214- Mr. Curtis's Descriptions of some hitherto nondescript 



seous hair, edges of abdominal segments white; wings pale black, superior 

 obscurely freckled with ochre ; legs fulvous, thighs fuscous. 



Gen. 753. Leptocerus Lea. 

 A. Superior wings with two furcate apical cells. 



1 1 . cinereus Curt. 



12 lines; antennae very long, black anmilated with white, clothed with 

 griseous hairs ; wings fuscous, superior clothed with grey pubescence; costa 

 slightly ochreous, as well as some indistinct marks, a small port'on of the 

 base of the inferior wings pale ochreous ; tibias and tarsi of the same colour. 

 B. Superior wings with a line of transverse nervures forming the apical cells. 



12. ochraceus Curt. Brit. Eat. v. 2. fol. 57. 



13. testaceus Curt. 



8 lines-, reddish ochre, very pubescent ; antennae long; eyes black ; cilia 

 fuscous ; inferior wings transparent, subfuscous at their tips. 

 C. Wings very narrow, with few nervures. 



15. bicolor Curt. 



8 lines : bright ferruginous ochre ; antennae very long, black anmilated with 

 white; abdomen and inferior wings blackish ; legs fulvous. 



16. tineiformis Curt. 



6 lines : antennae 4-i- lines long, white anmilated with black ; cinereous 

 pubescent ; superior wings very lanceolate, the nervures dotted with fus- 

 cous : legs ochreous white. 



Gen. 754 a . Molanna Curt. 



Antenna? stout, as long as the wings; abdomen short ; wings long, narrow 

 and rounded at the apex, superior with a short furcate cell at the apex, a 

 long one below and an oblique nervure above it ; discoidal cells very long ; 

 legs long and pubescent ; first pair of spurs on lour posterior tibiae consi- 

 derably below the middle. 



1. angustata Curt. 



3 lines long, 12 broad : very pubescent and silky, tawny; antennae spotted 

 fuscous ; head, thorax and abdomen fuscous ; nervures dark ; inferior 

 wings pale fuscous ; legs fulvous. 



Gen. 755. Odontocerus Lea. 



2. maculipennis Curt. 



16 lines: pubescent black; head and thorax griseous, scutellum ochreous ; 

 superior wings ochreous ; nervures, margin and cilia black, a spot on the 

 costa, the stigma, another beyond it, a large one at the posterior angle 

 and several small ones round the disc pale black ; legs fulvous, anterior 

 pair and thighs dusky. 



I took a single specimen of this beautiful insect, flying over a stream in 

 the New Forest, in June. 



Gen. 758. Seiucostoma Lat. 



Maxillary palpi recurved, densely hairy, compressed and forming an ob- 

 tuse rounded front to the head in the males ; elongated and distinctly arti- 

 culated in the females. 



1. Latreillii Hal. 

 <J 10 lines, 9 14: fuscous; base of antennae with orange scales in the 



