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Banks — Western Chrysopidae ( Neuroptera ) 
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6. Vertex at least in front rufous, no marks or few; cross-veins 
of fore wings rather fine, face with few or no marks. 
rufifrons sp. nov. 
Vertex mostly pale, with reddish or darker lines; face below 
antennae more or less plainly rufous, cross-veins of fore wing 
noticeably heavy altilis sp. nov. 
Eremochrysa punctinervis McLach. 
Female. — Head with line below each eye extending towards 
mouth; a row of three black spots (often connected) across clypeus; 
below antennal sockets usually a transverse band (yellowish to 
rufous) ; a black spot between the bases of the antennae, and ex- 
tended behind on vertex as two slender divergent lines. Palpi partly 
dark. Basal antennal joint usually with one nearly complete dark 
line and one or two dark spots; second antennal joint with a dark 
ring. 
Pronotum with two broad brown or reddish brown spots on each 
side, usually more or less connected, and sometimes with median 
extensions ; usually a dark median line ; me so- and metanotum 
usually with dark or black spots laterally. 
Wings with both longitudinal and cross-veins dotted with black 
(dark), sometimes some of the cross-veins are wholly dark, espe- 
cially the costals ; the markings are more prominent on the fore 
wings, and sometimes venation of hind wings is almost wholly pale. 
The hairs on pronotum are short and black, on the abdomen often 
longer but mostly, at least, black. 
The males are usually less completely marked; at the tip of the 
abdomen of the male there is a lower process, projecting more or 
less conical, and provided with short hairs among which are some 
reclinate stiff bristles, some almost spine-like. 
The type is from Texas, but the species is widely distributed in 
the western states, most common in the southern ones; eastward it 
extends to Florida. 
Eremochrysa fraterna Bks. 
A long black streak on each cheek; three, usually elongate, dark 
spots form a line across clypeus ; below antennal sockets sometimes 
a transverse dark line, or often broken in middle; between the 
antennae two dark (black) lines extend up and on the vertex and 
