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rior wings ample, transparent, slightly iridescent, pale fuscous, with the 

 apex darker ; legs dull ochreous, with fuscous spines. 



Found, occasionally, at Hertford, in June. 



Sp. 31. sparsus. Fuscus, infra ochraceus, alls anticis Jusco-ochraceis , atomis 

 pallidioribus, maculdque postice ochracea, pedibus ochraceis, tihiis anticis fusco 

 annulatis. (Long. corp. 4 — 5§ lin. ; Exp. Alar. 11 — 13 lin.) 



Lim. nubilus. Steph. Catal. 322. No. 3711. — Lim. sparsus. Phil. Mag. 

 {Curtis) V. iv. p. 123. 



Fuscous, ochreous beneath : antennae brown, rather broadly annulated with 

 ochreous ; anterior wings silky, pale brown, thickly freckled with ochreous, 

 with a larger spot of the same hue towards the apex of the inner margin ; 

 posterior wings fuscescent, slightly iridescent, with the apex brown ; legs 

 pale ochreous, anterior tibiae annulated with fuscous. 



A common species, frequenting the marshy districts in the vicinity 

 of London ; taken at Battersea, Coombe wood, Ripley, Hertford, 

 &c. ; the New Forest, Devonshire, Dorset, Wilts, Suffolk, &c. and 

 the north of England. 



Sp. 32. irroratus. Ochraceus, antennis hrunneo annulatis, alis anticis pallide 

 ochraceis, atomis numerosissimis pallidioribus, abdominis dorso fusco, pedibus 

 ochraceis spinisfuscis. (Long. corp. 4^ lin. ; Exp. Alar. 11 lin.) 



Lira, irroratus. Steph. Catal. 322. No. 3712. 



Ochreous: antennae faintly annulated with brown; anterior wings pale 

 yellowish-ochre, freckled throughout with very numerous paler dots, stigma 

 obsolete; posterior wings iridescent, yellowish, with the apex dusky; 

 abdomen fuscous above ; legs pale ochreous, with fuscous spines. 



Apparently rare : taken, near London, in June. 



Sp. 33. flavescens. Ochraceus, alls anticis pallide Jlavescente-ochraceis, imma- 

 culatis, posticis pallididissimi flavescentibus. (Long. corp. 6 lin. ; Exp. Alar. 

 14 lin.) 



Lim. flavescens. Steph. Catal. 322. JVo. 3713. 



Pale ochraceous: antennae faintly annulated with whitish; anterior wings 

 wholly of a plain yellowish-ochre, very clear and entirely immaculate ; 

 nervures pale ochreous ; posterior wings very pale yellowish, with the apex 

 darker ; legs pale ochreous, with dusky spines. 



Also taken, near London, in June, at Ripley, but apparently not 

 common. 



Sp. 34. ochraceus. Supra fuscus, infra ochraceus, alis anticis pallide fusco- 

 Jlavidis, flavo irroratis, stigmato obscuro, (Long. corp. 4 — 4^ lin. ; Exp. 

 Alar. 101—11 lin.) 



