LEPIDOPTERA HETEROCERA. 211 



Body pilose, hardly stout. Proboscis short. Palpi porrect, 

 pilose, extending very little beyond the head ; third joint elongate, 

 conical, about one-fourth of the length of the second. Antennae a 

 little more than half the length of the body. Abdomen extending 

 a very beyond the hind wings. Legs rather stout ; hind tibiae with 

 four long spurs. Wings hardly broad. Fore wings dark, with 

 pale veins and markings, straight in front, hardly angular at the 

 tips, slightly oblique aloDg the exterior border ; first, second and 

 third inferior veins approximate; fourth remote. Male. — An- 

 teunEE slightly pectinated. 



1. CHARiEAS GRAMINIS. 



Fusca ; abdomen cinerascens, apicc fulvescens ; alee anticce venis, 

 niacida annuloque discalibus villaque diffusa exleriore albidis ; 

 postica basim vei'sus albicantes, ciiiis albidis. 



Rail, Ins. 128, 4. Frisch, Ins, 10, pi. 21. Harr. 



Engl. Ins. pi. 5, f. 7. Deg. Ins. ii. 340, 5. Engr. Pap. 



dEur. pi. 395, a — d. 

 Phalaena-Bombyx graminis, Linn. Syst. Nat. i. 506, 73 ; Faun. 



Siiec. 1140. Act. Holm. 40, pi. 2. Gmel. ed. Syst. Nat. i. 5, 



2440, 73. 

 Bombyx graminis, Fabr. Sp. Ins. ii. 204, 148 ; Mant. Ins. ii. 133, 



208 ; Eut. Si/st. iii. 239. H'ien. Verz. 82, 3. Esp. Schmett. 



Eur. pi. QS, \. 1. Bork. Eur. Schmett. 171. Haw. Lep. Brit. 



117, 186. Oliv. Enc. Metk. v. 101, 263. Donov. Hist. Nat. 



Brit. Ins. pi. 458. Hiibn. Eur. Schmett. Bomb. f. 480, 481. 

 Bombyx tricuspis, Esp. Schmett. Eur. iii. 348, pi. tiS, f. 2, 3. 

 Lycophotia graminis, H'dbn. Verz. Schmett. 215, 2146. 

 Episema graminis, Treit. Schmett. Eur. i. 120. 

 Xylina graminis, Meig. Si/st. Besch. iii. 186, 12, pi. 110, f. 6; 



Handb. 154, 16. 

 Charaeas graminis, Steph. II. Brit. Ent. Haust. ii. 111. Dup.Hist. 



Nat. Lep. Fr. iii. 195, pi. 85. Guen. Noct. i. 176, 276. 

 Heliophobus graminis, Buisd. Ind. Meth. 112, 861 ; Icon. pi. 74. 

 Cerapteryx giaminis. Curt. Brit. Ent. x. 4ol. Steph. Cat. Brit. 



Lep] 62. 

 Cerapteryx hibernica, Curt. Brit. Ent. x. 451. 

 Episema albineura. Buisd. Icon. pi. 74, f. 4. 



a— ji. England. From Mr. Stephens' collection. 

 k — n. England. 



o,p. Scotland. From ^Ir. Foxcroft's collection. 

 q. Europe. From M. Becker's collection. 



