PSOCID.E. PSOCUS. 119 



dots; stigma fuscous, its basal half yellow; hinder immaculate; legs pale, 

 with the knees yellow ; antennae pale, and very slightly pilose in the male. 



Taken in June, near London. 



Sp. 6. maculatus. Piceus, pedibus antennisque pallidis ; alls anticis hyalinis 

 macuUs distantibus fuscis sparsis. (Long. corp. f lin. ; Exp. Alar. 4 lin.) 



Ps. maculatus. Steph. Catal. 311. No. 3456. 



Pitchy, with an ochreous hue; eyes black; antennae and legs pale; wings 

 hyaline, with the chief portion of the nervures, the apical half of the stigma, 

 and several remote spots, fuscous, the hinder margin also fuscous. 



Also taken near London, in June. 



Sp. 7. subfasciatus. Ochraceus, capite thoraceque nigro variegatis, ahdomine 

 piceo, pedibus pallidis aUs anticis hyalinis fasciis 2-bus maculisque variis fuscis. 

 (Long. Corp. 1 lin. ; Exp. Alar. 4i lin.) 



Ps. subfasciatus. Steph. Nomen. '2d edit. col. 116. — Ps. obsoletus. Steph. 

 Catal. 312. No. 3495. 



Ochreous: head and thorax varied with black, the sutures yellow; abdomen 

 pitchy; legs pale ; anterior wings hyaline, stained with yellow, with the 

 nervures and two oblique interrupted fasciae, and some dots on the hinder 

 margin fuscous ; posterior hyaline, immaculate. 



Found within the metropolitan district, in June. 



2. Wings not variegated ; nervures distinct. 



* Discoidal areolet closed hy one of the radiating nervures. 



Sp. 8. lineatus. Ochraceus, brunneo maculatus, capite lineis rifo-brunneis, alts 

 anticis basi nigro fasciato. (Long, corp, 1| — 1| lin. ; Exp. Alar. 54 — 7 lin.) 



Ps. lineatus. Latreille.— Steph. Catal. 416. A^o. 3496. 



Pale ochreous, spotted with brown ; head with several red-brown longitudinal 



streaks ; anterior wings with an oblique black streak at the base within ; 



nervures and stigma pale fuscous. 

 The anterior wings have occasionally one or two fuscous clouds towards the 



apex. 



Very common on trunks of trees, &c. in woods within the metro- 

 politan district : also taken in Suffolk. 



Sp. 9. nebulosus, Ochraceus, capite brunneo lineato, ocellis et maculis thoracis 

 nigris, ahdomine piceo, pedibus pallidis, alls anticis hyalinis venis nehulisque 

 aliquot fuscis. (Long. corp. 1 — 1§ lin.; Exp. Alar. 4^ — 6a Un,) 



Ps. nebulosus. Kirby ? MSS.— Steph. Catal. 312. No. 3497. 



Pale ochreous : mouth, eyes, ocelli, and some spots on the thorax black ; head 

 with longitudinal brown lines ; abdomen pitchy ; legs pale ; anterior wings 



