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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, n. Tab. 

 169, f. A, B, was placed erroneously by LINNAEUS amongst the Attaci 

 (JBombyx) ; it is smaller, brown -coloured, and has an eye-shaped spot on 

 the fore-wings. 



Lithosia FABR. Tongue distinct, long, spiral. Labial palps 

 I ylindrical, shorter than head, with third joint shorter than the 

 I receding, or coalesced with the second. Antennae moderate, seta- 

 laous, in males ciliated or subpectinate. Ocelli none. Anterior 

 | r ings narrow, horizontally incumbent. Caterpillars solitary, with 

 lixteen feet. 



Sp. Lithosia quadra, Phalcena (Noctua) quadra L., ROBSEL, Ins. I., Pap. 

 nod. Cl. n. Tab. xvn. ; SEPP, Nederl. Ins. in. 40 Stuk, Tab. vi. ; 

 DUMEKIL, Cons. gen. s. I. Ins. PI. 42, fig. i 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 : Nudaria HAWORTH, STEPH. (spec, of Lithosia OCH- 

 SENH., species of Callimorpha LATH.) 



Sp. Lithos. mundana OCHSENH., Phalcena mundana L., HOFFMANN. Na- 

 turforscher, xxvni. 1799, Tab. I. figs, i 5. 



! Euprepia OCHSENH. (Arctia SCHRANK, Chelonia GODART, 

 OISDUV.) Tongue distinct. Antennas in males ciliated or pecti- 

 i.ite. Ocelli two. Wings deflected, variegated with colours often 

 lyely, anterior triangular, posterior furnished with retinaculum. 

 larvae with sixteen feet, mostly hirsute with dense hairs. 



Callimorpha LATH, (in part). Tongue elongate. Antennae simple, 

 ciliated in males alone. 



(Sub-genera: Emydia, Euchelia, and Callimorpha BOISDUV., species 

 of Euprepia and Lithosia OCHSENH.) 



Sp. Euprepia Jacobcece, Phal. (Noct.) Jacobcece L., R(ESEL, Ins. I., Pap. noct. 

 Cl. n. Tab. XLIX. ; SEPP, Nederl. Ins. 46 Stuk, Tab. xi ; the upper wings 

 dark-bluish grey with two carmine-red stripes along the anterior arid 

 inner margin, and two round spots of the same colour ; the hind-wings 

 carmine-red with a narrow black border. 



Arctia SCHRANK. Tongue short. Antennae, in males at least, 

 bipectinate. Abdomen thick. 

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