laterally compressed ; 

 yellowish grey, the ventral sutures yellow, the sides grey. 

 Of this magnificent insect I possess one female from Natal. 



Chrysopa rufostigma, n. sp. Pallide flava, fusco varia. Antennae 

 alis paulo breviores, nigrse, articulo basali aurantiaco. Caput auran- 

 tiacum, vertice macula semicirculari fuscescentej palpi aurantiaci; 

 labrum vix emarginatum. Prothorax dimidio et ultra latior quam 

 longior, antice rotundatus, pallide flavus, utrinque piceo-brunneo sig- 

 natus, medio profunde longitudinaliter sulcatus. Mesothorax pallide 

 flavus, antice et utrinque postice nitens niger, punctis nonnullis mediis 

 nigris. Metathorax pallide flavus, postice et utrinque niger. Alae 

 angustse, elongatse, acutae, albido-hyalinse ; pterostigmate elongato, 

 rufo : anticse costa vix excisa ; punctis tribus basalibus, venulis cos- 

 talibus basin versus in parte basali nonnullisque pone medium nigris, 

 venarum venularumque caeteris pallide flavo-albidis : posticae venulis 

 nonnullis pone medium nigris, caeteris ut in anticis. Pedes flavi; 

 femoribus intermediis et posterioribus annulo ante apicem lineaque 

 intus fuscis ; unguiculis basi paulo dilatatis. Abdomen piceo-brunneum, 

 supra flavo varium. ($) Long. corp. 6'"; exp. alar. 1" 1'". 



Hob. Natalia. In collect, auctoris. 



AntenncE rather shoi-ter than the wings, black, the basal joint orange. 

 Head orange ; the vertex yellowish behind, in the middle with a 

 horseshoe-shaped fuscescent mark ; front slightly obscure in the 

 middle anteriorly ; labrum and palpi orange-coloured, the former very 

 slightly emarginate. Prothorax more than half as broad as long, 

 rounded in front, with a deep longitudinal groove in the middle ; pale 

 yellow, with a curved fuscous streak on each side, and a spot of the 

 same colour at the anterior angles. Mesothorax pale yellow, a large 

 elongate transverse spot on the anterior margin, a large rounded spot 

 on each side posteriorly, and several smaller spots in the middle 

 shining black. Metathorax pale yellow, posteriorly and on each side 

 black. The underside of the meso- and metathorax with dark brown 

 markings. Wings long and narrow, acute, whitish hyaline; ptero- 

 stigma 2^'" long, reddish : anterior wings with the costal margin very, 

 slightly excised in the middle ; three small black spots at the base 

 towards the dorsal margin ; the first six costal veinlets at their bases, 

 the postcostal veinlets and a few above them, the sector for a space in 

 its middle, and the base of the veinlets to the radius, starting from this 

 space, the last seven gradate veinlets of the inner series, and the 



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