Hagen.J 288 [March 17, 



Perhaps this is the Hemerobius subanticus Walk., Neur. Br. 

 Mus., p. 282, no. 13. The darker specimens do not disagree with 

 the description, but H. subanticus is said to have only three sec- 

 tors. The type in the British Museum of this species will decide 

 the question ; among my notes made in London I find H. subanti- 

 cus is a Micromus with very narrow wings. 



11. Micromus calidus. 



Micromus calidus Hag., Wien. Z. B. Ges., ix, 207, no. 126. 



Long c. al. 8 mm. ; exp. al. 14 mm. 



Brownish black with pale villosity ; head above black, densely 

 villous, occiput somewhat elevated ; front glossy pale with trans- 

 verse maculose brown bands ; between the antennae black ; the two 

 basal joints of antennae black, the following brownish, the apical 

 third blackish brown, shortly villous ; palpi pale ; prothorax black 

 with two globular tubercles near the base ; mesothorax black ; legs 

 whitish, pilose ; four anterior on femur and tibia with three black- 

 ish rings, one basal, one apical and one in middle ; last tarsal joint 

 and claws dark; front wings short, nearly half as broad as long, 

 apex elliptical ; hyaline, gra3 r ish-fumose, part between the gradate 

 series and at the base near the hind margin paler, whitish, faintly 

 mottled with gray on the posterior half; veins blackish-brown, 

 strongly interrupted with white, also on the front margin ; six sec- 

 tors black at base ; three faint transversals on the tip of the sub- 

 costal space ; external series with nine black gradate veins, the 

 uppermost placed more internally ; inner series with five black 

 gradate ; both series parallel except in the anterior third ; at the 

 base a short maculose black stripe ; hind wings hyaline, grayish- 

 fumose, veins pale, pterostigma part transversally blackish ; ex- 

 ternal series with eight black gradate, also their forks dark ; in- 

 ternal series with five gradate ; abdomen dark brown, last segment 

 luteous ; two straight short spines above the lower valve of the 

 male and a dagger-like spine between the superior valves, perhaps 

 the penis. 



Hab. Ceylon, Rainbodde, Nietner. 



In the last lot received from Rainbodde by Mr. Nietner were 

 three specimens in alcohol. One female belongs to M. austral is. 

 Another female is doubtful, entirely yellow and the wings pale, 

 yellow in the pterostigmatical part, veins yellow, the beginning of 



