8 Winter Insects of Eastern New York. [May, 
ed description of that species given by M. Ramber, (Suites a Buf- 
Son, Insectes Nevropteres, Paris, 1842,) it is quite obvious that 
ours is a distinct insect. 
5. Curex nyemauis. The Winter “ Musketoe.”’ 
Thorax cinereous, with a broad black vitta on each side; ex- 
treme tips of the wings and two spots on their anterior margins 
black, with two intervening sericeous yellowish-white spots. 
Length 0.22; to the tips of the wings 0.28, or including the 
beak 0.39. 
Head cinereous-pubescent, occiput black-pubescent. Proboscis 
black, its apex cinereous. Palpi black, the tips varied with gray. 
Antenne black, tips brown. Thorax cinereous-pubescent, with a 
broad rufous-black vitta on each side, passing above the wing- 
sockets; the vitta often ee on its upper side with yellowish- 
white; a very slender, black, dorsal line, often partially obsolete. 
Scutel glabrous, dark brown. Poisers black, their pedicels white. 
Abdomen clothed with longish gray hairs, black or dark brown, 
with two rows of whitish spots on each side; in the males obscure 
white, the posterior margins of the segments black. Wings sub- 
hyaline, with two blackish spots on the anterior margin, separated 
by a conspicuous glossy yellowish-white spot; inner spot with a 
strong notch on its posterior side which is formed by a yellowish- 
white dot, and a similar dot is placed on the inner side of this spot; 
outer spot with an oblique yellowish-white band on its outer side, 
beyond which, at the tip of the wing, is a slight blackish trans- 
verse spot. Under a magnifier, these spots are found to be produ- 
ced by the colors of the scales upon the nerves of the wings, 
which scales are regularly and beautifully dyed with black and 
yellowish white, as follows: the posterior or anal nerve has black 
scales the last half of its entire length, and also at its base: the 
next or interno-medial nerve, which forks in its middle, is clothed 
throughout with black scales, including both its branches: the 
next or externo-medial has black scales on the basal fourth of its 
length, two broad annuli of black scales on its middle, another an- 
nulus at its fork, and a fifth series at the tips of each of its branch- 
es; the next is clothed with black scales through its entire length: 
the next is black where it first becomes plainly visible in the mid- 
dle of the wing, again for a short distance after the origin of the 
preceding nerve, again for a considerale space at its fork, and 
again at the apex of its posterior branch only: the costal and the 
marginal nerves have black scales from their bases; these become 
much more dense at the black spots of the anterior margin, and 
are replaced by yellowish scales only between these spots and be- 
yond the entire one. Legs black; femurs pale towards their ba- 
ses; tips of femurs and of tibie whitish. Coxe pale. 
