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Family HEMEROBIIM!. 

 Drepanepteryx berothoides, n. sp. 



$ . D. griseo-Jlavescens. Caput thoraxque utrinque fusco-nigri : an- 

 tennae jlavce, nigro-annulatae. Pedes jtavo-albidi, fusco-signati. Alee an- 

 gustce : anticce margine costali prope basin valde elevato, in medio late 

 exciso; apice longe falcato ; margine apicali sub apicem late exciso ; 

 griseo-fuscae, marginibus venisque longitudinalibus nigro-punctatis ; sec- 

 tores sex: posticce albido-Jiyalince, late fusco-limbatce. 

 Long. corp. 3'"; exp. alar. 10'". 

 Hab. Australia. 

 Head and thorax dull greyish-yellow, the sides above blackish ; face shining yel- 

 lowish, suffused with blackish ; antennas yellow, narrowly annulated with 

 black ; palpi blackish. Legs whitish-yellow ; anterior and intermediate femora 

 and tibiae strongly spotted with black ; posterior femora internally with a long 

 fuscous cloud ; apical joint of all the tarsi blackish. Abdomen fuscous, paler 

 beneath. 

 Wings long and narrow : anterior pair with the costal margin very narrow at base, 

 then, near the base, strongly and roundly elevated, afterwards very longly and 

 shallowly excised ; apex produced into a long curved hook, the margin below 

 the apex deeply excised ; colour greyish-fuscous, with a darker transverse 

 cloud before the apex ; costal margin regularly dotted with black and yellowish, 

 apical margin (excision) narrowly blackish, with pale whitish-yellow spaces, 

 costal veinlets, radius, and sectors yellow, strongly dotted with black ; six 

 sectors ; two series of gradate veinlets, of about six each, placed very obliquely 

 and parallel ; cellule at base of costal area long, occupying nearly the whole of 

 the very narrow base of the area : posterior wings with the apical margin 

 longly excised ; whitish hyaline, apical and dorsal margins with a very broad 

 smoky fuscous border, extending nearly to the base, hence the hyaline ground 

 is reduced to an oval basal space ; veins pale yellowish in the hyaline portion 

 and blackish in the rest. 



A very peculiar species, with the facies of the Indian and American 

 forms of Perotlia ; differing widely on the one hand from the European 

 D. phalcenoides and the Indian D. falculoides, and on the other hand 

 from the Australian and New Zealand group represented by T>. bino- 

 culus and its allies, yet agreeing structurally sufficiently well to admit 

 of its being considered generically identical. Lent to me by Mr. "Walker. 



Hemerobiits perparytjs, n. sp. 



H. rufo-fulvus,fusco-nigroque varius. Antennae flavce, ad basin fusco- 



annulatce, ad apicem nigricantes. Pedes fiavi, tarsis anticis intermediisque 



nigro-annulatis. Ales albido-hyalince : anticce griseo-guttatee ; vencevenu- 



Iceque albidce, fusco-punctatce, pilis longis, erectis, nigris, ciliatce ; sectores 



duo. 



Long. corp. 1\'" ; exp. alar. 3%'". 



Hab. Texas. In coll. auct. 



