132 LLOYD'S NATURAL HISTORY. 



FAMILY HYPOGRAMMID^E. 

 GENUS ANTHOCITTA. 



Anthoritta, Hiibner, Verz. bek. Schmett. p. 259 (1822 ?). 

 Hypogramma, Guenee, Spec. Gen. Lepid. Noct. iii. p. 34 (1855): 



Walker, List Lepid. Ins. Brit. Mus. xiii. p. 1095 (1857), 

 The antennae are simple, very slightly ciliated in the male. 

 The palpi are long, slender, bare, and up-curved, with the third 

 joint pointed, and nearly as long as the second. The proboscis 

 is short, and the abdomen smooth and conical. The legs are 

 rather long, nearly smooth, with a pencil of 'hairs at the base 

 of the intermediate tibiae in the male. The wings are entire, 

 marbled with black and white, and with a white patch towards 

 the tip of the hind-wings. Median nervure four-branched, all 

 the branches rising close together at some distance from the 

 base. 



ANTHOCITTA SUBLUCIDA. 



(Plate CXXX., Fig. 5.) 

 Hypogramma subludda, Walker, List Lepid. Ins. Brit. Mus. 



xiii. p. 1097, no. 5 (1857). 



This Moth is a native of Brazil. " Brown. Body cinereous 

 beneath. Abdomen cinereous brown. Fore-wings with irregu- 

 lar transverse black undulating lines, and with a few black 

 patches ; a whitish band beyond the middle, white beneath, and 

 corresponding to the tips of the hind-wings. Hind-wings with 

 snow-white tips ; under side cinereous from the base to the 

 middle, where there are two slight brown bands. Length of 

 the body, nine lines ; of the wings, twenty-two lines " ( Walker], 



V. NOCTILE LIMBAT^E. 



To this Division belong the largest of the European Noctiia. 

 Although the lame are provided with sixteen legs, they loop 



