66 NEUROPTERA. 



disposed in a spiral turned towards the left. They live in 

 stagnant or slowly flowing deep water, 

 t The posterior branch of the ramus thyrrfer of the anterior 

 wings simple in the male, furcate in the female. 



1. Phryganea grandis, L. ; Steph. 111. 205, 1 ; Curtis, 



B. E. 592, 1 ; Walk. Cat. 4, 1 ; Hagen, Linnaaa, 

 V. 366 ; P. atomaria, Steph. 111. 206, 3, $ . 



Antennae clay-coloured, annulated with brown ; thorax 

 and abdomen brownish yellow ; legs testaceous, 

 apices of the tarsal joints and the anterior thighs 

 brown ; anterior wings ashy grey, mingled with 

 brown, with two white dots, and in the female with 

 a broad, bidentate, black, longitudinal band; pos- 

 terior wings grey, bordered with black along the veins 

 at the apex and hinder margin. App. anal. sup. $ 

 cylindrical, lons^ with the thickened tips bent inwards 

 and downwards (Brauer, Neur. Austr. fig. 37; 

 Curtis's B. E., 592, a). 



Hab., May to July, Albury in Surrey, Ripley, Hert- 

 ford, New Forest, Devonshire ; local, sometimes very 

 abundant. 



Length, with closed wings, 10 lin. ; exp. 20 lin. 



2. P. striata, L. ; Hagen, Linnsea, v. 366 ; P. grandis, 



De Geer, Scopoli ; P. fulvipes, Burm. ; P. Beck- 

 withii, Steph. 111. 206, 2 5 Curtis, B. E. 592, 2. 

 Antennae brown, annulated with black; thorax and 

 abdomen dark piceous ; legs brown, the base of the 

 tarsal joints and the posterior legs testaceous ; anterior 

 wings ashy-grey, but little mingled with brown, with 

 two white dots, and in the female with a short, in- 

 terrupted, black, longitudinal line ; posterior wings 



