NOCTUID7E. — CEROPACHA. 51 



Genus CXXIX. — Ceropacha* mihi. 



Palpi short, porrect, scarcely ascending, somewhat distant, two basal joints 

 clothed with long scales or hairs, terminal more or less elongate and exposed ; 

 basal joint rather short, a little stouter than the second, and renifomi; 

 second elongate acuminate, the apex somewhat obliquely truncate ; terminal 

 subclavate, obtuse; maxillce rather short. Antennoe short, robust, rather 

 slender at the base and apex, somewhat compressed in the middle, pubescent 

 within, occasionally subserrate, simple in the females: head small, trans- 

 verse, with a fascicle of hairs on the forehead : eyes globose, naked : thorax 

 not crested, sometimes rather woolly: abdomen more or less attenuated; with 

 or without lateral tufts, the back carinated : ivings deflexed diu-ing repose, 

 entire, rather various in form ; anterior obtuse on the posterior margin, with 

 the apex somewhat acute. Larva elongate, slender, naked, sometimes residing 

 in a tortuous leaf: pupa folliculated. 



The genus Ceropaclia, as its name — which however is not clas- 

 sically constructed, the proper term Pachycera having been more 

 than once preoccupied — implies, may be readily known by the 

 brevity and stoutness of the antennae, which are somewhat flattened 

 towards the middle, and slightly attenuated at each extremity: 

 but the genus, as it at present stands, is evidently a very artificial 

 one ; nevertheless I have not thought proper to separate the various 

 members of which it is composed, but have permitted them to 

 remain as in my Catalogue as sections, pointing out some of their 

 more conspicuous deviations from the type. 



A. With the anterior wings very broad and glossy; the abdomen slender; the 

 palpi very short and slender, with the scales rather abbreviated on the basal 

 joints. 



Sp. 1. fluctuosa. Alis anticis cinereo-albicantibus fascid latissimd fused in medio, 

 in qud lunula strigisque nigricantibus. (Exp. alar. 1 unc. 4 — 8 lin.) 



No. fluctuosa. Hubner.—Ce. fluctuosa. Steph. Cafal. part ii. p. 95. No. 6300. 



Head cinereous or fuscous: thorax griseous-brown, with the anterior and 

 lateral margins cinereous ; anterior wings cinereous at the base, with a black 

 dot and fuscous striga ; then a broad fuscous fascia extending beyond the 

 middle of the wing, in which are some darker flexuous strigs, and an obscure 

 black limule, edged exteriorly with whitish, in place of the posterior stigma; 

 beyond the fascia is a slender denticulated fuscous striga, and towards the 

 hinder margin is an indented whitish one, arising from an oblique blackish- 

 streak on the costa, placed on a dusky ground ; on the margin itself is 



* Ki^as, cornu ; f5-»;^;aj, crassus. 



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