190 NEUROPTERA OF NORTH AMERICA. 



tarsi fuscous ; anterior wings subcinereous, obscurely clouded with 

 fuscous, veins interruptedly white. Female. 



Length of body 35 — 46 millim. Alar expanse 64 — 80 millira. 



Hab. Savannah ; South Carolina (Zimmerman). 



3. Ch. californicus ! 



Chauliodes calif ornic us Walker! Catal. 199, 4. — Hermes dubitatus Walker! 

 Catal. 204, 6. Female. 



Brownish-black ; mouth rufous ; antennae serrate ? (almost alto- 

 gether mutilated); occiput with rufous, somewhat shining, flat 

 streaks and spots ; prothorax each side posteriorly with a flexuous, 

 obsolete, rufous stripe, elevated and more obsolete in the middle ; 

 feet black ; anterior wings cinereous, the longitudinal veins trans- 

 versely lineated with fuscous ; a basal, brownish-black streak, and 

 sometimes apical ones upon the costal margin of all the wings. 



Length to tip of wings 45 — 60 millim. Alar expanse TO — 100 

 millim. 



Hab. California (Hartweg). 



4. Ch. virginiensis. 



Chauliodes virginiensis Westw. ed. Drury, I, 105 ; tab. xlvi, fig. 3. — 

 Hemerobius virginiensis Drury, 111. II, App. — Hemerobius pectinicornis 

 Palisot Beauv. Ins. Afr. et Amer. Neuropt. tab. i, fig. 2; Walk. 

 Catal. 200, 6. 



Head and thorax black, pointed with fulvous ; wings broad, 

 hyaline, the veins pointed with black. (From the description of 

 Walker.) 



Alar expanse 12 millim. 



Hab. Virginia. 



Unknown to me ; is it a distinct species ? I cannot examine 

 the authority reported by Mr. Westwood : I saw the identical 

 specimen figured by Palisot Beauv., in the collection of De Selys 

 Longchamps ; it differs a little from Ch. pectinicornis Linn. ; but 

 I neglected to make a more complete description of it. 



5. Ch. serricornis ! 



Chauliodes serricornis Say, Long's Exped. II, Append. 307. 



Fuscous ; head rufous, the disk fuscous, the occiput with flat 

 rufous streaks ; antennas black, serrate ; prothorax each side with 

 an impressed, rufous spot j feet luteo-fuscous, the tarsi obscurer ; 



