Hagen.j 256 [Feb. 3, 



One male from the Palmiet river between Capetown and Swel- 

 lenclam, in February, on a hill covered with shrubs ; very rare. 

 The specimen is in my collection. Mr. Tollin gives the following 

 notes : brown above, yellow below ; antennae thin, setaceous, 

 nearly as long as the body ; front wings hyaline, with no spots ; 

 neuration fine, one-fourth longer than the body ; hind wings very 

 narrow, dilated near the tip, turned in a spiral manner, alternately 

 black and white, three times longer than the body. Long. corp. 

 19mm. ; long. al. ant. 25mm. ; long. al. post. 51mm. ; long. ant. 

 18mm. ; lat. al. ant. 9mm. ; lat. dilatat. al. post. 3mm. 



Head reddish-brown above ; near each eye a yellow line ; eyes 

 globose, a little more than their diameter apart ; a brown, round, 

 shining spot behind each antenna; antennae very thin, a little 

 shorter than the body, brown above, yellow below ; first joint 

 much larger than the other, above about quadrangular, shining 

 brown ; second short, half as large ; all the rest thinner, cylin- 

 drical ; third twice as long as broad, the following very little 

 longer than broad ; the articulations above with a faint, white 

 line ; beak nearly as long as head and prothorax, dark yellow, 

 above a brown quadrangular spot on the base ; apical part with 

 a brownish tinge ; maxillary and labial palpi dark brown with 

 pale articulations ; last joint of the labial palpi as long as the 

 preceding one, blackish brown, shining. Prothorax about as 

 broad as long, anterior margin convex, posterior strongly con- 

 cave ; above reddish brown, with a large, lateral yellow band 

 (perhaps, better, thorax yellow, with a broad dorsal reddish brown 

 band) ; thorax a little larger, yellow, above reddish brown ; ab- 

 domen unusually long for Nemoptera and very thin, more similar 

 to the abdomen of a M^rmeleon ; at the end, which is closed up, 

 two bent-up, cylindrical appendages, closely pressed to the last 

 segment ; abdomen above reddish-brown ; sides below, and ap- 

 pendages, yellow, with short, blackish hairs, more dense at the 

 tip of the abdomen. Mr. Tollin remarks that the living insect 

 had the abdomen about 2mm. thick ; legs long, yellow ; first joint 

 of tarsi longer than the three following together ; claws strong, 

 blackish. 



Wings h} T aline ; costa straight, more than two-thirds of its 

 length ; hind margin strongly rounded ; largest part of the wing 

 before the apical third ; veins dark brown with fine, dark hairs ; 

 pterostigma very small, quadrangular, brown, just above the end 



