26 Mr. R. M‘Lachlan’s Monograph of the 
an acute point, pale straw-yellow, with a row of small fuscous 
spots along the dorsal margin, and sometimes, but rarely, with 
greyish irrorations; veins scarcely darker, but regularly and 
closely pointed with minute black spots, from each of which 
springs a hair. Posterior wings subhyaline, sometimes slightly 
yellowish at the apex, a long black streak along the course of 
the fourth apical sector. Legs pale testaceous, spines concolo- 
rous. Abdomen ochreous. In the male the upper margin of the 
last abdominal segment is obtusely rounded; app. sup. broad, 
with a rounded notch dividing them into unequal parts, the upper 
branch of the fork the broadest, the apices blackish, and fringed 
with long hairs; app. intermed. straight, about as long as the 
app. sup., broad, deep black, the apices very obtuse, almost trun- 
cated; app. inf. small, finger-shaped, pale yellowish. In the 
female there are two broad pointed superior valves, and two 
lateral ones exceeding the superior in length. 
Expanse of fore-wings 19—23 lin. 
Not a common species; frequents marshes and fenny districts, 
appearing in sammer and autumn. 
This and the next were mixed in Stephens’s and Curtis’s Col- 
lections; the shape of the anterior wings will alone readily 
separate them. 
2. Grammotaulius atomarius, Fabricius. (PI. 1X. fig. 9, app.) 
Phryganea atomaria, Fab. Ent. Syst. p. 78, 15 (1793); 
Grammotaulius atomarius, Kol. Gen. et Spec. Trichop. pt. 1, 
p- 39,2; Brauer(*), Neurop. Aust. p. 52, fig. 95, 96, app. ; 
Limnophilus atomarius, Hag. (*) Ent. Ann. 1859, p. 74, 10; 
Limnephilus strigosus, Curt. (*) Phil. Mag. p. 122, 3 (1834) ; 
L. lineola, Steph. (*) Ill. p. 213, 2 (1837); Limnephila 
lineola, Ramb. Hist. Nat. Névrop. p. 474, 1; Phryganea 
irrorata, Zett. Ins. Lapp. col. 1063, 11 (1840). 
Antenne reddish-testaceous, rather darker at the tips. Head 
dull pale reddish. Palpi reddish. Prothorax with dull testaceous 
hairs. Mesothorax reddish in the middle, fuscous at the sides. 
Anterior wings obtusely pointed at the apex which is much di- 
lated, shining brownish-yellow, darker towards the dorsal mar- 
gin, closely sprinkled with small brown spots (costal and sub- 
costal areas excepted), a whitish spot at the thyridium; varies 
much in the number of spots, in some examples they are very 
numerous and confluent, in others wanting altogether. Posterior 
wings subhyaline, slightly yellowish at the apex; most of the 
veins conspicuously brownish; a blackish streak follows the 
course of the fourth apical sector, and sometimes a blackish spot 
