. Synopsis of the neuroptera of North America [microform] : with a list of the South American species. Neuroptera; Neuroptera; Névroptères; Névroptères. Lenj,nli to lip of wings 38—44 mil'.iin. Alur expanse TO—80 millim. Hah. Savaunali; Washington (Osten Saeken); Alleghany Moun- tains, Virginia (Osten Sacivcn). Dr. IJurnieister's specimen is pale, being a recently excluded one ; a s])ecimcn from Virginia expands 7« niiilini., but it is hardly different; the apices of the aljdoniinal segments are i)ale ; but in Burmeister's si)eeimen and another (IVum Washington), the colors are not distinct. 1
. Synopsis of the neuroptera of North America [microform] : with a list of the South American species. Neuroptera; Neuroptera; Névroptères; Névroptères. Lenj,nli to lip of wings 38—44 mil'.iin. Alur expanse TO—80 millim. Hah. Savaunali; Washington (Osten Saeken); Alleghany Moun- tains, Virginia (Osten Sacivcn). Dr. IJurnieister's specimen is pale, being a recently excluded one ; a s])ecimcn from Virginia expands 7« niiilini., but it is hardly different; the apices of the aljdoniinal segments are i)ale ; but in Burmeister's si)eeimen and another (IVum Washington), the colors are not distinct. 15. M. tectug. Mijrmrhon tictun Walk. Catal. 37S,135. T)lack-gray, robust; head shining, black; mouth liiteous, the eyes half encircled with yellow ; antennae black, subclavate, the base annulated with yellow, shorter than the thorax ; jtalpi luteoiis; prothorax short; nieso- and metathorax margined with testaceous : feet black; tibiae with testaceous bands, those of the posterior ones Ijroader; femora and tarsi testaceous at Iiase ; (abdomen mutilated); wings hyaline, narrow suliaciiminate, ])terostigma white, the anterior ones marked with fuscous ; veins lilack, inter- rupted with yellow. (From the description of Walker.) Length to tip of wings 42 ? millim. Alar expanse 74 millim. J/ah. St. John's ]5hiff, East !''lorida (Doubleday). Do the spurs correspond with this section ? 16. M. crudelia. Jfijniulvon crmlelis Walk. .388, l'>2. Piceous, slender; head anteriorly and beneath testaceous, front l)lack ; vertex ferruginous, antenme ferruginous, clavate, the apex piceous, shorter than the thorax ; prothorax long, testaceous, with three piceous vittiu ; meso- and metathorax margined with testa- ceous ; abdomen shorter than the wings; feet testaceous; wings hyaline, "arrow, subacute ; jiterostigma oljsolcti!, whitish ; veins whitish ; subcostal and sid)median veins interrupted with fuscous. (From the description of Walker.) Length to tip of wings 30 millim.
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