182 LLOYD'S NATURAL HISTORY. 



b. Palpi securiform, or recurved above the front. Abdomen 

 nearly smooth , Amphigoni\i\d<E. 



B. Wings entire, or simply dentated, or pointed at the tip. 



Thermesi\i~\d(Z. 



FAMILY FOCILLID.E. 



GENUS ZETHES. 



Zethes, Rambur, Ann. Soc. Ent. France, ii. p. 29 (1833); 

 Guende, Spec. Gn. Ldpid. Noct. iii. p. 329 (1852); 

 Walker, List Lepid. Ins. Brit. Mus. xv. p. 1522 (1858). 

 This genus is widely distributed, though not numerous in 

 species. The wings are rather short and broad. 



ZETHES INSULARIS. 

 (Plate CXL. y Fig. 4.) 



Zethcs insulariS) Rambur, Ann. Soc. Ent. France, ii. p. 29, 

 pi. 2, fig. i (1833) ; Duponchel, Lepid. France, Suppl. iii. 

 P- 553> pl- 47 (*836); Guene, Spec. Gen. Lepid. Noct. 

 iii. p. 330 (1852); Kirby, Eur. Butterflies and Moths, 

 P- 273, pl- 57, fig- i (1881). 

 Noctua nattyi, Freyer, Neuere Beitr. Schmett. iii. p. 43, Taf. 



222, fig. 2 (1837). 



This Moth is a native of Corsica, Greece, Dalmatia, and Asia 

 Minor. It expands about an inch and a quarter. 



The fore-wings are brown, dusted with grey, as far as the 

 second line. The half-line is brown, bordered outside with 

 whitish, but is short, and sometimes obsolete. The first trans- 

 verse line is brown and broad, especially on the costa, and 

 bordered with white on both sides ; it runs irregularly to the 

 costa. The second line is white, forming two curves outwards, 

 but converges obliquely towards the first line on the inner 

 margin ; the marginal area and a long patch running outwards 



