. Annals of the South African Museum. Annale van die Suid-Afrikaanse Museum. Natural history. South African Neuroptera. 517 with pale auuulations at the joints. Basal joint brownish red above, yellowish below. Prothorax broader than long, front angles rounded, disc yellowish with irregular brownish red markings and dark hairs. Meso- and metathorax with blackish brown spots. Abdomen reddish brown dorsally, yellowish ventrally. Legs yellowish ; femora with a reddish brown streak near their apex dorsally ; tibiae with a reddish brown band near base and another close to their apex ; tarsi pale bro
. Annals of the South African Museum. Annale van die Suid-Afrikaanse Museum. Natural history. South African Neuroptera. 517 with pale auuulations at the joints. Basal joint brownish red above, yellowish below. Prothorax broader than long, front angles rounded, disc yellowish with irregular brownish red markings and dark hairs. Meso- and metathorax with blackish brown spots. Abdomen reddish brown dorsally, yellowish ventrally. Legs yellowish ; femora with a reddish brown streak near their apex dorsally ; tibiae with a reddish brown band near base and another close to their apex ; tarsi pale brownish; claws brown and slightly widened basally. Wings broad and with rounded apex. A brown spot close to the base of C in both pairs of the wings. JSTervature yellowish. Pterostigma yellowish green and rather conspicuous. The longitudinal veins with brownish black streaks at the junction with the cross-veins. Rs blackish at its FIG. 3.—Fore- and hinchving of Chrysopa venosella. All the cross-veins and all the veins along the hind and apical margin brownish black at their ends. In the forewing the cross-veins and the marginal veins are mostly blackish brown, and only a narrow band in their middle part is yellowish. The following cross-veins in the fore- wing are totally blackish : the three basal cross-veins between Rs and Psm ; the cross-vein from the furcation of J/to Cu; the two cross-veins between CK-^ and Cu2 (the apical one is also strongly brownish shaded at its lower end), and all the cross-veins in the gradate series ; in the inner series they are also narrowly brownish shaded. In the forewing 18-21 costal cross-veins ; 9 cross-veins between R and Rs; 3 cross-veins between Rs and Psm; the basal cross-vein joins M within the basal median cell; 6 cross-veins between Psm and Pscu ; 10 branches from Pscu to the hind margin (the two apical ones are forked). In the. Please note that these images are extracted from scanned page images that may have been digitally e
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