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[June, 



animlated, the ter- 

 iiiinal joint darker ; 

 coxae, troelianter8,aiid 

 occasionally the pos- 

 terior femora exter- 

 nally, brownish. An- 

 terior wings long-oval, 

 the apex sub-acute, 

 costal area narrow ; , 

 pale brownish - grey 

 (varying to darker), 

 with an irrorated ap- 

 pearance due to the 

 longitudinal veins 



being closely set with black points ; the black sub-basal point very conspicuous, and 

 there are distinct points at the origins of the sectors of the radius ; the general 

 colour is very uniform, but the dorsal and costal edges are darker, interrupted by 

 pale spaces, and the gradate nervules have darker cloudings forming ill-defined 

 fasciae, these gradate series more oblique tlian in the preceding species, the lowest 

 nervule in the inner series continuous with the one above it, or placed more towards 

 the base (very rarely more towards the apex). Posterior wings uniformly pale 



greyish, the pterostigniatic region sometimes brownish. 



Expanse of wings, 16 — 19 mm. 



Appendages of the <? dingy yellowish or brownish, very broad, the apex furcate 



with a broad deep excision between the branches, which are slightly divergent : the 



upper branch stronger than the lower, curved upwards and inwards, ending in a 



strong claw-shaped inturned tooth, the apices of the opposed branches crossing if 



viewed from above, the upper edge with a strong fringe of pale hairs ; lower branch 



slightly shorter, straight, finger-shaped, the apex obtuse and slightly dilated. 



Separated from the species here associated with it (aud from most 

 others) by the elongate wings, which are moi*e uniform in coloration. 

 In its brownish general colour it approaches the species that will be 

 considered in No. 3 of these Notes. Varies in intensity, but only 

 slightly in its wing-markings. Allied to humuli in the appendages of 

 the (j", but I have seen only two ^ of humuli (one from Finland, the 

 other from Eastern Siberia) that could be confused with it from 

 general appearance, and in these the form of the wings and the 

 appendages left no doubt. 



At present a little-known species. As European I have seen it 

 only from Scandinavia (Wallengren's type* of orofypus), where it 

 seems to be rare ; Col de Mende, Central Pyrenees {Eaton, June 2J<th) ; 

 and from the British Isles. England (near Huddersfield, Beaumont, 

 prior to 1864 ; Dunkery Hill, Exmoor, 1300 ft., September 20th, 1890, 



* Wallengren's description of the appendages was probably drawn up from this type, in 

 which the apical portion of the upper branch is accldentallj' bent under. 



