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ferruginous above : eyes dark-brown, with a moveable black 

 pupil : moutb pale : neck light-green, with a brown, transverse, 

 hirsute collar on the middle : thorax dark ferruginous, hairy, 

 blackish each side : feet pale : superior wings dull ferruginous, 

 with numerous opake, transverse, abbreviated, black lines; a 

 small black point at the inner basal angle,'and a small transverse, 

 abbreviated dusky line on the inner margin a little beyond the 

 middle ; inferior wings light honey-yellow, a blackish, dilated, 

 angulated, semifasciate line near the tip, and a black, anterior 

 spot near the inner margin : pectus pale-brownish. 



Ohs. This species frequently occurs in various parts of the 

 United States. It is an inhabitant of Pennsylvania and New 

 Jersey, and I also found specimens near the falls of the Ohio 

 river; and another was sent to me by Dr. T. W. Harris, of 

 Massachusetts. A variety in my cabinet, is altogether destitute 

 of the semifascia on the inferior wings. 



The two upper figures. 



Phryganea INTERRUPTA. — Spectfic cJiaracter. Grayish; su- 

 perior wings with a longitudinal black line, and a smaller one 

 near the tip. 



Desc. Body with grayish hair : eyes fuscous ; palpi and an- 

 tennae black ; superior wings gray, disk tinged with dusky, a 

 black line extending from the base to near the middle of the 

 terminal edge, and slightly interrupted in its middle; nearer 

 the costal margin, and beyond the middle, is an abbreviated black 

 line : inner margin hoary, immaculate ; inferior wings duU-ochre- 

 ous, with a broad blackish tip : tibias dusky : tarsi dusky, the 

 joints pale at their bases. 



Obs. For this pretty species, I am indebted to my brother, who 

 caught two specimens at Pleasant Mills, New Jersey. 



The right middle figure of the plate. 



CYCHRUS. Plate XLV. 



Generic character. Head narrower than the thorax ; external 

 maxillary and labial palpi dilated, compressed, securiform ; lab- 

 rum elongated, very profoundly emarginate; labium very large, 

 profoundly emarginate, not wider at base than at tip ; mandibles 

 narrow, elongated, bidentate near the tip ; thorax cordate, slightly, 

 or not at all elevated each side, and not extended behind ; abdo- 



