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PLATE CeCxy. 
RAPHIDIA OPHIOPSIS. 
NEUROPTERA. 
CEN ERE HAR AGIOS Ri 
Head depreffed or flat. Mouth armed with two teeth, and fur- 
nifhed with four palpi. Three ftemmata. Wings defle€ted. An- 
tenne long as the thorax, anterior part of which is lengthened out 
and cylindrical. ‘T’ail of the female terminated by a flexible crooked 
briftle. 
SCE LC CHAR IG Tab R: 
Thorax cylindrical ; a brown marginal {pot on each wing. 
RaPHIDIA Opuiopsis: thorace cylindrico, alis macula marginali 
ities 
Rapuipia Opuiorsis. Linn. Syft. Nat. 
Raphidia notata. Fab. Spec. Inf. 1. p. 402. 106. fp. 1. 
Koc) inf eataoy 2 va, Or, 
Scopali, Carn. 711. 
Schaype lc 1ab Oy. 1. 2 
Elem. tab. 107. 
We can fcarcely conceive what motive induced Fabricius to con- 
found the Raphidia Ophiopfis and notata as one fpecies in his laft 
work, after having defcribed both with accuracy in his former pub- 
lication: it appears indeed, that his names were erroneous, and his 
fynonyms mifapplied; but it was needlefs to corre&t one error by 
committing another. 
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