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NEUROPTEROUS INSECTS. 
is a reference to L. marcjinata, Degeer. Wings 
fuscous from the base nearly to the middle. 
L. dimidiata, Fabr. V. Enc. Meth. refers to 
Seba, which is quite different. Said to be from 
Surinam, and is much smaller, to which species the 
above described insect seems to bear some resem- 
blance in the arrangement of its colors. — Ed.] 
11. L. eponina. U pper wings bifasciate, and with a 
spot near the base ; lower wings with a band and 
interrupted one, and subbasal line and spot. 
Inhabits Pennsylvania and Indiana. 
L. eponina , Drury, Vol. II., pi. 47, fig. 2. Oliv. 
Enc. Meth., p. 572, No. 19. 
Wings pale ferruginous ; upper pair with a sub- 
basal spot, band in the middle, and another band be- 
fore the stigma, fuscous ; inferior wings with a cor- 
responding band towards the tip, interrupted band 
in the middle, undulated, longitudinal line at the 
base, and spot near the anal angle, fuscous ; anal 
membrane white ; stigma yellowish. 
Length nearly one inch and a half. 
A beautiful and strongly marked species. 
12. L. acuta. Wings immaculate; body green- 
ish-yellow ; abdomen with the edges blackish. 
Inhabits Mexico. 
9 Body greenish-yellow ; eyes approaching above, 
but hardly touching, the nearest parts not rounded, 
almost acute ; orbits before and above with a black 
edge; stethidium immaculate; abdomen pale yel- 
lowish-brown, yellowish green at base ; the acute 
longitudinal edges, above and each side, black ; the 
