220 MANDIBULATA. TRICHOrXERA. 



Ochreous-brown, paler beneath : abdomen with the margins of its segments 

 pale ; anterior wings brownish, obscurely freckled with darker tints, with 

 a somewhat crescent-shaped transparent spot in the middle towards the 

 inner margin, an ovate spot beyond the transverse nervines, w^hich are 

 dusky, also transparent, the stigma dull pitchy-brown; posterior wings 

 slightly fuscescent, transparent and very iridescent; legs dull ochreous, 

 with blackish spines. 



Also somewhat uncommon : found in the neighbourhood of London 

 in July. 



Sp. 22. Auricula. Ochraceus, alis anticis lucidis, saturate ochraceis, macula 

 media, alter a que auriculwformi posticc hyalinis, stlgmate obscure Jusco. 

 (Long. corp. 4—5 lin. ; Exp. Alar. 10 — 11 lin.) 



Lim. fenestralis. Steph. Catal. 322. No. 3703.— Lim. Auricula. Phil. Mag. 

 (^Curtis) V. iv. p. 124. 



Ochreous : head, thorax, and abdomen above fuscescent, the margins of the 

 segments of the latter and the under surface greenish-ochre during life; 

 antennse faintly anmdated with brownish; anterior wings shining and 

 pubescent, deep ochre, with a transparent spot on the disc, varying in 

 magnitude, and sometimes nearly obliterated, and a larger irregular, some- 

 what earshaped one over the transverse nervures, which are pale ; stigma 

 obscure fuscous-ochre ; posterior wings whitish-hyaline, pale brown at the 

 tip ; legs pale tawny-ochreous, spines fuscescent. 



The inner margin of the anterior wings is occasionally fuscescent. 



Not uncommon, in June and July, within the metropolitan dis- 

 tiict ; taken also near Carlisle, in Devonshire, the New Forest, 

 Suffolk, Scotland, &c. 



Sp. 23. geminus. I^uscus, alis anticis lucidis, fascescente-ochraceis, macula 

 geminata media hyalina, stigmate ochraceo. (Long. corp. 3^ — 5 lin. ; Exp. 

 Alar. 9—11 lin.) 



Lim. geminus. Steph. Catal. 322. iVo. 3704. 



Fuscous : beneath ochreous ; edges of the abdominal segments pale ; anterior 

 wings rather narrow, shining and deep dusky-ochreous, with a double 

 hyaline spot in the middle, in other respects immaculate ; posterior wings 

 dusky-hyaline, very iridescent, with their apex fuscescent; legs pale tawny, 

 with blackish spines. 



Found, in the vicinity of London, at Hertford, Ripley, &c. in 

 June ; also taken in the New Forest. 



Sp. 24. obscurus. Ochraceus, alis anticis angustis fusco-och-aceis, macula 

 ccntrali ser Usque duabus puncto7-um posticis hyalinis, stigjnate fusco-ochi'aceo 

 (Long. corp. 4—5 lin. ; Exp. Alar. 10—12 lin.) 



