LEPIDOPTERA. — NOCTUID&. 391 
Mr. Curtis introduces into this family the genus Nudaria, placed 
by Stephens near Psyche ; in its ample wings, however, it differs from 
the habit of this family, although its hirsute larva, and its transparent 
cocoon, in which the hairs of the larvae are worked, agree there- 
with. Réaumur (vol. i. pl. 36.) and Schaffer (Abhandl. vol. iii. 
pl. 2.) have published the history of this genus with figures, over- 
looked by Mr. Curtis, who has also given figures of the transform- 
ations. See also Der Naturforscher, st. 28. 

The ninth family, Nocrurp * Steph., is one of very great extent, 
and tolerably well defined in its characters, having the body robust, 

the antennz almost constantly simple (ig. 108. 7. antenna of Plusia), 
being but very rarely pectinated or ciliated in the males ; the thorax 
stout, and often crested; and the wings of moderate size, with strong 
nerves (fig. 108. 1. Plusia Gamma), and generally with peculiar ear- 

* Breviocr. ReFer. to THE Nocruip®. 
Beckwith. ist. and Deser. of four N. Sp. Phalene, Linn, Trans. vol. ii. 
Payhull, in Trans. Swed. Acad. 1786. (Noctua telifera. ) 
Eversmann, in Bulletin Soc. Nat. Moscow, 1837. 
Rambur, in Annales Soc. Ent. de France, tom. iii, (Cucullia.) — Ditto, tom. iii. 
(New Noctua. ) 
Boisduval, in Silbermann’s Rey. Entomol. vol. ii. (New Noctue.) 
Guenée. Classification of the Noctuide, in Annales Soc. Ent. de France, 1837. 
Boisduval, Duponchel, Pierret, Guenée, Donzel, Rambur, Memoirs on various de- 
tached species in ditto. . 
And the general works of Ochsenheimer and Treitschke, Hubner, Haworth, Esper, Fa- 
bricius, Stephens, Curtis, §e. &c. 
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