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SyNoNyYMES sponsa. Kir. 
Puella var a. Lin. 
Length of body, from 17 to 18 lines. 
Expanse of wings, from 20 to 21 lines, 
This species occurs during June aud July in Kent; and is also 
stated to be found in the New Forest, at Wanstead in Essex, and in 
Suffolk. 
L. nympha. Kirby. Appears to be a dark variety of the preced- 
ing species, differing from it in having the legs of a redder colour, 
and the stigma black. 
L. forcipula. Charp. plate 6, fig. 4. 0 
Figuredin Charp. Tab. 34, f. 1, 2. 
SyNonyYME antumnalis. Lea. 
Length of body, from 153 to 19 lines. 
Expanse of wings, from 18 to 22 lines. 
This insect is found rather commonly during Autumn in the 
Marshes of Essex, in the New Forest, and occasionally in Battersea 
Fields, at which last place the specimen here figured (a remarkably 
small one) was captured in the middle of September, 1843. 
CALEPTERYX. Leach. 
Named from «aXos beautiful, and zrepov a wing. 
Areolets of the wings very close. 
The males have no stigma, and the anal forceps large. The 
Females have the stigma white. 
CaLePTeRyx virgo. Lin. plate 7, fig. 1, 7 2.9 
Figured Panz. Faun. Germ. fase. 79 Tab. 17 & 
Petagna, tome 2, Zab. 6, f. 3. 
Scheef. Icon. Tab. 48, f. 3. 0 
Reesel. vol. 2 aquat. Zab. 97.7. c 
as Parthenias. Charp. Zab. 33. 
splendeo. Harr. Exp. Eng. Ins., pl. 30, f 1." 
Length of body, from 21 to 22 lines. 
Expanse of wings, from 27 to 31 lines. 
This species is found commonly about June round London, 
(especially in the Hackney Marshes) and elsewhere. 
The male appears to be the more abundant; and varies con- 
siderably in the dark band across the wings, which, in some 
specimens, forms only a faint round mark. The wings of the female 
are yellowish. 
