British Species of May-flies of Anglers. 3 
Gen. 7362. Bracuycercus Curt. 
Head short ; eyes small and remote, at least in one sex; thorax large and 
ovate ; abdomen not longer than the thorax, terminated by 3 very short 
sete, thick at the base: wings 2, rather short but ample, the form of a 
Musca, with many longitudinal nervures and 3 transverse ones between the 
costa and disc; legs short, at least in one sex,— Obs. These characters, al- 
though imperfect for want of specimens, are sufficient to distinguish this 
group for the present. 
1. Harrisella Curt.—Harris’s Exposition, tab. 6. f. 3 § 1. 
5 lines long, 
2. Chironomiformis Curt. 
2+ lines: ochreous shining ; eyes black ; wings milk white, costa fuscous ; 
legs whitish. ‘This insect somewhat resembles a large female Chironomus. 
3. minima Curt. 
14 line. My specimen, taken in Norfolk twenty years since, is much in- 
jured ; the head and collar are blackish, the body white, legs and filaments 
pale ochre; wings similar to the last. 
Order TRICHOPTERA. Fam. PHRYGANID. 
Gen. 748. Limnepuinus Leach.—Curt. Brit. Ent. v.11. fol. 
488. 
A. Posterior margin’ of superior wings emarginate. 
1. basalis Curt. 
Expansion cf wings 16 lines: pale dirty ochre; superior wings freckled 
with brown, leaving an oblique plain spot on the disc, with a larger one 
connecting it with the apex ; stigma and a sinuated oblique line at the base 
piceous, 3 pale spots on the posterior margin ; tips of inferior wings ochre- 
ous variegated with brown ; body green. 
2. emarginatus Curt. 
17 lines # dull ochre; superior wings mottled with a deeper colour, a pale 
oblique spot on the disc unconnected with one beyond it, and a short nar- 
row one approaching the posterior margin, which has three spots, and the 
edge of the angle as well as the stigma piceous; apex of inferior wings 
brownish ochre ; body green. 
B. Superior wings truncated obliquely at the apex. 
$. Strigosa Gmel. 
20 lines: dull ochre; superior wings more or less freckled with brown, 
having a dark longitudinal line at the apex of each wing, sometimes obli- 
terated in the superior. 
5. binotatus Curt. 
16 lines: superior wings ochreous yellow, deepest towards the base, with 
three pale spots on the disc and a large one covering the transverse 
nervures, a large brown spot at the posterior angle; stigma large ovate 
and piceous. 
67, discoidalis Curt. ‘ 
15 lines: superior wings pale brown, with the costa (as far as the stigma), 
a large spot below the disc connected with a large one covering the trans- 
verse nervures, and numerous dots semitransparent ; apical margin of in. 
ferior wings fuscous. 
