NOTES AND DESCRIPTIONS OF WESTERN 
CHRYSOPIDAE (NEUROPTERA) 1 
By Nathan Banks 
Holliston, Mass. 
For some years Chrysopidae have been accumulating in the col- 
lection at the Museum of Comparative Zoology, and in recent years 
I have received, with other Neuropteroids, many specimens from 
Grace H. and John L. Sperry, especially from California and Ari- 
zona, from Prof. A. L. Melander also material from the same states, 
and from P. H. Arnaud specimens from California. During the sum- 
mer of 1948 two students, F. Werner and W. Nutting, made an 
automobile trip to the southwest and to Mexico, and captured many 
hundreds more. 
Most of the new species are from the western part of the United 
States and this paper is devoted to their description. 
Many of the new forms are in the Eremochrysa section, so I have 
tabulated them, and made new descriptions of some of the old 
species. 
Genus Meleoma 
The males of the species of Meleoma can be recognized by the 
interantennal process. In the western States are four species, to 
these I add three more, two of them from California; another spe- 
cies occurs in Arizona, but the specimen has no antennae, so I leave 
it undescribed. 
Meleoma comata sp. nov. 
A species similar to M. emuncta with a different interantennal 
piece, the wings less coarsely haired. 
Green; a medium white stripe from vertex back over the abdomen; 
in the female there is a faint trace of a reddish stripe before the 
side-margin; legs greenish, tarsi soiled whitish; antennae mostly 
pale, first joint green. Venation green, a few crossveins dark, 
mostly toward wing-base; several costals toward base, and some 
1 Published with a grant from the Museum of Comparative Zoology at 
Harvard College. 
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