178 Transactions. 
Family LEPIDOPSOCIDAE. 
Antennae with considerably more than 13 joints. Maxillary palpi with 
the distal joint hatchet-shaped. Осе present, widely separated from one 
another. Body and wings both hairy and scaly, the scales pointed. Wings 
more or less pointed, the venation not of the normal Psocoid type; fore- 
wing with Cu, and 1A not ending together. 
This family may be conveniently divided into two subfamilies, accord- 
ing to the following key :— 
Antennae with 20-25 joints; hindwings with a very 
narrow closed cell; scales symmetrical .. .. Subfamily PERIENTOMINAE. 
Antennae with 26-47 joints; hindwings without a closed 
cell; scales asymmetrical Ne es .. Subfamily LEPIDOPSOCINAE. 
Only the latter subfamily is known in New Zealand. 
Subfamily LEPIDOPSOCINAE. 
Genus Oxypsocus n. g. 
Head very hairy; thorax and abdomen carrying both hairs and scales. 
Antennae with about 28 joints, the first two swollen, the rest slender and 
slightly swollen at bases and tips. Maxillary palpi hairy. Wings sharply 
pointed, with a fringe of long hairs, especially long on posterior border of 
hindwing. Forewing excessively hairy and also scaly, the scales long and 
cell in basal third of forewing, closed distally by a small basal piece of 
Rs descending from R and fusing wi Cu, leaves M + Cu, at about 
two-thirds along posterior side of this cell, and soon afterwards divides 
dichotomously into Cu,, and Cu,,. Cu, is a straight vein, weakly formed 
basally. 1A runs below it slightly divergingly, so that these two veins end 
up a considerable distance apart. al angle of clavus well marked, obtuse. 
In the hindwing all the veins except only Cu, and 1A are fused together 
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unbranched, just before it. М, and М 
and Rs divides somewhat beyond half-way into Risga +50 W 
the latter runs to the apex. Cu, and 1A arise close together, but diverge 
considerably. 
