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This subfamily is found in southern Chile, New Zealand, eastern 
Australia from Queensland to Victoria, and South Australia, but 'not 
Tasmania. 
Genus STENOPERLA. (Fig. 1.) 
Moderately large insects, expanding from 50mm. to 70mm. Antennae 
from one-half to two-thirds as long as forewing. Pronotum somewhat 
heart-shaped, about as wide as long. Costal series of veinlets few and 
incomplete, there being always a long gap between the humeral veinlet 
and the next one. Medio-cubital cross-veins in forewing forming only a 
single row of cellules, only occasionally connected by a cross-bar. 
Genotype.— Stenoperla prasina (Newman). New Zealand. 
The only other described species of this genus is S. australis Till. from 
eastern Australia, but an undescribed species of a green colour has also 
been found in Queensland. | 
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SA 
C Жы PEE 
Fic. l.—Wing-venation of Stenoperla prasina (Newm.) 1A, 2A, ЗА, the three anai 
veins; Cu, cubitus; Cu,, first cubitus, with its branches Сша to ; 
: Cus, second cubitus; hm, humeral veinlet ; M, media; Mi+2, Мз+4 Р 
two main ches; Mg, its archaic posterior branch, which has — 
become the most basal of the medio-cubital series of cross-veins; R, radius; — 
воа stem; Rs, radial sector, with its branches Ry, Ry, and R4+5 5 
* 
z= 
Stenoperla prasina (Newman). (Fig. 1.) | 
Chloroperla prasina Newman, 1845, Zoologist, vol. 3, р. 852. Hermes _ 
, * S ; 
Neuroptera, p. 5, pl. 1, figs. 4-5; Tillyard, 1921, Proc. Linn 
Soc. N.S.W., vol. 46, pt. 2, p. 233, pl. 15, fig. 9 and text-figs. 1, 
