Mepleres ornatus, N.Banks, 1942

Banks, Nathan, 1942, Neuropteroid Insects from Guam, Insects of Guam I, Honolulu, Hawaii: Bernice P. Bishop Museum, pp. 25-30 : 27

5. Mepleres ornatus , new species (fig. 1, h).

Head and thorax rather rufous, both with long, nearly erect, pale hairs, numerous on the lower part of face; legs yellowish; antennae yellowish with many long, stiff hairs; abdomen yellowish brown, short. Wings whitish, with whitish veins, except in the brown areas. Forewing with a transverse mark behind base of stigma back to hind margin, connected to a broad median streak behind radial sector over the median but stopping before fork of medius, and extending above to costal margin beyond stigma, and behind over basal part of the areola postica. Hindwings with a faint brown mark over the basal part of radial sector and wing tip faintly clouded. Hairs along veins and wing margin long as usual. Fore wing slender; stigma as long as width of wing, but not enlarged beyond middle, sides parallel; radial sector and medius united for a short distance; fork of radial sector wide at base and as long as its stem; fork of medius very slender and about one half as long as fork of radial sector. Areola postica very long, nearly as long as the stigma, nearly evenly convex, and at greatest width much wider than the space above to the medius. In the hind wing, the union of radial sector and medius is twice as long as in forewing; the branch of radial sector is much nearer to the forking than to the tip of wing. Length of forewing, 2 111111

Piti, July S, 1 specimen ; Barrigada, June 12, 1 specimen . Type in collection of Hawaiian Sugar Planters' Association, paratype in Museum of Comparative Zoology (no. 23829).