192 CATALOGUE OF 



beyond the hind wings. Legs rather stout ; hind tibiae with four 

 long spurs. Wings rather long and narrow. Fore wings testaceous 

 and brown or wood-colour, straight in front, slightly angular at the 

 tips, rather oblique and slightly denticulate along the exterior bor- 

 der; first and second inferior veins contiguous at the base; third 

 more than twice further from the fourth than from the second. 



Europe. 



1. Peodenia Eetima. 



Cervina ; thorax fusco fasciatus ; alee anticce ex parte fuscce^ litu- 

 ris costalihus hasalihus et discalibus albidis, fasciis duabus 

 {una interiore altera exteriore) glaucescentibus^ vena mediana 

 venis inferioribus striga obliqua discali lineaque submarginali, 

 strigis exteriuribus nigris ; posticce albce, opalince, fusco vix 

 marginatce. 



Hadena littoralis, Boisd. Faun. Ent. Mad. Bomb, et Maur. Lep. 



91,2, pi. 13, f. 8. 

 Neuria retina, Feiv. Herr.-Schceff. Eur. Schmett. ii. 292. Noct. pi. 



29, f. 145. 

 Prodenia Eetina, Guen. Noct. i. 163, 259. 



Crete. European Turkey. Asia Minor. Madagascar. Mauritius. 



a. Madeira. Presented by Mrs. Hope, 

 i, c. Congo. Presented by Sir J. Richardson. 

 rf, e. North India. Presented by Gen. Hearsay. 

 /. Nepaul. Presented by W. W. Saunders, Esq. 

 'g^ Ji^ ? From Mr. Milne's collection. 



hj' • 



North America. 



2. Prodenia Commelin^. 



Cinerascens ; thorax fusco nigroque fasciatus et vittatus ; alee an- 

 ticce disco fuscescentes, strigis basalibus discalibus et exteriori- 

 bus nigris^ lineis subcostalibus^ striga obliqua discali, vena 

 mediana, macula apicali lineaque siibmarginali albidis, fascia 

 obliqua abbreviata exteriore fusca ; posticce albce, opalince. 



Var. Teslacea ; thorax fasciis arcuatis fuscis albidisque ; alee 

 anticce disco ex parte fusees, strigis lanceolatis maculaque 

 apicali lestaceo-albidis ; posticce albce, opalince, cervino vix 

 marginatce. 



Phalsena commelinse, Abbot ^ Smith, Nat. Hist. Lep. Ins. Georgia, 

 ii. 189, pi. 95. 



