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scent, black, the base loam colour ( ? ) ; thorax brown, 

 with the margins loam colour ; abdomen black, with 

 transverse yellow bands ; legs loam colour, apex of 

 tibiae and tarsi black-brown 5 wings hyaline ; veins 

 brown, at the base loam colour; marginal vein brown, 

 interrupted with white below the pterostigma; ptero- 

 stigma obtusely triangular, white-yellow, at the apex 

 a large brown spot, at the base an indistinct brown, 

 transverse band, less evident or wanting in the male; 

 towards the apex thr&e brown spots. 



Length 3—4 lin. ; exp. 5 — 7 hn. 



Hab. Common near London, Suffolk. 



16. Ps. NEBULOSA, Steph. 111. 119, 9 ( ? ) ; Ps. similis, 

 Steph. 111. 120, 10 ( <^ ) ; Ps. variegatus, Curt. ; Ps, 

 qffinis, Rbr. ; Ps. infuscatus, Rbr. 



Loam colour ; forehead striped with brown ; crown 

 without spots; antennae (^) rather longer than the 

 wings, blackish, pubescent, basal joints yellowish ( $ ), 

 not pubescent, the three basal joints yellowish ; palpi 

 brown ; thorax pitchy brown, the margins loam 

 colour ; legs loam colour, tibiae and tarsi brown ; 

 abdomen brown-black, loam colour or yellow at the 

 sides and beneath ; wings grey-brown, with a coppery 

 tinge, unicolorous ( ^ ) or somewhat paler, with con- 

 fluent brown spots, which towards the apex follow the 

 veins like rays, under the pterostigma a paler trans- 

 verse band ( ? ) ; veins brown ; pterostigma triangular, 

 elongate, nearly rectangular, brown ; posterior wings 

 paler, grey. 



Length 3—4 lin. ; exp. 4J— 6 lin. 



Mab. Common near London, in June and July, 

 Suffolk. 



