117. 



ACHATEA SPRETA. 



The Pine-destroying Noctua. 



Order Lepidoptera. Fam. Noctuadae Lat., LeacJi. 



Type of the Genus Bombyx spreta Fab. 



AcHATEA Hub. — Bombyx Fab., Panz. — Phalsena Noctua Kob., Panz. 

 j^ntenncE inserted at the back of the head, serrated (la) and 

 somewhat thickest in the middle in the males, slender in the fe- 

 males, composed of numerous joints, covered with scales above, 

 hairy beneath, the basal joint large and hairy. 

 MaxiUcE long, furnished with tentacula towards the apex (3). 

 Labial palpi small, very hairy, porrected horizontally (4), 3 -joint- 

 ed, 1st joint curved upward, long robust, 2nd short robust, at- 

 tenuated, 3rd minute, cylindric truncate (4 a, the scales being 

 removed) . 

 Head small, nearlij concealed. Eyes small (7). Thorax large hairy. 

 Abdomen robust short, very soft and hairy beneath. Wings deflex- 

 ed tvhen at rest ; superior obtuse, inferior rather small. Legs ante- 

 rior short. Tibiae anterior short with a S7nall spine on the internal 

 side, 4 posterior terminated by spurs. Tarsi 5-jointed. Claws large 

 (8, a fore leg). 

 Larvae naked with 6 pectoral, 8 abdominal, and 2 anal feet. 



Spreta Fa6. Ent. Syst. t.3. pars 1. p. 455. n. 151. Panz. Faun. Ins. 

 Germ.fasc. 82. n. 24. Piniperda Kob's Monog.p. 51. tab. l.fig. 1 

 — 12. — ochroleuca Hub. 



Head rosy ochre, thorax of the same colour, the anterior and late- 

 ral portions margined with white, a spot in the middle and one 

 on each side white also : antennae brown. Superior wings ochre 

 variegated with rosy red, sometimes inclining to castaneous, a 

 pale transverse line near the base and another waved and crenated 

 near the posterior margin white and castaneous : between the 

 costa and middle a subquadrate yellowish spot and an oblique 

 subreniform larger spot of the same colour (ochraceous in the 

 middle) connected with the former by a pale line ; nervures 

 whitish ; cilia pale, the edge dark interrupted : Abdomen and in- 

 ferior wings fuscous, the former reddish towards the apex ) cilia 

 of the latter pale, rosy at the base. 



In the Author's and other Cabinets. 



