216 CATALOGUE OF 



Genus 2. LUPERINA. 



Corpus robustum. Proboscis brevis. Palpi porrecti, pilosi, 

 caput superantes ; articulus 3us longi-conicus, 2i quadrantebrevior. 

 Antennae siroplices, corporis dimidio breviores. Abdomen alas pos- 

 ticas dimidio superans. Pedes sat validi; tibiae posticae calcaribus 

 quatuor mediocriter longis. Alae sat angustae ; anticae apud costam 

 rectas, apice subrotundatae, margine exteriore subobliquo subdenti- 

 culato vix angulato. 



Luperina, p., Boisd. Ind. Mkh. 145 ; Dup. ; Guen. 

 Sideridis, p., Huhii. Verz. Schmett. 232. 

 Dianthaecia, p., Graslin. 

 Polia, p., et Orlbosia, p., Herr.-Schceff. 



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

 somewhat beyond the head ; third joint elongate-conical, more than 

 one-fourth of the length of the second. Antennae simple, less than 

 half the length of the body. Abdomen extending for half its length 

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

 moderately long spurs. Wings rather narrow. Fore wings straight 

 in front, somewhat rounded at the tips, slightly oblique and denti- 

 culated, and hardly angular along the exterior border ; first, second 

 and third inferior veins nearly contiguous at the base ; fourth mode- 

 rately remote. 



1. Luperina LUTEAGO. 



Cervina; thorax testaceo varius ; abdomen iestaceum ; alcB anticcB 

 basi posteriore, maculis variis fasciaque exteriore testaceis, 

 guttis ciliaribus fuscis ; posticce iestaceo-cinerecB, ciliis tes- 

 taceis. 



-, E7igr. Pap. dEur. 372, a, b ? 



Noctua luteago, Wien. Verz. 8, 6. Fabr. Mant. Ins. ii. 160, 169 ; 



Ent. Syst. iii. 2, 75, 216. H'ubn. Samml. Eur. Schmett. 184. 

 Noctua lutea, Bork. Eur. Schmett. 296. 

 Noctua brunneago, Esp. Schmett. pi. 196, f. 2, 3. 

 Noctua olbiena, Geyer^ Samml. Eur. Schmett. 829, 830. 

 Phalaena-Noctua luteago, Gmel. ed. Syst. Nat. i. 5, 2577, 1184. 

 Sideridis luteago, H'ubn. Verz. Schmett. 232, 2330. 

 Gortyna luteago, Treit. Schmett. Eur. ii, 338. 

 Luperina luteago, Dup. Hist. Nat. Lep. Fr. Suppl. iii. 246, pi. 23, 



f. 3, 4. Boisd. Ind. Meth. 145, 1169. Guen. Ann. Sac. Ent. 



Fr.vl', Noct. i. 181,279. 



