10 Mr. Children's Abstract of the Characters of 



lines of demarcation between the respective groups. They 

 are briefly as follows : 

 Fam. a. With fine lines and transverse bands of a light co- 

 lour on the anterior wings. 



B. The males with strongly pectinated antennae. 



■ C. The anterior wings with an indented transverse band 



near the outer margin, and irregular oblong or reni- 

 form spots between the indented band and the base 

 of the wing. 



D. The anterior wings with light-coloured transverse 



fasciae, and a conical spot, extending from the base 

 of the wings nearly to the second cross band. 

 Fam. a. Species. Icon. 



1. H. Sapo7iarice, Hubn. Ernst, VII. Pl.CCLXXXI. f.462. 



2. — Perplexa, HUbn. Ernst, VII. Pi. CCXC.f 488. c.d. 



3. — Capsi7icola, Huhn. Ernst, VII. PL CCLXXX.f 460. 



4. — Cucubali, HUbn. Ernst, VII. Pl.CCLXXXI.f.463. 

 Fam. B. 



5. ll.Popularis,Y?ih.... Ernst, V. PI. CLXXX VII. f. 243. 



244. 



6. — LeticophcEa, Hubn. Ernst, V.*Pl.CLXXXVIII.f.245. 

 Fam. C. c— h. 



7. H. G/a?<c«, Hiibn.... Hubn. Noct. Tab. 87.f.410.(foem.) 



8. — Proxima, Hiibn. Hiibn.Noct. Tab.87.f409.(foem.) 



9. — Marmoivsa, Bork. Ernst, VI. Pl.CCXXXVII.f.348. 



1 0. — Dcnti7ia, HUbn . . . Ernst, VI. PI. CCXLII. f. 356. 



11. — Peregrina,^vei.isch.* 

 Fam. D. 



12. H. Arnica, Treitsch.f 



in the males : head small, with a crest between the antennae : eyes 

 rather prominent, naked : thorax stout, with an anterior and posterior 

 crest : abdomen slightly depressed, with a carina in the male : wings in- 

 cumbent, faintly denticulate: legs short, rather stout. Larva v\ake<\, 

 with the anal segment a little elevated : puj^a follicuiated, with a single 

 spine at the apex." — Stcjih. Illust. Brit. Ent. Haiistcll. II. 165. 

 Stephens complains of the unnatural union of the Noctuas Maura and 

 Tyjnca, Linn, effected by Ochsenheimerand Treitschke, "than which," he 

 says, " nothing can be more unnatural, their only resemblance consisting in 

 the dinginess of their colours." — " Nreniix may be readily known by the 

 peculiar bifid appearance of the apex of the palpi, arising from the elonga- 

 tion of the scales,— combined with the highly crested thorax, dingy, reti- 

 culated, and subcrenated wings." — Steph. I. c. 



* Had. alls anticis argillaceis, macula conicS obscuriori, striga postica 

 dentata albida, maculis sagittiformibus brunneis; posticis albis, fusco veno- 

 sis. — Treitschfce. 



t Had. alls anticis fnsco rubroquc variis, macula anteriori oblonga, re- 

 niforraique albidis, fascia postic^ violacea. 



13. Sa- 



