4 NEUROPTERA. 



89. P. MULTiGUTTATUS, Curt. B. E. pi. 544 ; Steph. 111. 



178, 8. 



Dark brown ; antennae yellow, annulated with brown ; 

 palpi brownish ; apical joint yellow ; head and thorax 

 dark brown, with a dense yellow pubescence; legs 

 brownish-yellow, posterior legs brown externally ; ab- 

 domen fawn-coloured or black-brown ; anterior wings 

 dark brown, thickly maculated with golden yellow j 

 thyridium and posterior ti'ansverse veins whitish, the 

 spots at the apical margin regularly alternate ; anterior 

 and posterior margins with larger brown spots ; pos- 

 terior wings black-grey, edges blackish. 



Male. App. intermed. long, hook-shaped, crossing each 

 other; app. sup. long, leaf-like. 



Length 5 lin. ; exp. 8 lin. 



Hab. London, end of July ; Scotland, July, August ; 

 not rare. 



90. P. PYRRHOCERAs, Steph. 111. 177, 3. 



Brownish; antennae yellow, broadly annulated with 

 brown ; palpi dark brown ; head and thorax brown, 

 with a dense yellow pubescence ; legs fawn-coloured, 

 darker externally; abdomen brown, beneath fawn- 

 coloured; anterior wings pale brown, very thickly 

 but not very conspicuously spotted ; posterior wings 

 grey, with grey edges. 



Male. App. intermed. approximate, hook-shaped, bent 

 under; app. sup. leaf-like, long, slightly narrowed 

 towards the apex. 



Length 4 lin. ; exp. 7 lin. 



Hab. London, in June; not common. 



91. P. TRiMACULATUS, Curt. Phil. M. 213; B. E. pi. 544; 



Steph. 111.178, 6 ; P. suhpunctatus, Steph. 111. 176, 1. 



