MEXICAN NEUROPTERA. 52I 



terior margin, outer branch falling short, sometimes, how- 

 ever, uniting with the inner branch; lower margin each 

 ■ side fuscous ; meso- and metathorax above interruptedly 

 lined with fuscous, sides with many fuscous spots usually 

 connected; legs yellowish, with scattered brown dots, 

 tips of tarsal joints blackish; abdomen blackish, a yellow- 

 ish line above on each side of the basal joints; clothed 

 throughout with black bristly hair. Wings hyaline, veins 

 pale ; both pairs evenly spread with many small fuscous 

 spots, of about equal size, usually having for their center 

 the base of a transverse veinlet; pterostigma large, dis- 

 tinct, cream yellow. Wings broad, costal space not biare- 

 olate till near middle of wings, space behind radius sim- 

 ple, cubitus forks beyond the origin of radial sector, but 

 before the forking of radial sector. Antennse of 5 longer 

 than thorax, a little shorter in the $ ; spurs longer than 

 basal tarsal joint; abdomen in the 3 longer than wings, in 

 the ? shorter; appendages' of the S shorter than last seg- 

 ment of abdomen, nearly parallel, upcurved, their tips 

 divaricate, a comb of stiff bristles near the tip above. 

 A number of specimens from Tepic. November. 



My'rmeleon rusticus Hagen. 



Hagen, Syu. Neuropt. N. Am., p. 233. 

 Hagen, Can. Entom. 1887, p. 210. 



Several specimens from San Jose del Cabo, Baja Cal- 

 ifornia. September. 



ASCALAPHID^. 



Ulula mexicana McLach. 



McLachlan, Journ. Linn. Soc, Zooi. 1871, p. 248. 



A single specimen from Tepic, Mexico. October. 

 Ulula bicolor nov. sp. 



Length 30 mm., alar expanse 55 mm. Hair on face 

 white, more grayish on head and thorax; white on coxse 



2d See., Vol. V. ( 34 ) August 20, 1895. 



