34 mr. c. v. a. peel and others on [Jan. 23, 



6. NEUROPTERA. 

 By Robert McLaciilan, F.R.S. &c. 



Planipennia. 



Palpares papilionoides Klug, var. 



West Somaliland, Sule River, May 29, 1895. One female. 



It appears to me to be safer to regard this single specimen as a 

 variety of P. papilionoides rather than to describe it as new. 

 Klug's species was from Arabia Felix. When compared with 

 King's description and figures, this female is somewhat larger and 

 the (lark bands of the anterior wings are more distinctly fenestrated 

 in consequence of the dark colour being restricted to margining of 

 the network. Some examples of P. tristis Hagen, diverge from 

 the type form in the same mauner, and I have a female from 

 Somaliland that at first I thought was specifically identical with 

 that from the Sule River, but there is a slightly different form of 

 wing, and in papilionoides the abdomen has black longitudinal 

 bands which are wanting in tristis. 



Palpares walkeki McLachlan. 



Sule River, May 24, 1S95. One female. 



The male of this species was described by me in the Ent. 

 Monthly Mag. for August 1894 from two examples taken by Mr. 

 J. J. Walker, R.N., F.L.S., at Aden, which are in my collection. 

 Subsequently Col. Yerbury, R.A., F.Z.S., found examples of both 

 sexes at the same place and presented them to the British Museum. 

 Upon comparing the female from Somaliland with those from Aden, 

 I see nothing that can be considered of specific difference. The 

 female has never been described. It is larger (expanse about 

 130 mm.) and the wings are broader (19 mm.), the isolated black 

 markings on the anterior wings are larger ; on the posterior wrings 

 the fascia' are both broader and longer, the second of them extending 

 to the dorsal margin, and very broad and strongly angulate in the 

 middle; the third is also very broad and connected more or less with 

 a series of spots towards the dorsal margin. (In no two specimens 

 do the dark bands and other markings precisely agree nor are they 

 symmetrical on the opposing wings.) 



Myrmeleon variegatus Klug. 



West Somaliland (1895). One male, without indication of 

 further locality. Described originally from Arabia Felix. I have 

 what appears to be exactly the same species from the Sinai Penin- 

 sula. Probably widespread. 



O D O N A T A. 



Cacergate leucosticta Burm. 



East Central Somaliland : Haweea Country, Sinnadohga, by a 

 water-tank, Sept. 8, 1897. One female. 

 A widespread African insect. 



