PHRYGANID^. — LIMNEPHILUS. 21^ 



nervures darker ; abdomen ochreous, greenish beneath during- life ; legs pale 

 tawny-ochreouSj faintly annulated with brownish, spines black. 



Taken near London, in June, and in the New Forest. 



Sp. 13. griseus. Fusco-griseus, alls anticis brunnesceniihus flavido irroratis 

 maculaque albida, stigmate nigra fusco. (Long, corp.5 — 62 lin.; Exp. Alar. 

 13— 15§lin.) 



Phr. grisea. Linnc. — Lim. griseus. Steph. Catal. 322. No. 3688. 



Head and thorax griseous-brown above, ochreous beneath ; mouth tawny ; 

 antennte brown, annulated with griseous ; anterior wings fuscous, minutely 

 freckled with pale yellowish, with some of the nervures, especially on the 

 hinder margin, dotted with deep brown ; towards the middle of the disc is 

 an indistinct whitish blotch ; the transverse nervures are blackish-brown, 

 and terminated in a large ovate stigma of a similar hue ; posterior wings 

 transparent, with the nervures and apex brownish; legs ochreous, with 

 black spines. 



Not very abundant, at least within the metropolitan district, where 

 it occurs in July ; found also in the New Forest and in Scotland. 



Sp. 14. costalis. Ochraceus, alis anticis fuscescentihus nehulis saturatioribus, 

 nervis transversis fuscis, alteris plerisque fusco irroratis, stigmate perfusco. 

 (Long. corp. 6 lin.; Exp. Alar. 13 lin.) 



Lim. costalis. Steph. Catal. 322. No. 3699. 



Ochreous : head and thorax above ashy ; antennae pitchy, with paler rings ; 

 wings pale fuscescent ochre, anterior obscurely freckled with darker clouds, 

 most of the nervures, especially those towards the inner margin, dotted with 

 brown, and the transverse ones wholly of that colour ; stigma conspicuous 

 and deep brown ; posterior wings hyaline and highly iridescent ; abdomen 

 fuscescent above, ochreous beneath; legs dull ochreous, with black spines. 



Taken near London, and at Whittlesea Mere, in June and July. 



Sp. 15. affinis. Pallide ochraceus _ alis pallidioribux, immaculatis, nervis piceo 

 irroratis, stigmate piceo. (Long. corp. 5§ — 6 lin.; Exp. Alar. 13 — 14 lin.) 



Lim. punctulatus. Steph. Catal. 322. No. 3700.— Lim. affinis. Phil. Mag. 

 {Curtis) V. iv. p. 123. 



Pale ochraceous : antennae fulvescent, annulated with brown ; abdomen 

 brownish above, with the margins of the segments pale ; anterior wings 

 pale fuscous, freckled irregularly with ochreous ; nervures, especially the 

 transverse ones, more or less dotted with pitchy-brown ; stigma pitchy ; 

 posterior wings transparent and highly iridescent, faintly tinted with 

 ochreous at the apex ; legs pale fulvescent, with the extreme tips of the 

 tarsal joints and the spines black. 



Also found, but not very abundantly, within the metropolitan 

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