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Abroad it is iuuiul all over tlie continent ol' luirope except 

 the more northern countries, in the South of Sweden, in the 

 Ural Mountain district, and in Central Asia. 



Genus 1 -i. NEURIA. 



Antenn.e simple ; eyes hairy, with obscure lashes ; tliorax 

 rather strongly crested ; abdomen long, singly crested, the 

 tuft depressed ; fore wings broad behind, nervures all pale ; 

 hind wings rather elongated. 



We have but one species. 



I. N. saponariae, BUi. ; reticulata, SimtrL Cal. — Ex- 

 pause, l\ to If inch. Antennae simple; fore wings light 

 umbreous, with transverse lines, upper stigmata, and all the 

 nervures sharply yellowish ; hind ^iugs brownish-white. 



AntenntD of the male simple, minutely ciliated, light 

 brown ; palpi small, only moderately tufted, pale brown, 

 apical joint minute ; head pale bro^vn, rather strongly tufted 

 between the antenmc ; collar erect, very pale brown, grace- 

 fully barred with two pairs of slender arched purple-brown 

 lines ; shoulder lappets of the same colour, with two similar 

 lines ; rest of the thorax also pale brown, crested at top and 

 back, the top crest being dotted with purple-brown ; fascicles 

 yellowish-white ; abdomen pale brown, on the basal segment 

 a single oblique, horseshoe-shaped crest, only visible in some 

 specimens, most likely shaken oft' in flight ; when present it 

 is prettily barred with brown and white ; lateral and anal 

 tufts spreading, reddish brown, the latter paler at the tip. 

 Fore wings rather triangular, broad behind ; the costa nearly 

 straiglit ; apex rounded or bluntly angulated ; hind margin 

 hardly oblique, nearly straight to below the middle, thence 

 rounded oft'; dorsal margin almost straight, colour rather 

 pale umbreous, clouded with darker, all the nervures and 

 other markings conspicuously whitish-brown ; basal line 

 limited to two pale crescents edged inwardly with black, 

 first line broad, angulated near the costa, thence rather 

 direct, edged on each side with dark brown, but preceded by 



