RHYACOPHILID.i:. ANTICYRA. 159 



N. G. (552). Marshamella. Steph. Catal. 317. No. 3587 Be. Marshamella. 



Steph. Nomen. 2d edit. col. 119. — Thya Maurus. Phil. Mag. {Curtis) v. iv. 

 pi. 216. — Rhy. nigrocincta. Picfet, p. 197. pi. xvi. f. 23 .'' 



Deep black : wings fuscous-black, with a dull lutescent tint ; anterior rather 

 narrow ; cilia fuscous ; legs fuscous, with the knees and tarsi dull ochreous. 



From Marsham's cabinet. 



Genus VII.— ANTICYRA, Curtis. 



Antenna; stoutish, rather longer than the body, but shorter than the wings, the 

 apex slender, basal joint small : maxillary palpi stout, nearly glabrous, 

 depending, longish : head very hairy in front, small : e^/es not prominent : 

 wings long, nervures indistinct, anterior very narrow, obtusely rounded on 

 the hinder margin, moderately pubescent, and fringed with shortish hairs : 

 abdomen short, acute ; of the male with two horny lobes at the apex : legs^ 

 especially the two hinder pair, rather long and slender : anterior tibice with 

 a pair of short spurs at the apex, two posterior pair each with two long 

 spurs at the tip, intermediate pair with two towards the base, and hinder 

 pair with two below the middle : intermediate tibiae and tarsi dilated in the 

 females. 



Unlike the insects of the foregoing genus, these are distinguished 

 by having the wings, the anterior especially, very long and narrow, 

 but with indistinct nervures ; they are also very pilose, but the palpi 

 and basal joint of the antennae are but very slightly hairy, and the 

 last is not conspicuously enlarged, as in Bersea ; the legs are long, 

 the two hinder pair armed with long spurs, and the intermediate 

 tibi« and tarsi are dilated in the females. 



Sp. 1. phaeopa. Ochracea, capite thoraceque supra fuscis, alis aniicis griseo- 

 fuscescentihus, posticis iridescentibus, antennis hrunneis ochraceo cinctis, tihiis 

 tarsisque fusee scentibus. (Long. corp. 2^ lin. ; Exp. Alar. 5§ lin.) 



Ti. phaeopa. Steph. Catal. 316. No. 3575 — Rhi. tomentosa. Pictet, p. 189. 

 pi. xvi.jf. 9 ? 



Pale ochreous: head and thorax above fuscous; antennae brown, with 

 ochreous rings; anterior wings dull pale fuscous, with shortish cilia; 

 posterior pair paler, more transparent, slightly iridescent; legs long ; coxae, 

 trochanters, and femora pale ochreous ; tibiae and tarsi pale fuscous. 



Taken in June, at Ripley. 



Sp. 2. gracilipes. Pallide fusca, antennis pallidis nigro annulatis, alis anticis 

 nitide ochraceis, pedihus fulvescentibus. (Long. corp. 2\ lin. ; Exp. Alar. 

 5— 5| lin.) 



