210 NEUROPTERA OF NORTH AMERICA. 



4. M. moesta! 



Mantispa moesta Hagen ! 



Brownish-black ; palpi fuscous ; face fuscous, transversely ru- 

 gose ; front depressed, rufous, a spot between the antennae, a black 

 band posteriorly; antennae fuscous; prothorax dilated anteriorly, 

 luteous, margined with black ; posteriorly narrower, cylindrical, 

 transversely sulcated; abdomen black, apex of segments 1 and 

 2 margined with yellow ; 3 and 4 polished at base, with very nu- 

 merous red points ; anterior feet black, first article of the tarsi 

 exteriorly varied with yellow ; posterior femora fuscous, with the 

 apex yellow, tibiae yellow, with an external fuscous spot ; wings 

 fuscous, shining ; twelve discoidal areoles ; a gradate vein upon 

 areoles 6 and T. (Female.) 



Length to tip of wings 27 millim. Alar expanse 41 millim. 



Hab. Tennessee (Saussure). 



MELEOMA Fitch. 



A genus not seen by me, allied to Chrysopa, but the bases of 

 the antennae are distant, and there is an intermediate frontal horn. 

 (Asa Fitch.) 



1. M. signoretii. 



Meleoma signoretii Fitch, Report I, 82. • 



Yellowish-green, pale, sparingly pilose ; between the antennae a 

 cylindrical horn, which is longer than the basal joint of the an- 

 tennae, defiexed anteriorly into a lamina, upon the middle of which 

 is a black tooth ; face each side with a fuscous spot, antennae pale 

 fuscous, the two basal articles green, the first elongated, thicker ; 

 base of the prothorax elevated ; feet whitish, tarsi yellowish, with 

 the apex black ; apex of the wings a little angulated, hyaline, 

 pterostigma a little opaque ; veins whitish, gradate veins, and 

 transverse ones of the interior side of the radius, black. (From 

 the description of Dr. Fitch.) 



Length to tip of wings 15 ? millim. Alar expanse 21 millim. 



Hab. Mt. Antonio, Rupert, Vermont, July (Asa Fitch). 



2, M. longicornis. 



Osmylus longicornis Walk. Catal. 235, 8. 



Testaceous, somewhat marked with fuscous ; antennae longer 



