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resembling Chrysopa in most of its details, but instead of having 

 the antennae inserted close together, they are separated at their 

 bases, and a cylindrical protuberance or horn projects from the 

 front between them. For this genus I propose the name Meleoma, 

 formed from two Greek words, implying bad smell, in allusion to 

 the odor which in common with several species of Chrysopa, these 

 insects exhale. But one species is known to me, which may be 

 .named and described as follows : 



Signoret's Golden-eted Fly, (Meleoma Signoretii) is of a pale yellowish 

 green color, and is clothed with fine short pubescence, especially upon the abdomen. 

 The cylindrical horn which arises bet ween the base of the antennje is longer than 

 broad, and is directed forward upon a line with the head and thorax. It is a third 

 longer and somewhat thicker than the enlarged basal joints of the antennEe, is 

 slightly dilated at its anterior end, where it is abruptly turned downwards almost at 

 a right angle, this deflected part forming a thin transverse lamina of a light yellow 

 color, vertically striated on its anterior face, and with a projecting acute tooth in the 

 middle of its lower margin, which is of a brown color and turned backwards. Upon 

 the top of the head is a transverse elevation, with a deep excavation immediately 

 hack of it. The face has a round smooth elevated brown spot upon each side of its 

 centre. The antennae are very pale brownish, the two basal joints light green. The 

 basal edge of the anterior segment of the thorax is elevated, and there is a more 

 prominent obtuse elevation forward of this, separated from the base by an inter- 

 vening transverse groove. The basal elevation shows a longitudinal impressed line 

 on its middle, and back of this a more strongly impressed line extends across the 

 middle of the anterior elevated lobe of the second segment. The legs are whitish, 

 the feet tinged with dull yellow, with black hooks at their tips. The wings are 

 slightly angulated at their tips, the hind pair more conspicuously so. They are 

 hyaline and glass-like, with a slight opacity at the stigmas or that part of the wing" 

 which is forward of the extremity of the outer margin. Their veins and veinlets are 

 whitish except the two subapical series of veinlets of the anterior pair and those 

 which are given off along the inner side of the rib- vein, which are brownish black. 

 This species measures 1.15 across the wings when spread It was captured the lat- 

 ter part of July, near the summit of Mount Antonio, one of the outliers of the Green- 

 Mountain range, slightly beyond the boundary of our State, in Rupert, Vermont. I 

 name it in honor of my valued friend. Dr. Signoret, of Paris, whose elegant Icono- 

 graph of the Tettigoniides now publishing in the Annals of the Entomological Society 

 as well as his previous productions, are an enduring monument of the extent and 

 accuracy of his researches in that branch of the science to which he devotes himself. 



The species of the genus Chkysopa are all of a bright pale green 

 or yellowish color; the number and situation of the veins and 

 veinlets or short connecting veins in their wings, is the same, 

 and they differ but little in size. To the naked eye they seem'to 

 form but a single species. I had long noticed that individuals of 



