SYNOPSIS OF THE BRITISH PHRYGANID^. 83 



I cannot separate the two species with certainty, and have 

 therefore reproduced Stephens' diagnoses. The difference of 

 size makes me think they may be distinct. 



Genus Beraea, Stephens. 



Antennas rather shorter than the wings, stout, the basal 

 joint very strongly clothed with hair, much longer and 

 thicker than the rest, furnished with a sharp tooth internally 

 in the male; maxillary palpi very strongly clothed with 

 hair, the first joint short, the four following long, cylin- 

 drical, of equal length; ocelli wanting; wings similar in 

 form, the posterior rather shorter ; hairy covering long and 

 thick; venation fine and indistinct, more simple in the 

 males than in the females, but the base of the anterior wing 

 has a hairy drum, as in Glossosoma, but much smaller; 

 spurs 2, 2, 4; intermediate feet of the females not dilated; 

 abdomen of the females obtuse at the apex. 



Case? 



The males have on the antepenultimate ventral segment 

 a short, narrow, horny lobe, and upon the penultimate a 

 fringe of hair; app. sup. short, cylindrical; app. infer, long, 

 thin, semicircular, bent inwards; app. intermed. two thin, 

 diverging points ; the last ventral segment is produced in the 

 middle like a tongue ; in the female the last ventral segment 

 turns upwards, so as to form a receptacle for the brood. 



I cannot separate the small, black, densely hairy species 

 with certainty, and have therefore restricted myself to Ste- 

 phens' diagnoses. 



83. Beraea albipes, Steph. 111. 158, 1 (the type is want- 

 ing ; unknown to me). Black ; wings blackish- 

 brown ; the anterior somewhat iridescent, with some 

 white atoms ; legs brown, tarsi white. 

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