186 NEUROPTER A OF NORTH AMERICA. 



apex ; seven antecubitals ; five postcubitals ; two discoidal are- 

 olets. 



Length 23 millim. Alar expanse 36 millim. Pterostigma 2 

 millim. 



Hab. Maryland ; New Jersey ; Bay of Campeachy ; Cuba ; 

 Venezuela ; Bahia, St. Leopold, Brazil. 



Var. 1. Indiana, Pennsylvania, Massachusetts, New York, 

 Louisiana ; Matamoras, Mexico ; Atlihauzan (Saussure). * 



Var. 2. Mexico, Alvarado ; Brazil. 



I saw in the collection of Schneider, Uracis fastigiata Burm., 

 from Mexico ; the habitat is perhaps erroneous ; it is a meridional 

 species. 



NANNOPHYA Ramb. 



Eyes connected in a short space ; posterior lobe of the pro- 

 thorax entire; abdomen shorter than the wings, slender, triquetral; 

 the appendages short; genital organs not prominent; reticulation 

 of the wings large and simple ; the triangle large, broad ; the first 

 sector of the triangle sinuated. 



1. N. bella ! 



Nannophya bella Uhler! Proc. Acad. Philad. 1857, 87, 1. 



9 . Black ; mouth black, front and epistoma white, the former 

 with a large quadrangular, black spot, labrum black ; vertex chaly- 

 beous ; thorax black, dorsum each side with an interrupted, yel- 

 low line ; sides with two oblique stripes and a triangular patch 

 behind, interrupted, yellow ; abdomen black, the base, a band at 

 the base of segments 3 and 4, a spot at the base of 5 — 7, that upon 

 7 almost obsolete, minute, and the dorsum of the last segment, 

 yellow, segments 8 — 9 entirely black ; feet black ; appendages yel- 

 low ; vulvar lamina large, reaching to the tip of the last segment, 

 triangular, excavated ; wings hyaline, fulvous at base ; pterostigma 

 small, black; 6 — 7 antecubitals; 5 — 6 postcubitals; one discoidal 

 areolet, then two. 



Length 18 millim. Alar expanse 32 millim. Pterostigma 1J 

 millim. 



J\ Black, pruinose ; mouth black, front white, with a quad- 

 rangular black spot inferiorly ; vertex chalybeous ; thorax and 

 abdomen black, very pruinose ; feet black (apex of the abdomen 



