H£MEKOBlD.«. MEMEROBICS. IVJ 



Collar pale ochreous, with the sides pitchy ; thorax pale bchreous ; ahdomen 

 the same, with a pitchy streak along each side ; legs pale ochreous ; wings 

 abbreviated, hyaline, and iridescent, the costa and nervures brownish, the 

 latter with remote palish dots ; posterior wings rather paler. 



Found at Hertford, in July. 



d. Longitudinal nervures all uniied by two or mote transverse ones, placed 



irregularly. 



Sp. 25. variegatus. Fuscus, alis albo hyalinis, fusco maculatis et subfasciatia 

 nervisque punctalis, antennis ochreo-rufis, pedibus pallidis. (Long. corp. 2 — 

 24 lin.; Exp. Alar. B—6 lin.) 



He. variegatus. Fabricius. — Steph. Catal. 312. No.^ 34.81. 



Deep fuscous : head very glossy in front ; antenna and palpi reddish-ochre ; 

 legs pale ; wings hyaline, white and iridescent, anterior with several large 

 blotches of deep fuscous, especially towards the inner margin and the apex, 

 sometimes disposed in one or two oblique transverse fasciae ; nervurea 

 fuscescent, with large fuscous spots; posterior wings paler and more 

 transparent, with three or four distinct fuscescent clouds on the margin 

 towards the apex. 



A variable and beautiful species : in some examples the abdomen has an 

 ochreous stripe down the back ; others have the wings very slightly spotted 

 in the direction of the nervures ; in some the fuscous clouds are united in 

 distinct transverse fasciae, while in others they are placed irregularly, and 

 are not united. 



Common, in June and July, in woods about London, as at 

 Darenth, Coombe, Birch wood, &c.; also in Devonshire, Dorset- 

 shire, the New Forest, Scotland, &c. 



+Sp. 26. fimbriatus. Piceus, thoracis dorso macuHsqve ochraceis, alls subochraceis, 

 Jimbrid subinterruptdfuscescente. (Long. corp. 2^ lin. ; Exp. Alar. 5 lin.) 



He. fimbriatus. Curtis, v. v. pi. 202.— Steph. Catal. 312. No. 3485. 



Pitchy : thorax with a dorsal line and a spot on each side ochreous, meta- 

 thorax varied with the same; abdomen somewhat ferruginous at the base; 

 legs dull ochre ; iemora, especially the posterior, pitchy ; base of the hinder 

 tibiae and tips of all the tarsi the same ; wings somewhat ochreous, iridescent, 

 bordered with fuscous ; anterior spotted with fuscous, and the nervure* 

 dotted with brown ; posterior with a short fuscous streak on the costal- 

 edge. 



" Daddingston Loch, July." — Curtis^ I. c. 



B. Anterior wings with the costal nervures furcate, with two discoidal nervures'- 



only arising from the inner longitudinal rib. 

 Sp. 2T. elegans. Atro-piceus, nitidus, abdomine rufo-piceo, pedihus pallidis, 

 Manbibut.ata, Vol. VI., Jtjxf 30th, 1836'. v 



