432 ON THE DRYINID^. 



Var. /3. — Mas, antennis articuli l us . et 2 US . rufi, supra picei : pedes 

 pallide rufi ; femora et coxae picea, apice rufa : alis nervi pallide 

 fusci. 



Var. y. — Mas, coxae piceae ; trochanteres fusci ; femora nigro- 

 picea. 



Var. L — Mas, Var. y similis : pro- et mesopedum tibiae et tarsi 

 rufa, ilia? supra fuscse. 



Found in Scotland, and in the Isle of Skye, by Mr. Haliday. 

 September; Isle of Wight, Wales, Devonshire, Cornwall. 



Sectio III. 

 Genus. — Epyris. Westwood. 



Caput ovatum nutans latitudine thoracis : antenna? maris 13- 

 articulatae articulis flagelli cylindricis : areola radialis elongata in 

 alse apice incompleta : ungues integri. 



Sp. 1. Epyris niger. ( Westwood in Philosophical Magazine, 

 August, 1832, page 129J Statura fere Bethylli, differt 

 capite minore, antennis propins ab oculis, his pilosis: 

 thorace longiore : tarsis gracilioribus ; alarum anticarum 

 nervis humeralibus disjunctis, areolce brachialis anterioris 

 forma et radialis. (Long. corp. 2| lin. ; alar. 3|.) PI. XVI. 

 Fig. 6. 



Mas. — Caput ovatum nutans : oculi mediocres ovati distantes 

 laterales aboccipite remoti raro pilosi : ocelli tres in vertice in 

 triangulum collocati : antennae prope oculos ad basin clypei 

 foveolae quaeque insertae thoracis longitudine filiformes pubescentes 

 13-articulatae articulo primo majore cylindrico 2 minore obconico 

 reliquis cylindricis subaequalibus ultimo paulo longiore apice 

 attenuato : cannula faciei longitudinalis antennas integraret : 

 clypeus (vel epistoma?) brevis transversa antrorsum attenuata 

 margine antico recto : mandibular validae oblongae forcipatae apice 

 decurvae ibidem paululim dilatatae et oblique truncatae denticulis 

 4 extimo acuto : thorax oblongus deplanatus capite vix latius et 

 plus duplo longius : collare fere trigonum : mesothoracis scutum 

 transversum parapsides parvae deflexae trigonae dorsum lineolis 

 2 parallelis postice abbreviatis impressum : scutellum scuti fere 

 longitudine deplanatum trigonum : paraptera profunde excavata : 

 metathoracis paraptera in fundo crenata in dorso medio carinulas 



