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upper surface of wings white, with black lines forming many angles and 
curves, the under surface brown-grey with white spots. This species is 
one of the largest in this order ; the body is two inches long, but the fore- 
wings, which are very long, surpass those of all the rest in breadth 
of flight, for the points are distant from each other more than nine inches, 
Another species also from South America, Noctua odora CRAMER, I. Tab. 
169, f. A, B, was placed erroneously by LinnmuS amongst the Attaci 
(Bombyx) ; it is smaller, brown-coloured, and has an eye-shaped spot on 
the fore-wings. 
Lithosia Fasr. Tongue distinct, long, spiral. Labial palps 
cylindrical, shorter than head, with third joint shorter than the 
preceding, or coalesced with the second. Antenne moderate, seta- 
ceous, in males ciliated or subpectinate. Ocelli none. Anterior 
wings narrow, horizontally incumbent. Caterpillars solitary, with 
sixteen feet. 
Sp. Lithosia quadra, Phalena (Noctua) quadra L., Ra@sev, Ins. 1., Pap. 
noct. Cl. 11. Tab. xvit.; Sepp, Nederl. Ins. 111. 4e Stuk, Tab. v1. ; 
Dumérin, Cons. gén. s. l. Ins. Pl. 42, fig. 1 bis; wings outspread 2”, 
yellow, the upper wings in the male grey-yellow, in the female yellow, 
with two steel-blue or black spots ; the feet blue. 
Sub-genus: Vudaria Haworrn, Stern. (spec. of Lithosia Ocu- 
SENH., species of Callimorpha Latr.) 
Sp. Lithos. mundana OcHsENH., Phalena mundana L., Horrmann. Na- 
turforscher, XXVIII. 1799, Tab. I. figs. I—5. 
Euprepia OCHSENH. (Arctia Scurank, Chelonia GODARt, 
Borspuyv.) Tongue distinct. Antenne in males ciliated or pecti- 
nate. Ocelli two. Wings deflected, variegated with colours often 
lively, anterior triangular, posterior furnished with retinaculum. 
Larvee with sixteen feet, mostly hirsute with dense hairs. 
Callimorpha Latr. (in part). Tongue elongate. Antennze simple, 
ciliated in males alone. 
(Sub-genera: Hmydia, Euchelia, and Callimorpha Boispuv., species 
of Huprepia and Lithosia OCHSENH.) 
Sp. Zuprepia Jacobew, Phal. (Noct.) Jacobee L., Raset, Ins. 1., Pap. noct. 
Cl. 1. Tab. xnix.; Sepp, Nederl. Ins. 4e Stuk, Tab. x1; the upper wings 
dark-bluish grey with two carmine-red stripes along the anterior and 
inner margin, and two round spots of the same colour; the hind-wings 
carmine-red with a narrow black border. 
Arctia Scurank. Tongue short. Antenne, in males at least, 
bipectinate. Abdomen thick. 
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