Ochsenheimer's Genera of the Lepidoptera of Europe. 103 



Species. Icon. 



12. k^. Infesta, Treitsch. Ernst, VII. PL CCLXXXIX. 



f, 484. b. 



13. — Cespitis, Fab.* ... Ernst, VILPl.CCLXXX.f. 459. 

 Fam. D. 



14. Ap. Leucographa,\ixLh.\ Hubn.Noct.Tab. 88. f. 411. (mas.) 



Tab. 124. f. 572. (mas.) 



15. — Bella, Borkh Hiibn.Noct.Tab.l01.f.477.(mas.) 



16.— [/?«6ro5«, Hiibn.f Hiibn. Noct.Tab.97.f.456.(mas.) 



f. 457. (fcem.) 



17. — Cw/Jrea, Hiibn.... Hiibn. Noct. Tab.l3.f.62. (foem.) 



18. — Conflua, Treitsch.;}: 



19. — Hwworthii, Curtis. Curtis, Brit. Ent. pi. 260. 



Genus 61. MAMESTRA, Ochs., Treitsch. (Stephens.) 



Wings slightly deflexed during repose, anterior obscurely den- 

 ticulated on their hinder margin, posterior simple. 



Legs short, stout ; femora and tibiae very pilose intex'iorly ; 

 tibial spurs moderate. 



Palpi short, triarticulate, densely clothed with elongate scales 



pressed, acute; the first short, rather bent, the second stout at the 

 iiase, considerably attenuated at the apex : maxUlce scarcely as long as 

 the antennas. AntenncB moderate, rather stout, ciliated in the males, 

 and sometimes subserrate, pubescent beneath, with a few bristles in 

 the females : head small, densely pubescent in the forehead : eyes 

 large, globose, naked : thorax stout, woolly, subquadrate, scarcely 

 crested: wings deflexed during repose, not folded; anterior rather 

 long, emarginate on the posterior edge ; cilia nearly entire : body mo- 

 derate, carinated, and sometimes with some short fascicles of scales 

 on the back ; the sides and apex tufted in the males, scarcely so in 

 the females. Caterpillar naked : pupa subterranean." — Stejih. Illust. 

 Brit. Ent. III. 4. 



* Charveas, Steph. 



t Lyt/ea, Steph. 

 " Pnljii slightly ascending, triarticulate, the two basal joints densely clothed 

 with elongate, loose depending clavate scales, the terminal almost 

 naked; the two basal joints of nearly equal length, the first slightly 

 curved and very robust, the second more slender, gradually attenu- 

 ated from the base to the apex ; the terminal minute, ovate ol)tuse : 

 viaxUl<i: elongate. Antenna: rather long, serrated internally in the 

 males, and ciliated; simple in the females: head and thorax downy, 

 the latter stout and not crested : body rather short, slender, very 

 downy at the base, slender posteriorly and tufted at the apex, and on 

 the sides : wings horizontal, entii'e, very glossy ; anterior considerably 

 rounded at the base ; posterior scarcely emarginate on the hinder mar- 

 gin ; with a dark fimbria, and a more or less distinct transverse dusky 

 striga, with a central spot of similar hue. Larva radiclvorous : jmpa 

 subterranean."— .V^yj//. Illust. llril. Knt. II. ]()7, and 1!)!). 



X Ap. alis anticis liepaticis, inaculis ordinnriis pallidioribus, strigis obso- 

 letis conflucntibus. — Ochs. Treitsch. V\. pars I. p. 405. 



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