REDESCRIPTION OF 
SPILOCONIS PICTICORNIS BANKS 
(NEUROPTERA: CONIOPTERYGIDAE) 1 
By F. M. Carpenter 
Harvard University 
Within the past two years several lots of specimens of 
Spiloconis picticornis Banks have been sent to me from 
the Department of Biological Control at the Citrus Experi- 
ment Station, California. Some of these were secured on 
Hong Kong, China, by Dr. S. Flanders; but most of them 
were reared at the Citrus Experiment Station from stock 
obtained on Hong Kong. This extensive series of specimens 
has made possible the preparation of a more detailed de- 
scription of the species than could be achieved from the 
unique female type on which the species was originally 
based. 
I am indebted to M. E. Badgley, C. A. Fleschner, and 
J. C. Hall, all of the Citrus Experiment Station, for pro- 
viding me with specimens used in this study. An account 
of the biology of picticornis by these investigators follows 
in the present issue of Psyche; it is a significant account, 
since little is known about the biology of the coniopterygids 
in general and nothing at all has previously been known 
about the life history of any species of Spiloconis. 
The genus Spiloconis was erected by Enderlein in 1907, 
within the subfamily Aleuropteryginae, to include two 
species. One of these, sexguttata Enderlein (genotype), 
was known only from Japan, though Enderlein later (1908) 
recorded it from Formosa as well; the other was maculata 
Enderlein, from New South Wales, originally described 
(1906) in Helicoconis. A third species, interrupta, was 
described from Mindanao (Philippines) by Banks, in 1937. 
A fourth species, picticornis, was described from Hainan, 
by the same author, in 1939. Finally, Banks (1939) trans- 
1 Published with a grant from the Museum of Comparative Zoology at 
Harvard College. 
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