16 Mr. R. M‘Lachlan’s Monograph of the 
head witha straight median blackish line, and with two lateral black 
lines uniting anteriorly ; pronotum bordered with black anteriorly 
and posteriorly ; mesonotum and metanotum greenish, with paler 
markings ; cox with a blackish line. 
This prettily marked species is common at the end of summer 
and inthe autumn. It frequents the neighbourhood of ponds, 
small lakes and marshes, and is frequently found at the saccha- 
rine mixture used by Lepidopterists to attract Noctue, and not 
infrequently mistaken for a moth by the uninitiated. 
4. Phryganea obsoleta, Hagen. (PI. IX. fig. 3, app.) 
Phryganea obsoleta, Hag. (*) Stett. Zeit. 1858, p. 114. 
Antennz dark fuscous, with testaceous annulations. Head 
dark blackish-fuscous, sparingly clothed with grey hairs. Palpi 
fuscous. Prothorax thickly clothed with greyish hairs. Meso- 
thorax dark reddish or blackish-fuscous. Anterior wings pale 
grey, with indistinct darker cloudings and reticulations ; apical 
margin spotted with fuscous at the terminations of the apical veins ; 
three small white spots, one at the base of the third apical cell, 
another rather larger about the middle of the sixth apical cell, 
and a third in the middle of the wing a little below the thyridium 
(these markings are generally indistinct) ; neuration fuscous, 
Posterior wings very pale grey, subhyaline ; neuration pale testa- 
ceous, becoming fuscous towards the apex ; the extreme apical 
edge narrowly fuscous. Legs dark testaceous, with a few black 
spines; anterior and intermediate tibiae and tarsi with dark fus- 
cous rings; posterior tibize and tarsi slightly fuscous at the knees 
and apices. Abdomen dark blackish-fuscous. In the male the 
upper margin of the last abdominal segment is furnished with a 
fringe of long stiff yellow hairs ; the app. sup. appear to be want- 
ing; app. inf. long, curved upwards, subcylindrical, the basal 
portion externally fringed with long yellow hairs, the extreme 
apex dilated and truncated, and furnished beneath with a long 
thin slightly bent spine, which is directed downwards. 
Expanse of fore-wings 13—15 lin. 
A single male example of this species was taken on Skiddaw 
in July, 1854, by Mr. T. Chapman of Glasgow; this is now in 
my collection. I have since received a second example from Mr. 
Bond, who obtained it from the late Mr. Heysham’s collection ; 
it was probably taken in the North of England. 
On the occasion of Dr. Hagen’s last visit to this country he saw 
this insect, and, without close examination, named it Agrypnia 
picta of Kolenati, and I brought it forward under this name, and 
