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FIG. I. 

 PHRYGANEA VARIA? 



Neuroptera. 



GENERIC CHARACTER. 



Mouth furnifhed with four palpi. Stemmata three. Antenrisfe 

 longer than the thorax. Firft wings incumbent. Secood wings 

 folded, 



SPECIFIC CHARACTER. 



Wings greyirti brown, variegated with black, and fpotted in the 

 middle with white. 



PhrygANEA Varia: alls cinereo, nigroque variis : punclo medio 

 diftindo niveo, antennis nigris. Fab. Ent. SyJI. T. 2. 



P' 77' 103- 



The Phryganea Varia of Fabricius has not been figured by any 

 author; but is, we fufpect, no other than a fmall variety of P. 

 Grandis, and which Linnaeus defcribes as *' alts cinereo tejiaceis-^ 

 ** lineolis duahus longiiudinalibus nigris, punSlo albo.'^ Fabricius has 

 altered this definition to " alis tejiaceis cinereo maculatis" in the 

 Entomohgia Syjlematica, and erroneoufly attributes the latter to 

 Linnaeus. 



We cannot avoid, in fupport of our opinion, noticing the 

 ftriking diflimilarity between the feveral figures of Phryganea 

 Grandis, in our copies of the works quoted by Linnasus and Fa- 

 bricius. Roejel has two figures, one of a bluifti grey, the other 



H yellowiih 



