RHYACOPHILID.E. ANTICYRA. 159^ 



N. G. (552). Marshamella. Steph. Catal. 317. No. 3587.— Be. Marshamella. 

 Steph. Nomen. 2d edit. col. 119. — Thya Maurus. Phil. Mag. (^Curtis) v. iv. 

 pi. 216. — Rhy. nigrocincta. Pictet, p. 197. pi. xvi. f. 23 ? 



Deep black : wings fuscous-black, with a dull lutescent tint ; anterior rather 

 narrow ; cilia fuscous ; legs fuscous, with the knees and tarsi dull ochreous. 



From Marsham's cabinet. 



Genus VII.— ANTICYRA, Curtis. 



Antennae stoutish, rather longer than the body, but shorter than the wings, the 

 apex slender, basal joint small : maxillary palpi stout, nearly glabrous, 

 depending, longish : head very hairy in front, small : eyes not prominent : 

 wings long, nervures indistinct, anterior very narrow, obtusely rounded on 

 the hinder margin, moderately pubescent, and fringed with shortish hairs ; 

 abdomen short, acute ; of the male with two horny lobes at the apex : legs 

 especially the two hinder pair, rather long and slender : anterior tibia: with 

 a pair of short spurs at the apex, two posterior pair each with two long 

 spurs at the tip, intermediate pair with two towards the base, and hinder 

 pair with two below the middle : intermediate tibiae and tarsi dilated in the 

 females. 



Unlike the insects of the foregoing genus, these are distinguished 

 by having the wings, the anterior especially, very long and narrow, 

 but with indistinct nervures ; they are also very pilose, but the palpi 

 and basal joint of the antennae are but very slightly hairy, and the 

 last is not conspicuously enlarged, as in Beraea ; the legs are long, 

 the two hinder pair armed with long spurs, and the intermediate 

 tibiae and tarsi are dilated in the females. 



Sp. 1. phaeopa. Ochracea, capite thoraceque supra fuscis, alis aniicis griseo- 

 fuscescentibus, posticis iridescentibus, antennis brunneis ochraceo cinctis, tibiis 

 tarsisque fuscescentibus. (Long. corp. 21 lin. ; Exp. Alar. 5§ lin.) 



Ti. phaeopa. Steph. Catal. 316. No. 3575 — Rhi. tomentosa. Pictet, p. 189. 



pi. xvi./. 9} 

 Pale ochreous: head and thorax above fuscous; antennae brown, with 



ochreous rings ; anterior wings dull pale fuscous, with shortish cilia ; 



posterior pair paler, more transparent, slightly iridescent ; legs long ; coxae, 



trochanters, and femora pale ochreous ; tibiae and tarsi pale fuscous. 



Taken in June, at Ripley. 



Sp. 2. gracilipes. Pallida fusca, antennis pallidis nigro annulatis, alis aniicis 

 nitide ochraceis, pedibus fulvescentibus. (Long. corp. 2\ lin. ; Exp. Alar. 

 5— 5| lin.) 



