Hagen.] 252 [Feb. 3, 



Spain, sent to him by Loeffling. I have not seen the original 

 edition of Hasselquist's voyage, where his species is quoted as 

 Ephemera Coa ; in the French edition, n, 62, no. 109, it is given 

 as Panorpa Coa, but there is nothing more than the name. 



Scriba, Beitr.z. Insect. Gesch.,1791, Pars 2, p. 155, pi. 11, f. 1, 

 has a tolerable figure of N. sinuata, described as P. Coa. 



Guerin, Hist. nat. Ins. par De Tigny, 1830, vn, pi. 65 bis, f. 

 3, has given a figure of N. sinuata, but p. 102 only the description 

 of N. Coa. Guerin's figure is the only one known to me with the 

 name of the species. Blanchard's figure in Cuvier, Edit, v, Masson, 

 pi. 102, f. 2, belongs to N. sinuata, but is named N. Coa in the 

 explanation of the plate. Brulle, Exped. sc. de Moree, p. 276, 

 states that Alex. Lefebvre reports collecting N. sinuata in June 

 on the plains of Modon, Greece, but he adds that he (Brulle) has 

 never met this species in Greece. Mr. Lucas, Ann. Soc. Ent., 

 1883, Bull., p. 116, speaks at some length on this species found 

 near Antiochia and compares it with N. Lusitanica. Westwood, 

 Ann. Mag. Nat. Hist., viii, 376, named this species N. Petiveri, 

 after the first figure given of it. 



2. Nemoptera iEgyptiaca Rbr. 



I have never seen this species, which I wrongly united in my 

 synopsis with N. sinuata. Brulle, Exped. Moree, p. 276, note, re- 

 marks that the figure by Savigny, Exped. Egypte, Neur. pi. 2, f. 15, 

 seems to belong to N. Coa and not to N. sinuata, Rambur, Neur. p. 

 334, no. 3, has described this species from a colored copy (I have 

 only seen uncolored copies) of Savign}' as N. iEgyptiaca. The front 

 wings are without the two black marginal patches, always present 

 in N. Coa. The bands are mostly maculose ; the round hyaline 

 spots in the base of the black costal space of the enlarged figure 

 of Savigny are wanting in the figure of natural size, and also in 

 Westwood's N. hebraica, a species from northern Palestine, The- 

 saur., p. 178, no. 2, pi. 33, f. 5. 



Westwood quotes, with a query, N. JEgyptiaca Rbr., as a syn- 

 onyme. M'Lachlan, I. c, p. 379, states he possesses the same 

 species, "which is undoubtedly that figured by Savigny." It is per- 

 haps not safe to give a negative opinion about a species vouched 

 for by such eminent entomologists without having seen a speci- 

 men ; nevertheless, I believe more sufficient characters should be 

 given to establish this species. 



Westwood's and M'Lachlan's specimens were collected in north- 



