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iridescent, with the apex a little ochreous ; legs pale-ochreous, with dusky 

 spines. 



Also found within the metropolitan district, about Hertford, in 

 June. 



Sp. 38. bipartitus. Ochraceus, alls anticis pallidioribus, margine interno et 

 postico vage brunneo irroratis, disco lined longitudinal i brunnea. (Long. corp. 

 4|— 5lin.; Exp. Alar. 10—11 lin.) 



Lira, interruptus. Steph. Catal. 323. iVo. 3717.— Lim. bipartitus. Phil. Mag. 

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



Ochreous : anterior wings paler, with the costa immaculate, the inner margin 

 darker, thickly and irregularly freckled with brown, as is a triangular blotch 

 on the hinder margin ; this space is bounded on the disc with a longitudinal 

 brown line, partially interrupted towards the apex; posterior wings whitish, 

 hyaline, with a yellowish tinge towards the apex; legs ochreous, with dusky 

 spines. 



Not uncommon, in August and September, at Coombe wood, and 

 in other places within the metropolitan district ; taken also in the 

 New Forest and near Dover. 



Sp. 39. vittatus. Subtestaceus, alis anticis ochraceo flavis, vitta longitudinali 

 interrupta brunnea. (Long. corp. 3^ lin.; Exp. Alar. 9 lin.) 



Phr. vittatus. Fabricius, E. S., Sapp. 201. — Lim. vittatus. Steph. Catal. 323. 

 No. 3718. 



Pale testaceous-ochre : thorax and abdomen rather darker, the latter with a 

 palish lateral streak ; anterior wings with an interrupted longitudinal brown 

 line, expanded at the apex, the inner and posterior apical margins of the 

 wing darker than the costa ; posterior wings yellowish, hyaline, slightly 

 darkest at the apex ; legs pale ochreous, with black spines. 



Apparently scarce : taken, in September, near liOndon. 



Sp. 40. nigrivittatus. Ochraceus, antennis pedibusque pallidioribvs, alis anticis 

 ochraceo-Jlavis, lined abbreviata longitudinali media nigra, margine postico 

 brunneo irrorato, siigmate brunneo. (Long. corp. 4§ lin.; Exp. Alar. 11 lin.) 



Lim. lineola. Steph. Catal. 323. No. 3719. — Phr. elegans. Pictet, p. 137. 

 pi. x.f. 3. 



Ochreous : head with a blackish dash between the antennse, which are pale 

 ochreous ; abdomen rather dusky above ; anterior wings ochreous-yellow, 

 shining, and rather narrow, with the nervures light ; on the hinder margin is a 

 triangular blotch, formed of brown freckles, and on the disc, rather beyond 

 the middle, is a short longitudinal black streak, placed over the 5th longi- 

 tudinal nervure; stigma brown; posterior wings transparent, whitish, 

 faintly tinted with ochreous at the apex ; legs ochreous, with black spines. 



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