Qg [September, 
Apparently rare iu the South of England. Grange, near Man- 
chester (B. Cooke) ; abundant in a field close to Loch Eannoch 
(Marshall). 
SuB-Div. 2.— HTDEODEOMICA. 
Section 1 . — Htdeometeina. 
Family 1. — Htbeometrid^. 
Genus I. — Htdrometea, Fab. 
Species 3*. — Hydbometra Cost^. 
Htdrometea CosTiE, R. Schf., Wanz. ix., 71, t. 301, fig. 927 (1850) ; 
Fieb., Europ. Hem., 107, 5 (1861). 
Hydbometra bueoscutellata, Oosta, Cent. 2, t. 2, fig. 8 (1843), 
nee. Latr. 
Above blackish-brown, robust, very broad across the region of the 
middle coxae ; pronotum broadly ferruginous. 
iTefli?— especially on the sides, with golden hairs, cheek-plates and 
lahrum yellow, rostrum black. Antennce yellow-brown, last joint 
black, apex of all the others blackish. 
Thorax — Pronotmn, anterior portion black, much depressed (except in 
the middle), sides incrassate ; posterior portion broadly ferruginous, 
the sides only black, clothed with very fine golden scale-hairs ; 
posterior angles prominent but obtuse, disc obscurely punctured, 
sometimes close behind the anterior portion transversely crenate ; 
the central longitudinal keel on the anterior part yellowish, then 
black, and posteriorly of the ferruginous colour of the disc ; on 
the under-curved sides, posterior to the constriction, a ferruginous 
line extends as far as the posterior angles. Elytra brown ; nerves 
black with golden scale-hairs, the space between the first inner 
nerve and the next usually whitish for some distance, the other 
intervals sometimes yellowish. Wings fuscous, pale at the base, 
nerves darker. Sternum flat, black, with fine golden hairs, espe- 
cially on the sides of the mesosternum ; Prosternum yellowish in 
front of the cox» ; Metastermom, in the ^ , with a small tubercle ; 
sheaths of the 2nd pair of coxae very large and projecting; on their 
underside, and also on that of the 3rd pair, a large ochreous spot. 
Legs — 1st pair : fulcra yellow, broadly black beneath ; thighs black* 
with a broad yellow-brown line on the inner side ; tibice yellowish- 
brown, with a black line on the outside ; tarsi black ; 2nd and 3rd 
pairs : cox<s a,ndi fulcra black above, ochreous beneath ; thighs dark 
brown above ; yellowish-brown beneath ; tibice and tarsi black. 
