Drepanacra binocula (Notched brown lacewing)

Coloration. Buff to mid brown. Eyes black. Face pale; genae usually darkened; inter-antennal area darkened; vertex with pale midline; cranial setae from dark bases; palpi pale; antennae greyish brown, intersegmental areas paler. Pronotum darkened posteriorly and dorsolaterally, midline usually narrowly pale; pteronota darkened except (sometimes) pale midline; thoracic setae dark, from dark bases. Abdomen buff, sometimes with anterior tergites dark. Legs greyish buff: apex of T, whole of t sometimes slightly darkened. Fore-wing variously marked with brown and/or grey, sometimes uniform or with hyaline areas, sometimes with highly contrasted markings (Figs 284-291); longitudinal venation usually with at least a few short dark lengths, gradates variously shaded or pale. Hindwing paler than forewing, sometimes with much of apex (in particular) fumose or pale brown.

Forewing falcate; hindwing very broad centrally, apex narrowed. Venation as in Figs 273, 274: some basal FW costal crossveins usually linked by cross veinlets, rarely all free.

T R New Australian Hemerobiidae (1988)