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[M»rch, 



flexible process, twice longer than tlie individual joint. Meso- and 

 meta-thorax usually, but not always, with tbe surface of tbe lobes 

 somewhat blackish. 



Wings greyish-white : anterior wings with very numerous short 

 transversely-elongate spots, which are more or less confluent ; in the 

 middle of the disc is a larj^er and darker spot, which bears in its centre 

 a horny blackish dot most visible on the under-side ; towards the base 

 is another similar but smaller spot, and there are also larger and darker 

 spots round the apical margin ; neuratiou yellowish, the veins and 

 margins shortly fringed with yellow : posterior wings with the darker 

 spots almost obsolete, more evident in the apical portion ; the pteros- 

 tigmatical region yellowish-grey ; a vestige of the median dark spot 

 with horny centre, as in the fore-wings; the fringe of the inner margin 

 much longer, yellow. 



Legs pale lemon-yellow, with long yellow pubescence \ the knees 

 and tarsal articulations marked with blackish. 



Abdomen fuscous, densely clothed with long pale yellow hairs. 

 The last dorsal segircut apparently carries in the middle a very small 

 yellow lobe : the lateral valves are very large, 

 concave, yellow, and with long yellow fringes ; 

 in the middle, above, they seem to be joined 

 together by a band which leaves an open space 

 between it and the margin of the last segment, 

 in which space is seen the small lobe men- 

 tioned above ; when viewed from above, these 

 lobes appear to end in a long curved process, 



Apex of abdomen of Dilar, -i • i • n i ji • j. j 



iiornei, McL., 6 . which IS really only the in-turned upper mar- 

 gin J when viewed from beneath, they form two large rounded lobes, 

 not connected in the middle : the parts in the cavity formed by these 

 lobes are piceous, with two small triangular piceous appendices, the 

 tips of which are somewhat mucronate and turned outwards. 



I have seen three males, taken by Mr. Horne. 

 20, Limes Grovo North, Lewisham, S.E. ; February, 1869. 



DESCRIPTION OF A NEW SPECIES OF PHILH7DRU3. 

 BY D. BHARP, M.B. 



I can find no description of the following species of Philhydrus 

 (HelocJiares)j which is confounded in our collections with H. lividus. 



