MEXICAN NEUROPTERA. 519 



Brachynemurus sackeni Hagen. 



Hagen, Can. Entom. 1888, p. 94. 

 Many specimens from San Jose del Cabo, Baja Cal- 

 ifornia. September. Previously known from Arizona, 

 Texas, California and Mexico. 



Brachynemurus californicus nov. sp. 



Length ? 26 mm., 6 35 mm., alar expanse 50-55 mm. 

 Head yellowish, a broad fuscous band through antennal 

 sockets from eye to eye, vertex with two transverse rows 

 of fuscous spots, and behind on each side a brown and a 

 black spot; antenna with two basal joints pale, a band 

 in front and behind on first one, rest annulate with fus- 

 cous; prothorax with a broad fuscous stripe each side, 

 which is forked in front and contains a pale spot behind; 

 on each lower side is a shorter and less definite fuscous 

 stripe ; many fuscous spots on each upper side of meso- 

 and metathorax, forming a more or less maculose stripe; 

 other spots on middle, some of them shining black; a 

 broad black stripe below wings, containing an interrupted 

 pale line; legs thickly dotted with fuscous, black on tips 

 of tibiae, third and fourth tarsal joints wholly, and the tip 

 of the fifth joint; spurs about as long as the basal joint. 

 Abdomen of 3 longer than the wings, of the ? shorter; 

 pale, lineated with fuscous, near the tip often broken into 

 spots more or less connected; second segment mostly 

 fuscous, the others with a median and side stripes, the 

 former narrow in the middle, usually wanting on basal 

 part of basal joints, last segment almost wholly fuscous. 

 Nearly everywhere scantily clothed with white hair and 

 black bristles. The appendages of the 6 pale, and dotted 

 with fuscous, twice as long as last segment, slender, bowed 

 and slightly upcurved, a comb of stiff bristles above near 

 tip. Wings narrow, hyaline; veins fuscous, pointed with 

 white; small fuscous spots, most distinct on radius and 



