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iridescent, with the apex a little ochreous ; legs pale-ochreous, with dusky 

 spines. 



Also found within the metropolitan district, about Hertford, in 

 June. 



Sp. 38. bipartitus. Ochraceus, alts anticis pallidioribus, margine interno et 

 postico vagi' brunneo irroratis, disco lined longitudinali b7-unnea. (Long. corp. 

 4^— 3lin.; Exp. Alar. 10—11 lin.) 



Lim. interruptus. Steph. Catal. 323. No. 3717.— Lim. bipartitus. Phil. Mag. 

 (^Curtis) V. \v.p. 124. 



Ochreous : anterior wings paler, with the costa immaculate, the inner margin 

 darker, thickly and irregularly freckled with brown, as is a triangular blotch 

 on the hinder margin ; this space is bounded on the disc with a longitudinal 

 brown line, partially interrupted towards the apex ; posterior wings whitish, 

 hyaline, with a yellowish tinge towards the ajiex ; legs ochreous, with dusky 

 spines. 



Not uncommon, in August and September, at Coombe wood, and 

 in other places within the metropolitan district ; taken also in the 

 New Forest and near Dover. 



Sp. 39. vittatus. Subtestaceus, alts anticis ochraceo Jlavis, vitta longitudinali 

 interrupta brunned. (Long. corp. 3| lin. ; Exp. Alar. 9 lin.) 



Phr. vittatus. Fabricius, E. S., Svpp. 201. — Lim. vittatus. Steph. Catal.323. 

 No. 3718. 



Pale testaceous-ochre : thorax and abdomen rather darker, the latter with a 

 palish lateral streak ; anterior wings with an interrupted longitudinal brown 

 line, expanded at the apex, the inner and posterior apical margins of the 

 wing darker than the costa ; posterior wings yellowish, hyaline, slightly 

 darkest at the apex ; legs pale ochreous, with black spines. 



Apparently scarce : taken, in September, near liOndon. 



Sp. 40. nigrivittatus. Ochraceus, antennis pedibitsque pallidioribus, alis anticis 

 ochraceo-Jlavis, lined abbreviald lonyitudinali media nigra, margine pnstico 

 brunneo irrorato, stigmate brunneo. (Long. corp. 4§ lin.; Exp. Alar. 11 lin.) 



Lim. lineola. Steph. Catal. 323. No. 3719.— Phr. elegans. Pictet, p. 137. 

 pi. x.f. 3. 



Ochreous : head with a blackish dash between the antennje, which are pale 

 ochreous ; abdomen rather dusky above ; anterior wings ochreous-yellow, 

 shining, and rather narrow, with the nervures light ; on the hinder margin is a 

 triangular blotch, formed of brown freckles, and on the disc, rather beyond 

 the middle, is a short longitudinal black streak, placed over the 5th longi- 

 tudinal nervure; stigma brown; posterior wings transparent, whitish, 

 faintly tinted with ochreous at the apex ; legs ochreous, with black spines. 



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