NEUROPTEROUS INSECTS. 
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towards the tip of each segment ; anal appendices 
deflected, longer than the inferior conic one, mucro- 
n ate, and with a strong tooth on the inferior mid- 
dle; feet blackish, venter pale. 
Length one inch and a half. 
Variety. The ferruginous tinge of the base of 
the wings, extending to the middle ; that of the su- 
perior pair chiefly on the anterior half of the wing ; 
that of the inferior pair more obvious, much broader, 
extending nearly to the thinner margin. 
Length one inch and two-fifths. 
I have found many individuals of this species. 
V. L. ferruginea. Enc. Meth., 565. 
15. L. semicincta. Wings tinted on the basal 
half with pale ferruginous; anal processes with 
an angle beneath near the tip. 
Inhabits Indiana and Massachusetts. 
£ Antennae black, with a blackish line between 
them ; thorax brownish ; pleura yellowish ; wings 
hyaline ; stigma rather small, its marginal nervures 
thick and black ; basal half more or less tinted with 
pale ferruginous, particularly on the inferior wings ; 
about seven marginal cellules between the middle 
and the stigma; anal membrane white; abdomen 
with a dorsal and lateral edge ; paler at base, and 
with a lateral black line ; anal processes deflected, 
rectilinear, cylindrical, with three or four minute 
denticulations beneath, an angle beneath near the 
tip, and the tip acute ; inferior process extending 
nearly to the tip of the superior pair. 
Length about one inch. 
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