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PRAT MERI 
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HEMEROBIUS HIRTUS, 
NEUROPTERA. 
Wings four, naked, tranfparent, reticulated with veins or nerves, 
Taif without a fting. 
GENERIC CHARACTER. 
Mouth prominent. Palpi four. Wings deflexed. Antenne longer 
than the thorax, taper, extended. 
SPECIFIC CHARACTER. 
Firft wings tranfparent reticulated with brown veins, hairy. Veins 
fewer on the fecond wings. 
Hemerosius hirtus, alis albis fufco reticulatis, fafciis 
duabus fufcefcentibus. Linn. Sy/t, Nat. 
2. 912. 6.— Fn. Sv. 1507. 
Degeer Inf. 2.2.70. 12. tab. 22. fig. 4. § 
This very common Infe& is found on the nut tree, and oak. It 
conceals itfelf in the middle of the day among the foliage, or flies only 
in moift, fhady places. It is always obferved to be very brifk at the 
approach of a thunder ftorm, like the Hemorobius Perla, &c. 
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