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PETROPHOKA Hiibner. Plate 1, fig. 7, la, lb. 



Petrophora Hiibn., Tent,, 1810 {autante). 

 Chloroelysta Hiibu., Verz., 33-', 18]8. 

 [in,, he Hiibu. (in part), Verz., 333, 1818. 

 Dysstroma Hiibu. (in part), Verz., 333, 1818. 

 Euslroma Hiibn. (iu part), Verz., 335, 1818. 

 Lygris Hiibn., Verz., 335, 1818. 

 Euphia Hiibn. (in part), 335, 1818. 

 Larentia Treits. (in part), Sehirj. Eur., vi (ii), 75, 1828. 

 (Maria Treits. (iu part), Schm. Eur., vi (ii), 140, 1828. 



Harpalyee Stepb. (iu part), Nomencl. Br. Ins., 44, 1839; "Cat., ii, 131, 1829." 

 Steganolophia Stepb.. Nomencl. Br. Ins., 44, 1829; "Cat., ii, 135, 1829." 

 Electra Stepb. (in part), Nomencl. Br. Ins., 44, 1829 ; " Cat., ii, 135, 1829." 

 Cidaria Dup. (iu part), Lep. France, viii (v), 298. 1830. 

 Harpalyee Stepb. (iu part), 111., iii, 220, 1831. 

 Polyphagia Stepb. (iu part), III., iii, 227, 1831. 

 Steganolophia Stepb., 111., iii, 232, 1831. 

 Lampropteryx Stepb. (in part), 111., iii, 233, 1831. 

 Electra Stepb. (in part), 111., iii, 238, 1831. 

 Cidaria Boisd. (in part), Gen. Ind.,212, 1840. 

 Larentia H.-Scb. (iu part), Scbm. Eur., iii, 141, 1847. 

 Not Cidaria StepU., Cat. Br. Lep., 188, 1850. 

 Electra Stepb. (iu part), Cat, Br. Lep., 189, 1850. 

 Harpalyee Stepb. (iu part), Cat. Br. Lep., 190, 1850. 

 •Steganolophia Stepb., Cat. Br. Lep., 1&50. 

 Lampropteryx Stepb. (iu part), Cat, Br. Lep., 193, 1850. 

 Polyphagia Stepb., Cat. Br. Lep., 195, 1850. 

 Lygris Led., Verb. Bot. Zool. Ges. Wieu., 252, 1853. 

 Cidaria Led. (in part), Verb. Bot. Zcol. Ges. Wien., 253, 1853. 



Gueu., Pbal., ii, 456, 1>57. 



Walk., 'List Lep. Br. JIus., xxv, l:'.7i:. 1862. 



The head is rather narrow, and not very full between the eyes, with 

 a slight interpalpal tuft ; palpi large and long, sometimes projecting beyond 

 the head a distance equal to the length of the head ; second joint extending 

 nearly its whole length beyond the front, broad at the end, the settles 

 spreading somewhat; third joint long and slender, acute, not so long as the 

 second joint is wide. Male antennse flattened, ciliated, never pectinated. 

 Fore wings usually distinctly falcate, the costa full, considerably arched 

 toward the acute apex, which is a good deal produced, while the outer edge 

 is unusually full and rounded and nearly as long as the inner edge. Hind 

 wings of the usual shape, scarcely extending beyond the end of the abdomen; 

 the apex produced, obtuse ; the outer edge full and rounded. The venation 

 is more rudimentary than in any other genus of the family; the discal venules 

 either entirely wanting (P. truncata, fig. 7) or incomplete (P. diversilineata, 

 tig. la), not reaching far from their respective origins ; there is sometimes 

 one subcostal cell (P. flavicata, tig. lb), but more usually two, the inner 



