LEPIDOPTEEA HETEEOCERA. 65 



Leucania, p., Boisd. ; Meig. 

 Symira, p., H'libn. Verz. Schmett. 

 Asema, Sodoff] Bull. Soc. Imp. Mosc. xiv. 

 Symira, Herr.-Schcejf. Eur. Schmett. ii. 178. 



Body stout. Proboscis not visible. Palpi short, pilose. An- 

 tennae slender. Abdomen extendini^ more or less beyond the hind 

 wings. Legs hardly stout ; liind tibiae with four rather long spurs. 

 Wings rather narrow or of moderate l)readth. Fore wings hardly 

 convex in front, acuminated at the tips, rather oblique along the 

 exterior border ; first, second and third inferior veins almost con- 

 tiguous at the base ; fourth remote. Male. — Antennae slightly pec- 

 tinated. Female. — Antennce simple. 



Group 1. 



Palpi caput paullo superantes. Abdomen alas posticas dimidio 

 superans. Alee sat angustcE ; anticse apud costara perobliquae. 



Palpi extending a little beyond the head. Abdomen extending 

 for half its length beyond the hind wings. Wings rather narrow. 

 Fore wings very oblique along the exterior border. 



1. SiMYEA DENTINOSA. 



Cinerea ; al<B alhidcB, anticce areolis fusco strigatis. 



Noctua dentinosa, Frey. Neu. Beit. Schmett. iii. 97, pi. 263. 

 Simyra dentinosa, Dup. Hist. Nat. Lcp. Fr. Suppl. iii. 42(), pi. '^7. 



Guen. Ann. Soc. Ent. Fr. \'\. ; Nod. i. 61, 82. Eversm. Faun. 



Volgo Ural. 263. Boisd. Ind. Meth. 136, 1090. 

 Symira tendinosa, Friv. ; Herr.-Schcejf. Eur. Schmett. ii. 179, 8, pi. 



76, 77, f. 393, 394. 



Turkey, Ural district. Oremburg, Sarepta. 

 a, 6. Europe? From M. Becker's collection. 



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