1950] 
Banks — Western Chrysopidae (Neuroptera) 
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Pronotum short and broad, roundedly narrowed in front; three 
small dark marks on front part, not plainly marked on sides. Rest 
of thorax not very plainly marked, pale above. Legs pale, unmarked, 
tarsi a little darker. 
Abdomen pale brownish above, last two segments pale, the two 
before them plainly brown above. 
Wings long and slender; fore wings with cross-veins, costals, and 
gradates brown, the veins dark only at joining; divisory vein dark 
and ending at or just beyond the cross-vein above. Costal area 
slender; some cells toward base are twice as long as broad; twelve 
or thirteen costals, six radials, and six cubitals, beyond the divisory 
cell. Between end of medius and end of radial sector but two 
branches reach outer margin. One or two inner and one to four outer 
gradates, rather far apart. In hind wing the veins are paler, but 
none dotted. Length of fore wing, 8 to 9 mm. 
Described from Santa Clara Co., California; I have seen but one 
other specimen, it is from Globe, Arizona, II April 1935 (Parker). 
Eremochrysa (Lolochrysa) vosemite sp. nov. 
Face white; a broad black cheek-mark reaching to the side of 
clypeus ; a black dot between bases of antennae; basal antennal joint 
dark brown on whole of upper side; second joint black. Elevated 
area of vertex a broad dark stripe on each side, connected in front, 
and a dark spot each side in the lateral groove, close to eye. Pro- 
notum plainly narrowed in front, a little longer than broad behind; 
two dark spots near front margin, with a streak reaching back, a 
spot in middle of each side margin, a spot near each side connecting 
through the middle spot; another larger dark spot covering each 
hind corner. Thorax pale but with large dark spots on the lateral 
lobes ; and on the sides, of the anterior lobe, and on its hind border. 
Abdomen above black ; a broad white mark on first segment 
above, a smaller one on second ; fourth and fifth white above, with 
dark spots at each end, and traces of a median line ; sixth and 
seventh black ; eighth mostly black but with a pale spot over most 
of apical part; ninth pale. The hairs mostly white and rather short. 
Legs pale, the hind femur with a dark mark above near middle of 
length. 
Wings with all cross-veins wholly dark, those on disc of fore wings 
plainly bordered, and a dark spot covering the origin of the radial 
sector. But three branches of radial sector reaching hind border; 
