204 CATALOGUE OF 



Neuronia, Huhn. Verz. Schmett. 215. 



Heliophobus, Boisd. hid. Meth. ; Steph. ; Duponch. ; Guen^e, Ann. 



Soc. Ent. Fr. vi. 350 ; Noct. i. 168. 

 Episema. p., Boisd. 

 Episema et Hadeua, Treits. 

 Heliophobus et Cladocera, Ramh. 

 Neuria, p., et Orthosia, p., Herr.-Schaff. 



Body stout, very pilose. Proboscis moderately long. Palpi 

 stout, pilose, ascending ; third joint elongate-conical, about one- 

 fourth of the length of the second. Antennae about half the length 

 of the body. Abdomen extending for one-third of its length 

 beyond the hind wings. Legs very pilose ; hind tibiae with four 

 long spurs. Wings moderately broad. Fore wings with various 

 markings, and with pale lines on the veins, straight in front, slightly 

 angular at the tips, very slightly oblique along the exterior border; 

 second inferior vein a little nearer to the third than to the first; 

 fourth moderately remote. Male. — Antennae deeply pectinated. 

 Abdomen tufted at the tip. 



Group 1. T)pe. 

 1. Heliophobus populakis. 



Fuscus ; thorax alhido nigroque lineatus ; abdomen albidum, pos- 

 tice ohscurius fusco fasciatum ; alee anticce albido venoscB 

 lineolis marginalibus nigris fuscisque annulis discalibus tes- 

 taceis nigra marginatis, lineis transversis duplicatis interiori- 

 bus denticulisque exterioribus nigris, his testuceo fasciatis ; 

 posticce sordide albidce, margine lato cinereo. 



-, Engr. Pap. d'Eur. 244, a— c. Fabr. Sgst. Ent. 



577, 71. 



Phalaena-Bombyx popularis Gmel. ed. Syst. Nat. i. 5, 2440, 576. 

 Bombyx popularis, Fabr. Mant. Ins. ii. 133, 209 ; Ent. Syst. iii. 1, 



484,240. Oliv. Enc. Meth. v. 101, 264. Kliim, Brit. Ins. 



Ges. ii. pi. 2. Haiv. Lep. Bnt. 63. 

 Noctua graminis, Wien. Verz. 82, 3. Hubn. Samml. Eur. Schmett. 



Noct. 59. 

 Neuronia popularis, Hubn. Verz. Schmett. 215, 2148. 

 Hadena Popularis, Treit. Schmett. Eur. v. 1, 316, 5. 

 Bombyx Lolii, Esp. Schmett. iv. pi. 198, f. 3, 4. Bork. Eur. 



Schmetl. iv. 398, 161. 

 Noctua (Hadena) popularis, Meig. Handb. 159, 31 ; Syst. Besch. iii. 



105, 41, pi. 97, f. 2. 



