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hindwings ; palpi slioi-t, tliick, porrect, first and second joints laxly squamose 

 beneath, second joint thick, third joint short, conical ; antennae minutely pectinated 

 in male, setose in female; legs stont, middle and hind tibite with long spurs. 



CALOGRAMMA FESTIVA (Plate 146, Fig. 6). 

 Noctuafestiva, Donovan, Epit. Ins. New IIoll. (1805). 

 Calogramma festiva, Walker, Catal. Lep. Het. B. M. ix. p. 198 (1856). 

 Poliapicta, Boisd. Voy. Astrol. I. Lep. p. 241 (1832). 

 Noctua plcta, Guerin, Voy. Coquille, ii. p. 285, pi. 19, f. 7. 

 Calogramma picta, Guen. Noct. i. p. 166. 



Forewing dull yellowish-ochreous, or pale testaceous-yellow ; with some ill- 

 defined black basal streaks on the costa and below the cell ; an interrupted transverse 

 antemedial sinuous duplex line, some triangular marks, followed by the renifbrm mark 

 within the cell, a lengthened lanceolate mark from the antemedial line below the cell, 

 a zigzag discal denticulated duplex line, and an outer discal interrupted series of short 

 black streaks ; all these markings being more or less bordered with purple-red, the 

 costal edge also streaked with purple-red : hindwing opalescent ochreous-white. 

 Body yellowish-ochreous ; thorax, head, palpi, and legs streaked with purple-red. 



Expanse \\ to If inch. 



Genus NEURIA. 



Neuria, Guenee, Ann. Sec. Ent. Fr. x. p. 241 (1841); Dnpout. Catal. Meth. Enr. Lep. p. 138; Gnen. 

 Noct. i. p. 166. 



Male : forewing elongate, apex obtusely pointed, exterior margin oblique and 

 slightly convex ; first subcostal emitted at one-half before end of the cell, second at 

 one-fourth, trifid, fifth from end of the cell and joined to third near its base by a 

 short spur ; discocellular obliquely concave, bent close to each end, radials from the 

 angles ; middle median from angle close to end of the cell, lower at one-third before 

 the end ; submedian recurved : hindwing short, exterior margin convex ; two sub- 

 costals from end of the cell ; discocellular bent in the middle, radial from below the 

 middle ; two upper medians from end of the cell, lower at one-third before the end ; 

 submedian and internal curved. Body stout, thorax laxly clothed ; palpi stout, laxly 

 pilose, slightly ascending, third joint thick, cylindrical, short ; antenna minutely 

 serrated and ciliated; legs thick, spurred. 



{N. Saponarice.) 



NEUEIA RETRAHENS. 

 Hadena retraliens, Walker, Catal. Lep. Het. B. M. xi. p. 757 (1857). 

 Male : forewing purplish cinereous-brown ; with a transverse subbasal and an 

 antemedial outwardly oblique purplish-white black-bordered undulating line, the 



