118 MANDIBULATA. NKUROFTERA. 



Black : antennae very pilose; anterior wings spotted and clouded with dusky ; 

 nervures fuscous, with a dot of that colour at the apex of each on the hinder 

 margin ; posterior immaculate ; legs pale. 



Apparently not very common ; taken near London, and in Suffolk. 



Sp. 2. picicornis. Niger, alls anticis albofuscogue variis, anfennis piceis. (Long, 

 corp. 1 lin. ; Exp. Alar. Sg— 4 lin.) 



Ps. picicornis. Fabricius. — Steph. Catal. 312. No. 3490. 



Black : abdomen pitchy; antennae hairy and pitchy ; anterior wings variegated 

 with fuscous and white ; posterior hyaline, immaculate ; legs pale. Female 

 with the antennae simple. 



Common in the vicinity of London, in June, on trunks of trees, 

 &c. 



•• Antennse scarcely pilose, or naked. 

 Sp. 3. fasciatus. Capite thoraceque flavis, lituris fuscis, abdomine nigro, alts 

 anticis hyalinis,fasciis 3-bus atomisque numerosis nigris. (Long. corp. 1 — 1^ 

 lin.; Exp. Alar 4— 4^ lin.) 



Ps. fasciatus. Fabricius — Steph. Catal. 312. No. 3491. 



Antennae black, slightly pilose ; head and thorax yellow, with fuscous mark- 

 ings ; abdohien black ; wings hyaline, anterior with three black stripes, the 

 1st before the middle, the 2nd behind, and the hinder one on the margin, 

 and numerous minute fuscous dots, with a larger one on the inner edge 

 towards the base ; posterior immaculate. 



Also common in the neighbourhood of London, in woods, &c. 

 during the summer, and in Suffolk. 



Sp. 4. variegatus. Niger, fronte, thorace supra, abdomineque ochraceis, alts 

 anticis nigricantibus atomis albis. ^^Long. corp. 1 lin. ; Exp. Alar. 3^ — 4j 

 lin.) 



Ps. variegatus. Lair eille.'— Steph. Catal. 415. No. 3492. 



Black : forehead, upper part of the thorax, and the abdomen pale ochreous- 

 yellow ; anterior wings blackish, with numerous minute white dots. 



Found, less abundantly than the last, within the metropolitan 

 district, in June : taken also in Suffolk. 



Sp. 5. atomarius. Piceus, capite Jlavo, oculis nigris, pedibus pallidis, alis anticis 

 fuscis atomis albis, stigmate semijlavo. (Long. corp. H lin.; Exp. Alar. 

 4 lin.) 



Ps. atomarius. Sleph. Catal. 312. No. 3493. 



Pitchy : head yellow ; eyes black ; anterior wings fuscous, with minute white' 



