PTEROPHORID.-E—CNEMIDOPHORUS. 3=1 3 



raised, and thrown forward in such a manner that it resembles- 

 a letter Y. It flies if disturbed, but only to another part ol 

 the bed of sea-lavender, again to swing by its loug legs and 

 assume the curious rolled up form which renders it so difficult 

 a creature to set out after death. At dusk it flies, much like f. 

 Tipula, over the Statice, hardly ever leaving it. Eestricted to 

 the coast, and almost so to salt marshes and those more- 

 rocky spots which yet are moist enough to allow the food 

 plant to grow. In snch situations abundant in the Isle of 

 Wight and other parts of the Hants coast, Kent, Dorset 

 Essex, Suffolk, and Norfolk, also in a salt marsh at the side 

 of the river Tees in Durham, and it has once been taken near 

 Redcar, Yorkshire. So far as I know it has not been met 

 witli in any other portion of the United Kingdom ; and 

 abroad the only records within my knowledge are in Holland 

 and France. 



Genus 2. CNEMIDOPHORUS. 



Antennas simple; palpi short, pointed, thickened in the 

 middle ; fore wings cleft less than one-third their length, 

 the segments broad and the hinder hatchet-shaped, the anal 

 angle sharp ; hind wings cleft into three wide divisions, the 

 third showing a distinct anal angle ; the fore wings laid 

 flatly over the hind in repose ; legs not excessively long. 



We have only one sjoecies. 



]. C. rliododactylus, Fah. — Expanse f to 1 inch. Fort 

 wings rich tawny with white stripes and cilia ; hind wings 

 paler red-brown, the third division white, with a chestnut 

 triangle. 



Antennas of the male short, simple, pale brown, regularly 

 barred at the back with white ; palpi minnte, light brown : 

 head and thorax yellow-brown, the shoulder-lappets red- 

 brown ; abdomen red-brown, shaded with white at the base ; 

 legs white, shaded with larsre red-brown bands and tuftf. 



