SYNOPSIS OF THE BRITISH PHRYGANID^. 3 



palpi shorter; the intermediate legs of the females strongly 

 dilated. 



Case fixed. 



In habit and colouring the species pertaining to this genus 

 are so peculiar that it is impossible to mistake them. I am 

 constrained, until fresh reliable characters are adduced, to 

 unite the genus Cyrrms, Steph., with Polycentropus, since I 

 have not succeeded in recognizing the differences of neura- 

 tion upon which Stephens has founded the genus Cyrnus. 

 Of the four described species C. pulcheUus is a veritable 

 Polycentropvs, and unipunctatus only an abraded specimen 

 of the same species. C. urbamis belongs to the genus Anti- 

 ryra (with 2, 4, 4 spurs) ; the type of the fourth species, 

 C. unicolor, apparently likewise an Anticyra, is no longer 

 to be found, 



88. P. IRRORATUS, Curt. B. E. pi. 544; Steph. 111. 178,7; 

 H.Jiavomaculata, Pict. 



Brown ; antennae annulated with yellow ; palpi and legs 

 fawn-coloured ; head and thorax black-brown, with a 

 thick long golden yellow pubescence ; abdomen black- 

 brown, fawn-coloured beneath ; anterior wings pale 

 brown, thickly spotted with golden yellow ; the apex 

 and posterior margin with a regular row of yellow 

 spots at the anterior margin, being more widely sepa- 

 rated, several larger dark patches are apparent ; pos- 

 terior wings brown-grey, with the edges brown. 



Male. App. intermed. claw-shaped, divergent, promi- 

 nent ; app. sup. and inf. flat, quadrate. 



Hah. London, in June; more frequently in the north 

 of England ; Scotland ; Isle of Arran at the end of 

 August; Cartland Craigs in September. 

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