96 MAXDIBULATA. NEUllOPTERA. 



lines ; abdomen with a slender black line on each side^ some faint dots of the' 

 same towards the hinder margin of each of some of the posterior segments, 

 and two dorsal spots at the base of the 8th and 9th segments ; legs yellow, 

 with slender black lines; tarsi biack ; wings hyaline, sometimes deeply 



■ stained with fuscous, the base concolorous, or very faintly tinged, especially 

 the females, with yellowish; stigma smoky-brown, or pale red, sometimes 

 j^ellow. Female olivaceous ; thorax as in the male ; abdomen with an 

 interrupted black streak on the sides, and sometimes a dorsal stripe of the 

 same on the 8th and 9tli segments. 



The wings are sometimes deeply suffused with brown ; at others perfectly 

 hyaline. 



Very abundant, throughout the metropolitan district, in July and 

 August ; taken also near Dover, in the New Forest, Devonshire, &c. 



Sp. 13. basalis. Flavescens, alis hasi et marginibus costalibns croceo tenuiter 

 svffusis, stigmate suhinfuscato, pedibus nigris, femoribus aniicis subtus 

 Jlavis. (Long. corp. 1 unc. 3 — 4 lin. ; Exp. Alar. 1 unc. 11 lin. — 2 unc. 

 1 lin.) 



Li. basalis. Steph. Catal. 309. No. 3439. 



Dull yellow; thorax of an olivaceous tint, its sides of a brightish yellow, with 

 irregular oblique black lines ; abdomen with a faint black dorsal line, and on 

 the posterior segments a distinct lateral one, composed of irregular black 

 spots ; legs black, the anterior femora beneath yellow, their coxae and tro- 

 chanters pale straw-colour; wings hyaline, stained with pale saffron -colour 

 at the base and along the costal margin, especially the hinder pair; stigma 

 pale smoke-coloured, or flavescent. 



Found, in June and July, at Colney Hatch, apparently not very 

 common ; also at Deptford once. 



Sp. 14. flaveola. Flavescens, pedibus nigris, extus flavo lineatis, alis hyalinis aut 

 flavescentibus basi, posticarum, prasertim^ Icete croceis, stigmate Jlavo. (Long, 

 corp. 1 imc, 4 — 5 lin. ; Exp. Alar. 2 unc. — 2 unc. 3 lin.) 



Li. flaveola. Linne.— Steph. Catal. 309. No. 3437. 



Reddish-yellow; thorax of a brighter hue on the sides, especially beneath, and 

 faintly streaked with black ; abdomen black beneath and on the lower part 

 of the sides, the base of the 1st segment also black ; legs black, with a yellow 

 line externally on the femora and tibiaj; tarsi black; wings hyaline, or 

 slightly yellowish, anterior with a saffron-coloured blotch at the base, and 

 in the females with another near the centre of the upper margin ; posterior 

 wings with a large blotch of the same colour at the base, extending com- 

 pletely across the wing, and occupying above one quarter of the surface ; 

 stigma opaque straw-coloured, or brownish. 



Rare near London ; more abundant in Scotland ; it also occurs 

 near Whittlesea Mere, 



