222 MANDIBULATA. TRICHOl'TERA. 



Ochreous-brown : antennae brown, with slender ochreous rings ; anterior 

 wings narrow, pale fuscous, thickly, irregularly, and prettily freckled 

 throughout with whitish dots and blotches ; stigma indistinct, immaculate ; 

 posterior wings delicate, hyaline, iridescent, pale fuscous, with the tips 

 darker ; abdomen with the edges of the segments pale ; legs pale ochreous- 

 brown, with dusky spines. 



Found, near Hertford, in June and July. 



Sp. 28. Vinculum. Ochraceo-fuscus, alts anticisfuscis, maculis quatuor pallidis, 

 stigmatefusco, pallide ir?-orato. (Long. corp. 31 Hn. ; Exp. Alar. 9| — 10 lin.) 



Lim. 4-maculatus. Steph. Caial. 322. JVo. 37 08. — Lim. Vinculum. Phil. Mag. 

 (Curtis) V. iv.p. 124. 



Ochreous-brown : " superior (anterior) wings deep fuscous, the stigma a little 

 darker, with numerous pale dots, and a larger one before the stigma, two 

 opposite on the inferior (inner) margin and another upon the transverse 

 nervures ; apex of inferior (posterior) wings fuscous." — Curtis, I. c. 



Taken near London, and in the New Forest, in July and August. 



Sp. 29. tenebricus. Fuscus, alis anticis saturate fuscis plus minus ochraceo 

 irr oralis maculisque duabus pallidis, stigmate piceo. (Long. corp. 4 — 5^ lin. ; 

 Exp. Alar. 12— 14 lin.) 



Lim. confluens. Steph. Catal. 322. JVo. 3709. — Lim. tenebricus. Phil. Mag. 

 {Curtis) V. iv. p. 123. 



Fuscous : thorax with a pale streak on each side ; abdomen with the edges of 

 the segments pale; anterior wings very dark fuscous, more or less freckled 

 and dotted with ochreous, especially at the base of the costa and on the 

 extreme hinder margin, inner margin very dark, in some examples almost 

 black at the base, with a pale ochreous spot towards the apex, opposite to 

 the stigma, which is fuscous and immaculate, and edged anteriorly with 

 ochreous ; posterior wings fuscescent, with the tip darker : antennae pitchy- 

 brown, with ochreous annulations; legs ochreous, with blackish spines. 



Not uncommon, in the neighbourhood of London, during the 

 summer ; also found in the New Forest, Devonshire, the north of 

 England, &c. 



Sp. 30. fuscatus. Ochraceo-fuscus, alis anticis pallide fuscis, marginihus inte- 

 rioribus et posticis saturatioribus, stigmate fusco-piceo, pallide irrorato. 

 (Long. corp. 4i lin. ; Exp. Alar. 12 lin.) 



Lim. fuscatus. Steph. Catal. 322. No. 3710. 



Ochreous-brown : antennae faintly annulated with ochreous ; anterior wings 

 pale fuscous, with the inner and posterior margins darker, the stigma 

 pitchy-brown, with a few pale dots, the wings immaculate, except an 

 indistinct palish spot on the inner margin towards the hinder angle; poste- 



