NEUROPTEROUS INSECTS. 
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black; inferior wings not extending beyond the 
fourth abdominal segments; setae hardly longer 
than the body, the incisures black ; feet white ; an- 
terior thighs ferruginous at tip ; anterior tibiae at 
tip, and their tarsal incisures, fuscous. 
Length over one-fourth of an inch, of the setae 
over three-tenths. 
Caught on the window in August. 
4. B. obesa. Body short; wings blackish, with 
a hyaline spot, and numerous smaller ones. 
Inhabits Indiana. 
Body very short and robust, blackish livid; wings 
dark brown or blackish, with numerous small, 
transverse, hyaline spots, or abbreviated lines, and 
a large hyaline, very oblique, semifacia about the 
middle on the anal half; inferior pair, excepting on 
the apicial margin with numerous transverse, abbre- 
viated, hyaline lines ; abdomen with a dull, rufous, 
livid margin to the segments; setae very short, 
hairy, with black incisures; feet pale yellowish; 
incisures of the tarsi black. 
Length over three-tenths of an inch. 
This species is not common. 
The wings are longer than the body, and the 
setae not longer than the abdomen. 
Ephemera. 
E. hilaris. Minute, white; stethidium pale ful- 
vous ; abdomen with three lateral points. 
Inhabits Indiana. 
Body white , eyes black, double ; stethidium pale 
