70 NEUROPTERA. 



H. phalcenoides, L. ; Walk. Cat. 6, 2. Black ; posterior 

 tibiae and tarsi yellow ; wings milk-white ; the an- 

 terior with numerous dark steel-blue round spots ; 

 the posterior with a broad border on the outer mar- 

 gin, and some spots on the anterior margin of the 

 same colour. Length 10 lin. ; exp. 20 lin. Hab. 

 Sweden, Prussia, and, according to Turton, England. 



H. atrata, Lepechin ; Altaica, Fischer ; Walk. Cat. 6, 1. 

 Very like the preceding, but the spots of the anterior 

 wings are less round, and connected together, forming 

 broken bands, and the border of the posterior wings 

 is indistinct, essentially only the apices of the veins 

 being bordered with black; tibiae vellow. Length 

 9 lin. ; exp. 17 lin. Hab. Sweden, Russia. 



Genus Agrypnia, Curtis. 



Wings not clotlied with hair ; the anterior narrow, very 

 obliquely truncated at the extremity; palpi short, broad, 

 not hairy; legs without spines; discoidal cell of the anterior 

 wings long, narrow, triangular. 



Colour pale, scarcely spotted. 



The case of the larvae consists of fragments of root-fibres 

 of equal length, arranged close together in a spiral turned to 

 the right. They live in standing waters. 



6. Agrypnia Pagetana, Curt. B. E. 540; Steph. 111. 

 229, 1; Walk. Cat. 11, 1; P. agrota, Burm. ; 

 O. strigosa, Ramb. 

 Dull straw-yellow, the longitudinal veins of the anterior 

 wings brownish towards the margin, and the mem- 

 brane between them sometimes rather dark ; abdomen 



