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resembling Chrysopa in most of its details, but instead of having 
the antennae inserted close together, they are separated at their 
bases, and a cylindrical protuberance or horn projects from the 
front between them. For this genus I propose the name Mcleoma, 
formed from two Greek words, implying bad smell, in allusion to 
the odor which in common with several species of Chrysopa , these 
insects exhale. But one species is known to me, which may be 
named and described as follows: 
SigniJhet’s Golden-eyed Fly, (Meleoma Signoretii ) is of a pate yellowish 
green color, and is clothed with fine short pubescence, especially upon the abdomen. 
The cylindrical horn which arises between the base of the antenna; is longer than 
broad, and is directed forwaid upon a lino with the head and thorax. It is a third 
longer and somewhat thicker than tho enlarged basal joints of the antenna;, is 
slightly dilated at its anterior end, where it is abruptly turned downwards almost at 
a right angle, this deflected part forming a thin transverse lamina of a light yellow 
color, vertically striated on its anterior face, and with a projecting acute tooth in the 
middle of its lower margin, which is of a brown color and turned backwards. Upon 
the top of the head is a transverse elevation, with a deep excavation immediately 
back of it. The face has a round smooth elevated brown spot upon each side of its 
centre. The antennae are very pale brownish, the two basal joints light green. The 
basal edge of the anterior segment of the thorax is elevated, and there is a more 
prominent obtuse elevation forward of this, separated from the base by an inter¬ 
vening transverse groove. The basal elevation shows a longitudinal impressed line 
on its middle, and back of this a more strongly impressed line extends across the 
middle of the anterior elevated lobe of the second segment. The legs are whitish, 
the feet tinged with dull yellow, with black hooks at their tips. The wings are 
slightly angulated at their tips, the hind pair more conspicuously so. They are 
hyaline and glass-like, with a slight opacity at the stigmas or that part of the wing 
which is forward of the extremity of the outer margin. Their veins and veinlcts are 
whitish except the two subapical series of veinlets of the anterior pair, and those 
which are given off along the inner side of the rib-vein, which are brow nish black. 
This species measures 1.15 across the wings when spread It was captured the lat¬ 
ter part of July, near the summit of Mount Antonio, one of the outliers of the Green 
Mountain range, slightly beyond the boundary of our State, in Rupert, Vermont. I 
name it in honor of my valued friend, Dr. Signoret, of Paris, whose elegant Icono- 
graph of the Tcttigoniid.es now publishing in the Annals of the Entomological Society 
as well as his previous productions, are an enduring monument of the extent and 
accuracy of his researches in that branch of the science to which he devotes himself. 
The species of the genus Chrysopa are all of a bright pale green 
or yellowish color; the number and situation of the veins anu 
veinlets or short connecting veins in their wings, is the same, 
and they differ hut little in size. To the naked eye they seem to 
form but a single species. I had long notice u that individuals ol 
