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16. L. despectus. 



Limncphilus despectus Walk.! Catal. 31, 42. 



Grayish-ferruginous, with pale pile, and longer hair, which is 

 black ; antennas subfuscous, the bases of the articles testaceous ; 

 maxillary palpi fuscous, labial palpi testaceous ; abdomen and feet 

 testaceous ; mesothorax above with a double whitish streak ; ante- 

 rior wings fuscous, freckled with whitish ; thyridium and first sub- 

 apical areole with a whitish spot; costa and disk towards the apex 

 still more whitish; posterior wings whitish. (From the description 

 of Walker.) 



Length to tip of wings 11 millim. Alar expanse 21 millim. 



Hab. Nova Scotia (Redman). 



Allied to L. griseus Linn. 



17. L. nebulosus. 



Limnephilus nebulosus Kirby. Faun. Bor. Amer. 253, 349 ; Walk. Catal. 

 50, 126. 



Black, with white hair ; antenna; (at base) black ; mesothorax 

 testaceous ; superior wings testaceous, spotted*and irrorated with 

 whitish, the costal area immaculate ; posterior wings whitish, with 

 testaceous veins; feet testaceous. (From the description of Kirby.) 



Length of body 15 millim. 



Hab. North America, latitude 65. 



18. L. multifarius. 



Limncphilus multifarius Walk.! Catal. 32,43. Phryganea variegata Barn- 

 ston, Mss. Limnephilus perforatus Walk. Catal. 33, 46. (In part.) 



Black, with pale hair, and longer pile, which is black ; antennae 

 fuscous, annulated with testaceous; feet testaceous; anterior wings 

 fuscous, freckled with whitish ; thyridium and base of the apical 

 areoles spotted with white ; posterior wiugs cinereous. (From the 

 description of Walker.) 



Length to tip of wings 11 millim. Alar expanse 21 millim. 



Hab. St. Martin's Falls, Albany River, Hudson's Bay (Barn- 

 ston) ; L. perforatus Walk, (from St. Martin's Falls), certainly is 

 the same species; a very much mutilated specimen from Arctic 

 America (Mackenzie and Slave Rivers, Richardson) is different, 

 but indeterminable; possibly the true L. nebulosus of Kirby. L. 

 despectus and L. multifarius are very closely allied ; are they dis- 

 tinct? 



