Hagen.] 262 [Feb. 3, 



may have been taken from N. Afrieana, which he had not sepa- 

 rated. 



Female. Long. Corp., 11mm. ; al. ant., 24mm. ; al. post., 48 

 mm. Smaller, but in color and shape exactly like the male, ex- 

 cept the following differences : Head smaller ; eyes much smaller 

 and distant twice their diameter ; head not depressed above, on 

 the occiput an engraved transverse line ; on each side near the 

 eyes an impressed hole (the head with the eyes is 2mm. broad ; 

 the head of the male, 3mm.). Prothorax much broader behind 

 than long, dirty-yellow, with a black band in the middle and 

 one on each side ; thorax same color, with a large brown me- 

 dian band, interrupted on the suture and on each side a brown 

 band ; abdomen in bad condition, with similar colors and bands ; 

 legs similar; front wings similar but the tip slightly rounded ; 

 a small darker shade below the mediana after the pterostigma ; 

 a yellowish round spot in each costal-cell nearly to the ptero- 

 stigma ; hind wings similar but shorter. 



I have no doubt that this female belongs to the male, though the 

 wings are rounded at tip instead of pointed. Westwood's figure 

 of N. costalis in the Thesaurus and his description agree perfectly 

 with the specimen before me ; the white nebula is partly visible 

 after the pterostigma ; Westwood's specimen is a little larger. 

 The type of Westwood is preserved in the British Museum. 



10. Wemoptera Afrieana Leach. 



Nemopteryx Afrieana Leach, Zool., Miscell., n, 74> pi. 85, 

 lower fig. 



Nemopteiyx Afrieana Griffith, An. Kingd., xv, 324, pi. 105, 

 fig. 4. 



Nematoptera Afrieana Westw., Ann. Mag. N. Hist., viii, 378, 

 no. 9. 



Nematoptera latipennis Br. Hdb., II, 986, no. 5. 



Nemoptera Afrieana Walk., List. Neur. Brit. Mus., n, 475, 

 no. 14. 



(There is a good copy of Leach's fig. in Bertuch's Bilderbuch, 

 vol. x.) 



I have before me 1 £ and 3 9 all from the Cape of Good Hope, 

 Brege ; long. Corp., 15 to 10mm ; al. ant., 24 to 20mm ; al. post, 

 52 to 42mm. 



