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with whitish and with many marginal guttae. (From the descrip- 

 tion of Walker.) 



Length to tip of wings 13 millim. Alar expanse 25 millim. 



Hah. St. Martin's Falls, Albany River, Hudson's Bay (Barn- 

 ston). 



It is allied to R. vulgaris Pict. 



2. R. torva! 



Rhyacophila torva Hagen ! 



Rufo-fuscous ; antennae* and palpi rufo-fuscous ; head and thorax 

 brownish-black; feet testaceous ; abdomen luteous ; wings fusco- 

 hyaline, with fuscous veins ; anterior ones with dense luteous 

 guttae. Male. 



Length to tip of wings 10 millim. Alar expanse 19 millim. 



Hah. Washington ; Trenton Falls (Osten Sacken). 



BERAEA Stephens. 



Spurs arranged 2, 4, 4 ; palpi densely pilose ; the first article 

 of the antennae thick, pilose; no ocelli. 



1. B. maculata ! 



Beraea ? maculata Hagen ! 



Black, with black hair ; antennae yellow, the base, middle and 

 apex blackish-fuscous ; palpi fuscous ; feet whitish, annulated with 

 black ; abdomen pale beneath ; anterior wings black, with black 

 hair and cilia, with two white, transverse apical lines, and the apex 

 pointed with white ; posterior wings black, the anterior at the 

 apex emarginated. 



Length to tip of wings 4 millim. Alar expanse tj millim. 



Hah. St. Lawrence River, Canada (Osten Sacken). 



Does it belong to this genus? 



2. B. viridiventris. 



Phryganea viridiventris Say, West. Quart. Report. II, 160, 1. 



Pale fuscous, with cinereous hair ; antennae pale fuscous, the 

 base whitish ; feet, head, and thorax beneath, white ; abdomen 

 green ; the anterior wings blackish, ciliated, beyond the middle 

 with a few whitish spots, somewhat arranged in two bands ; 



