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New North American Neuroptera 
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A FEW NEW NORTH AMERICAN NEUROPTERA 
By Nathan Banks 
Museum of Comparative Zoology, Harvard University 
In the course of determinations the following species 
have been detected and described as new. 
Psammoleon arizonensis sp. nov. 
In general similar to P. sinuatus, but smaller and separ- 
ated by the marks of head, and the two dark marks on wings 
are not connected. In P. sinuatus the front edge of vertex 
is marked by a row of four distinct spots or scars, in this 
new species the median two scars are united into a large 
dark brown diamond-shaped mark ; on the middle of vertex 
behind in arizonensis is a pair of small pale spots which in 
sinuatus are black spots united to the second vertex band. 
The pronotum shows, more or less plainly, the pale median 
line and two pale spots each side. The abdomen shows two 
pale above on each segment. The tarsi and claws are sim- 
ilar to P. sinuatus. The wings show the two oblique dark 
marks about as oblique as in sinuatus, but no connecting 
mark; the hind wings have a dark cloud on hind margin 
as in P. sinuatus. 
Fore wings 26 mm. long, 5 mm. wide. Hind wings 24 
mm. long, 4 mm. wide. 
From Phoenix, 10, June; and Tucson, Arizona 25, July. 
(Streets collr.). Type M. C. Z. no. 20119. 
Psammoleon decipiens sp. nov. 
In general very similar to P. guttipes. Readily separ- 
ated therefrom by the marks of the head. Above the inter- 
antennal mark is a transverse pale band above which is a 
velvety dark brown band from eye to eye, broader in middle, 
behind this on vertex another transverse pale band, and 
behind this another dark band (in guttipes the dark of in- 
terantennal mark extends up to the transverse row of four 
