142 — 



8. — Bittacus weelei n. sp. 



Bittacus testaceus Weele (not Ki.uG), Sjôstedts Kilimandjaro-Meru Expédition, 

 Neuroptera, 1909, pag. 21, fig. 3. 



I have seen several spécimens of this species — also the type 

 spécimens in the Muséum of Stockholm — and have compared 



spécimens with the type spécimens of 

 testaceus in the Muséum of Berlin. It 

 is a good and very distinct species, 

 easilv recosfnized bv the characters 

 mentioned in the table and by the geni- 

 talia of the maie, in which the appen- 

 dices superiores are short^ broadest at 

 the base and curved downwards in the 

 apical part; génital valve is broadest at 

 the apex, which is deeply incised. The 

 antennae blackish with exception of the 

 two basai joints, which are pale brown. 

 Wings pale smoky brown. The longi- 

 tudinal nervures and several of the cross veins — especiallv the 

 first séries — dark smoky brown; the rest of the apical cross veins 

 paler and not so distinct, ^terostigma rectangular and almost of 

 the same width, 8 times as long as broad. Legs pale brown, fore 



Fig. 7. — Bittacus weelei Q*. 

 Appendices anales, seenfrom 

 side. 



Fig. 8. — Bittacus weelei (Mus. Stockholm . 



femora dark on the underside; ail the femora with a small, darker 

 annulation at the apex, and ail the tibiae with a larger one; the 

 fore and intermediate tarsi dark brown, and the hind tarsi almost 

 blackish brown. Head and thorax brown; a blackish spot between 

 the ocelli ; rostrum blackish brown in the apical half. The palpi 



