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collar pale ochreous, with the sides pitchy ; thorax pale ochreous ; abdomen 

 the same, with a pitchy streak along' each side ; legs pale ochreous ; wings 

 abbreviated, hyaline, and iridescent, the costa and nervures brownish, the 

 latter with remote palish dots ; posterior wings rather paler. 



Found at Hertford, in July. 



d. Longitudinal nervures all united by two or more transverse ones, placed 



irregularly. 



Sp. 25. variegatus. Fuscus, alls albo hyalinis, fusco maculatis et subfasciatii 

 nervisque punctatis, antennis ochreo-riifis, pedibus pallidis. (Long. corp. 2 — 

 24 lin. ; Exp. Alar. 5—6 lin.) 



He. variegatus. Fabricius, — Steph. Catal. 312. No. 348L 



Deep fuscous : head very glossy in front ; antennse and palpi reddish-ochre ; 

 legs pale ; wings hyaline, white and iridescent, anterior with several large 

 blotches of deep fuscous, especially towards the inner margin and the apex, 

 sometimes disposed in one or two oblique transverse fasciae ; nervures 

 fuscescent, with large fuscous spots; posterior wings paler and more 

 transparent, with three or four distinct fuscescent clouds on the margin 

 towards the apex. 



A variable and beautiful species : in some examples the abdomen has an 

 ochreous stripe down the back ; others have the wings very slightly spotted 

 in the direction of the nervures ; in some the fuscous clouds are united in 

 distinct transverse fasciae, while in others they are placed irregularly, and 

 are not united. 



Common, in June and July, in woods about London, as at 

 Darentii, Coombe, Birch wood, &c.; also in Devonshire, Dorset- 

 shire, the New Forest, Scotland, &c. 



+Sp. 26. fimbriatus. Piceus, thoracis dorso maculisque ochraceis, alis subochraceis, 

 Jimbrid suhinterrvptdfuscescente. (Long. corp. 2\ lin. ; Exp. Alar. 5 lin.) 



He. fimbriatus. Curtis, v. v. pi. 202.— Steph. Catal. 312. No. 3485. 



Pitchy : thorax with a dorsal line and a spot on each side ochreous, meta- 

 thorax varied with the same; abdomen somewhat ferruginous at the base; 

 legs dull ochre ; femora, especially the posterior, pitchy ; base of the hinder 

 tibisE and tips of all the tarsi the same; wings somewhat ochreous, iridescent, 

 bordered with fuscous ; anterior spotted with fuscous, and the nervures 

 dotted with brown ; posterior with a short fuscous streak on the costal 

 edge. 



" Daddingston Loch, July." — Curtis, I. c. 



B. Anterior wings with the costal nervures furcate, with two discoidal nervures 



only arising from the inner longitudinal rib. 

 Sp. 37. elegans. Atro-piceus, nitidus, abdomine rufo-piceo, pedibus pallidis, 

 Mandtbttlata, Vol. VI., June 30th, 1836, v 



