New Genera and Species of Mecoptera. 



By 

 Esben Petersen, Silkeborg. 



In behalf of my monographic revision of the Meco- 

 ptera which shortly will be published in »/Catalogue des 

 Collections Zoologiques du Baron E. de Selys Longchamps", 

 I give below some preliminary notes : 



Taeniochorista gen. nov. 



Wings not so long as the body; fore wing two and 

 a half times longer than broad and with rounded apex. 

 In the two basal thirds of costal area 5 to 7 cross veins. 

 Media and anterior cubital branch fuse for a very short 

 distance. In the fore wing second and third anal veins 

 run in some distance from the hind margin of the wing 

 in their apical third; second and third anal veins connec- 

 ted with the hind margin by cross veins. 



Type the following species: 



T. pallida sp. nov. 

 Head and rostum yellowish brown; eyes black; ocelli 

 large and very prominent, each of them surrounded by 

 a narrow brownish circle. The two basal joints of anten- 

 næe yellow; the basal one stout, broader than long, the 

 second smaller, as long as broad. Apical joint of maxil- 

 lary palpi somewhat hastiform, strongly pointed at the 



