ON THE HEMEROBIINAE OF JAPAN. 



2 S 



longitudinal veins pale yellow, spotted with brown rather evenly ; crossveins 

 blackish, slightly margined with greyish ; a heavy dark brown spot on the 

 crossvein connecting median and cubitus. Three radial sectors, of which 

 the third is forked twice or three times before outer gradate series ; median 

 is bent toward cubitus at connecting veinlet. 



Hindwing with apical and hind marginal areas slightly tinged with 

 greyish ; neuration mostly pale ; gradate veinlets mostly blackish. 



Abdomen brownish on both dorsal and ventral sides. Genital 

 appendage long, with two processes on apex, one long and the other very 

 short ; lower limb very short, not more than one third the length of the 

 upper limb. 



Measurements : 



Length of body 5 — 7 ram. 



Length of forewing 6.5 — 8.5 mm. 



Width of forewing 3 — 4 mm. 



Length of hindwing 5.5 — 6.5 mm. 



Habitat : A large series of specimens from the following localities are 

 in my collection : 



Kyoto, March and April, '14, Mr. A. Nohira coll. 

 Osaka, July, '14, Mr. A. Nohira coll. 



Akakura, Prov. Echigo, August, '14, Mr. A. Nohira coll. 

 Nikko, July, '14, the author coll. 

 Sapporo, Hokkaido, Mr. H. Okamoto coll. 

 So far as I know, this species is here recorded from Japan for the first 

 time. It is known also from Europe, Siberia and North America. 



Hemerobiiis Japonicus n. sp. 



(Textfig. 3 and 4). 



Body yellowish. Head pale yellow with genre and both sides of 

 vertex blackish ; maxillary palpus blackish ; labial palpus testaceous yellow 

 with blackish apical joint. Antenna? yellowish, somewhat darker at apex. 



