122 MANDIBUI,ATA XKUROPT KRA. 



Ochreous-red : tips of palpi fuscescent ; forehead with a fuscous streak, and a 

 paler cloud on the crown ; eyes fuscous ; thorax with three fuscous spots 

 in front, and two on the metathorax ; abdomen immaculate ; legs pale, tips 

 of tarsi black; wings limpid, faintly tinged with yellowish; nervures 

 slightly fuscescent; stigma hyaline; antennae fuscous, the basal joint 

 luteous. 

 Also taken neai' London, and at Ripley and Hertford, in June 



and July. 



Sp. 18. vittatus. Atro-fuscus, ahdomine piceo, pedibus anteiinarumque basi 

 pallidis, alis anticisvittahitafusca, nervis saturatioribus. (Long. corp. 1 — 1| 

 lin. ; Exp. Alar. 3 — 3§ lin.) 



Ps. vittatus. Kirby MSS.—Steph. Catal. 313. No. 3503. 



Deep shining fuscous: abdomen pitchy; legs pale yellowish; tarsi fuscescent 

 above ; wings fuscescent-hyaline, anterior with a broad longitudinal darker 

 fuscous streak from the base to the apex, branching off to the stigma, 

 which is hyaline ; nervures dark fuscous, paler towards the margin ; 

 posterior wings with the costa pale ; antennae fuscous, with the base within 

 pale or yellowish. 



Immature specimens have the head and thorax, as well as the abdomen, pitchy, 

 of red, and the vitta on the wings somewhat flavescent-brown, with a 

 golden tinge- 

 Also found at Ripley and Hertford, in the summer, and at Dover, 



8cc. abundantly. 



Sp. 19. ochropterus. PaUide ochraceus, abdomine rufo, cnpite thoracequefusco 

 punctatis, pedibus JIavis, alis subochraceis, vents fuscescentibus. (Long, 

 corp. |— 1 lin. ; Exp. Alar. 2§— Sg lin.) 



Ps. ochropterus. Kirby MSS.—Steph. Cutal. 313. No. 3504. 



Pale ochreous : head and thorax spotted with fuscous ; abdomen pale red ; 

 legs pale ochreous yellow; wings hyaline, slightly tinged with ochreous, 

 the nervures, especially the inner one of the anterior wings, fuscous; 

 antennae pale, the tip fuscescent. 

 Taken in July at Ripley, and in Suffolk. 



Sp.20. tlavidum. Capite thoracecjue ochraceo-rujis, oculis atris, ahdomine jlavo, 

 pedibus pallidis, alis hyalinis, subfuscescentibus nervis saturatioribus. ( Long, 

 corp. I lin. ; Exp. Alar. 2^ — 3 lin.) 



Ps. flavidum. Kirby MSS.—Steph. Catal. 313. No. 350.5. 



Head and thorax above pale ochreous-red, immaculate, beneath yellow ; eyes 

 black ; abdomen sulphur-yellow ; legs pale ; wings hyaline, slightly fus- 

 cescent, with the nervures darker ; antennae pale, a little fuscescent at the 

 apex above. 

 Also taken near I^pndon, and in SuffJ^lk. 



