No. 3. — Xew Xeuropteroid Insects. By Natblvx Banks. In the course of identifying the Xeuropteroid insects in the Museum numerous new species Avere found; some of these are herewith de-scribed. In several cases Dr. Hagen had given manuscript names, and in a few cases these have been ptibhshed, as the South American species in the appendix to his Synopsis of the Xetiroptera of N^orth America. Wherever possible I have retained his manuscript name. PSOCIDAE. Psocus ALBOVARirs, sp. nov. Type.— M. C. Z. 10,780. Straits Settlements: Singapore (C. F. Baker). Head whitish, ocelli on a black spot, a dark median spot on vertex, and one below ocelli; nose faintly lineate with dark; antennae pale; thorax pale, with three large dark spots above in front; abdomen pale, darker at tip; legs whitish. Wings lightly fumose, except at base; stigma white, with a dark central spot; veins dark, stigmal vein white, veins at corners of the discal cell, the lower side of cell, the median vein shortly before cell and just beyond cell, and the forking of the radial sector prominently white; hind wings hyaUne, venation pale. Discal cell much narrowed below, sides nearly straight; areola postica very long and low, its upper side a Uttle longer than the outer side; posterior cells subequal; fork of radial sector more than twice as long as the pedicel; median vein and radial sector united for short distance; stigma of medium size, about its length before tip of wing, nearly right-angled behind. Length to tip of wing 3.6 mm. Psocus siMiL.\Ris, sp. nov. Type. — M. C. Z. 10,779. Straits Settlements: Singapore (C. F. Baker). Head brown, with a few small black spots and lines, one back of the ocelli; nose Uned with black; antennae brown on basal part, beyond black, with some long hairs; thorax pale, a large black spot on each lateral lobe, and two spots on the anterior lobe; legs pale, tibiae and tarsi darker, abdomen dark, a white
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