NEUROPTERA. 



Synopsis of the British Phryganid^. 

 By Dr. Hagen. 



[Continued from the Annual for 1860, p. 85.] 



Sub-Family 7. Hydropsychides. 

 I. Spurs 3, 4, 4. 



A. Intermediate legs of the females not 



DILATED. 



Genus Plectrocnemia, Stephens. 

 Antenna stout, as long as or but little shorter than the 

 wings; ocelli wanting; maxillary palpi long, the two basal 

 joints very short, the two following long, the last thong- 

 shaped, as long as the others united; head very strongly 

 pubescent; thorax with two knob-like protuberances; legs 

 long, stout; spurs 3, 4, 4; intermediate legs of the females 

 not dilated ; wings large, narrow, with parabolic apex ; be- 

 fore the apex of wings two, behind these three forks; dis- 

 coidal cell closed ; transverse veins rather numerous (about 

 7), slenderer than the longitudinal veins. Males: app. sup. 

 two ovate, short, somewhat acuminate lobes; app. inf. close 

 together, two long, slender, upwardly bent and much at- 

 tenuated lobes ; app. intermed. two broad, short lobes, with 

 narrow bases; penis-cover narrow, boat-shaped, situate be- 

 1861. B 



