308 Mr. R. M'Lachlan's Characters of 



on the costa, the last of which reaches nearly across the wing and 

 expands at the end, one in the apex, one at the anal angle, and 

 one towards the inner margin, with a prolongation towards the 

 base ; posterior wings hyaline, iridescent, apex dark fuscous. 



Habitat, Shanghae, North China. Collected by Mr. Fortune. 

 In the British Museum. 



M. lauta. 



Antennis bases versus crassis, breve nigro-pilosis, aliter ochra- 

 ceis ; palpis ochraceis articulo quarto nigricante ; capite 

 thoraceque nitidis purpureo-fuscis ; pedibus testaceis, tibiis 

 tarsisque externe fuscis ; alis anticis saturate purpureo- 

 fuscis, nitidis, striga basali, strigis costalibus tribus, macu- 

 lisque duabus marginem dorsalem versus, albo-hyalinis ; 

 posticis albo-hyalinis, apicibus late fuscis. 



Long. Corp. lin. ; exp. alar. 15 lin. 



Antennae, for the space of half an inch from the base, thickened, 

 and clothed with short black hairs, the rest ochreous ; palpi bright 

 ochreous, the fourth joint tinged with fuscous ; head and thorax 

 shining, purplish fuscous ; legs testaceous, tibiae and tarsi exter- 

 nally fuscous, spurs fuscous ; anterior wings shining dark pur- 

 plish fuscous, with whitish hyaline markings, viz., a short streak 

 from the base, three streaks placed close together from the costa, 

 of which the middle is the longest, the outer ones slightly con- 

 vergent, and two large spots, scarcely touching the inner margin, 

 placed opposite to the two outside costal streaks ; posterior wings 

 whitish hyaline, the tips broadly fuscous. 



Habitat, Hong Kong. Collected by J. C. Bowring, Esq. Three 

 specimens in the British Museum. 



The thickened antennae noticed in this species are observable in 

 a slight degree in several others, but not to the same extent. 



M. Australis. 



Monopseudopsis inscriptus, Walker, British Museum Catalogue 

 of Neuroptera, pt. 1, p. 105. 



The single type of this insect, on which Mr. Walker founded 

 his genus Monopseudopsis, is in very bad condition, and is evi- 

 dently a Macronema of the same group as M. hospita, M. zebra- 

 turn, Hag., M. sepultum, Hag., M. lauta and M. {Hydropsyche) mul- 

 tifaria, Walker, and is closely allied to the two first. All these, 

 in common with the insect now under consideration, are distin- 

 guished by the presence of whitish hyaline markings on a dark 



