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[July, 



H. STIGMA, Steph. (1836). 



pi7ii, Steph. partim sec. collect. 



irroratus, Steph. 



strigosus, Zett. sec. Wallengr., Rostock, Reuter. 



limhatus, Wesmael, Brauer, McLach., Meyer-Diir, &c. 



phaleratus, Hag., partim (1858), nee Schneider. 



Head and thorax wholly pale shining brown. Abdomen fuscescent in the dry 

 insect ; its apical half above densely clothed with golden-grey hairs in the <? . An- 

 tennae distinctly annulated. Legs whitish-yellow, darker at the knees, the terminal 

 tarsal joint blackish. Anterior wings rather long-oval, pale whitish-grey, in which 

 are numerous angulate darker grey markings on the regular and closely placed dark 

 points on the neuration, but these angulate markings are absent on the dorsal and 

 apical margins (below the lower cubitus and beyond the outer gradate nervules), 

 which are broadly pale brownish-grey, without markings : there is almost invariably 

 a fuscous sub-basal point (at the constriction between the cubiti), and often one or 

 two darker points connecting with the inner gradate series, which, and also the 

 outer, are frequently clouded with smoky-fuscous (but the coloration is remarkably 

 uniform as a rule, the markings more evident in the ? ) ; pterostigmatic region (as 

 also in the posterior wings) very long, subopaque, and often very distinctly reddish. 

 Posterior wings without spots, the dorsal and apical margins as in the anterior, but 

 paler. Expanse, 15 — 17 mm. (rarely more or less). 



In the <J the appendages are yellowish, more or lees dusky, the basal portion 



broad, deeply fur- 

 cate, the lower 

 branch shorter 

 and thicker than 

 the upper, both 

 branches of about 

 the same curva- 

 ture if viewed la- 

 terally, but both 

 are interlocked 

 with the opposing 



branches, and these, if viewed in front, are not on the same plane (but alteration in 

 position occurs in drying) ; the upper branch is very acute, and the up- and in-turned 

 apex has an appearance as of a false articulation immediately before the tip. 



Very common in Britain. It commences to appear in the first 

 fine days of early spring, and there is probably a succession of broods. 

 Wide-spread in Europe (I have it from Portugal and Corsica), but 

 perhaps localized, for I do not appear to have met with it personally 

 during my excursions in the Vosges and Schwarzwald. 



H. PINT, Steph. partim (1836), McLach., Wallengr., Rostock, Reuter. 

 phaleratus, Hag. (1858), partim. 



