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palelunular spots ; cilia fuscous: posterior wings fuscous with a paler marginal 

 fimbria, in which is an undulated and somewhat angulated darker or dusky 

 striga parallel with its inner edge, which is also dusky; cilia pale fuscous. 



Of this species I have seen but two examples, one in Mr. Swain- 

 son''s collection, the other in my own; the latter captured about 

 three years since in the north of England. 



Genus CLVII. — Catephia, Ochsenheimer. 



Palpi somewhat remote at the base, approximating at the apex, rather elongate, 

 porrected obliquely; the two terminal basal joints densely clothed with elon- 

 gate scales, the apical or terminal ones with compact shorter ones, the last 

 joint conspicuous and acute, all slender when denuded, the basal reniform, 

 nearly half the length of the second, which is attenuated to the apex ; the 

 terminal one elongate, linear, subacute : maxillw rather long. Antennw long, 

 slender, finely pectinated in the males; /teat? broad, not crested: eyes naked: 

 thorax slightly crested : ivings entire, forming a triangle during repose ; 

 anterior elongate triangular, of dingy colours and markings, with obscure 



tSp. 4. grandirena. AHs griseo-nigris,fasciis duabus oblique contrariis, maculd 

 magnCi reniformi interject/t, pallidis. 



Phy. grandirena. Haworth. — Op. grandirena. Steph. Catal. part ii. p. Ill, 

 No. 6419. 



Anterior wings griseous-brown, with a slender pale oblique entire fascia before 

 the middle, and another more obscure behind the middle divaricating exteriorly 

 from the first, between these is a large reniform spot ; cilia, except at the 

 apex, fuscous: posterior wings pitchy-brown, with a pale stout hneola from 

 the base to the middle, a large black patch in the middle, and another pale 

 lineola near the hinder margin ; cilia white, but fuscous behind the middle of 

 the wing. 



Dr. Leach, subsequently to the description of the above species, expressed his 

 doubts of the indigenous origin of his insect, which, as it is a native of 

 Georgia, may well be questioned : — though it may be remarked that many of 

 the species of the semidiurnal Noctuidae, especially the ErastriiE, appear to 

 have their representatives in Georgia, apparently in the state of trifling va- 

 rieties, though, as such variations are constant, I consider them rather as 

 distinct species. Vanessa Atalanta is amongst the number of insects said to 

 inhabit both continents; but as in all the American examples which I have 

 seen the abbreviated oblique white fascia on the anterior wings does not extend, 

 by means of a minute somewhat triangular patch, into the fourth areolet, 

 and there are other similar minute and constant differences, which cannot 

 possibly arise from climate, &c., I conceive it to be a distinct species from 

 ours, which has constantly a conical prolongation of white in the areolet in 

 question. 



