SYNOPSIS OF THE BRITISH PHRYGANID.E. O/ 



Ochreous ; antennas reddish-yellow, with paler rings ; 

 abdomen brownish-grey ; head and thorax chestnut 

 brown ; anterior wings yellowish-brown, with a thin 

 covering of hair, usually darker along the apical and 

 hinder margins; pterostigma not marked, or light 

 ash colour ; a small spot upon the thyridium and a 

 similar one opposite to it on the hinder margin, white 

 and translucent ; posterior wings hyaline, light grey, 

 with the apex brownish. App. sup. $ large, spoon- 

 shaped, projecting beyond the extremity of the ab- 

 domen. 



Sometimes the brown coloration of the apical and pos- 

 terior margins of the wing breaks up into scattered 

 brown points. , 



Length 5 lin. ; exp. 9 lin. 



Hab. London and Ripley, in June : not common. 



Subgenus Desmotaulius, Kolenati. 



The species belonging here are very nearly allied to the 

 preceding, and are distinguished essentially only by the 

 more parabolic form of the apex of the anterior wings, and 

 by a longer and denser clothing of hair upon them, espe- 

 cially on the veins near the posterior margin. Coloration of 

 the anterior wings brown, spotted with yellow, or the reverse. 



Case as in Goniotaullus. 



25. L. hirsutus, Pict. ; L. irroratus, Steph. 111. 223, 32. 

 Brownish red ; antennas annulated with yellow ; abdo- 

 men beneath and legs testaceous ; anterior wings 

 yellowish-grey, closely sprinkled with small brown 

 points; posterior margin and a streak before it 

 darker; posterior wings hyaline, greyish, with the 



