THE PHILIPPINE 



Journal of Science 



Vol. XI 



D. General Biology, Ethnology, 

 AND Anthropology 



MAY, 1916 



No. 3 



NEUROPTEROID INSECTS OF THE PHILIPPINE ISLANDS 



By Nathan Banks 

 {Washington, D. C.) 



TWO PLATES 



A few years ago not a dozen species of neuropteroid insects 

 were known from the Philippines. A few were collected by 

 Semper and described by Brauer, and Navas and Weele have 

 added two or three. 



In the past few years Prof. Charles Fuller Baker has sent me 

 specimens representing about seventy-five species of insects of 

 these orders. In a preliminary report ^ I described a number 

 of new species and recorded others. Professor Baker has desired 

 that a synopsis be published in the Philippines to encourage local 

 students, and the following is presented, although I recognize 

 that it does not cover one third, probably not one fifth, of the 

 species to be found in the Philippines. Nearly all the material 

 is from Los Baiios, Laguna Province, Luzon, or from near-by 

 territory. 



In the generic tables I have included some genera not yet 

 recorded from the Philippine Islands, which from their known 

 distribution may be expected to occur there, but doubtless un- 

 expected as well as new genera will be found in future collections. 



The Odonata, or dragon flies, are not included in this paper. 

 The only island in Insulinde whose neuropteroid fauna is at 

 all well known is Java. It differs from that of the Philippines 

 in the presence of Megaloptera and Mecoptera, and even if these 



^Proc. Ent. Soc. Washington (1913), 15, 170-180. 



