O CATALOGUE OF 



Body moderately slender. Palpi short, nearly straight, alike 

 in colour; third joint indistinct. Antennae slender, squamous 

 above, velvety or pubescent beneath in the male. Legs long, 

 smooth, rather stout ; hind tibiae with four short spurs. Wings 

 ample, sericeous, with more or less streaks. Fore wings acute, tri- 

 angular. Hind wings quadrangular, extending beyond the abdo- 

 men ; exterior border forming a caudiform angle. 



Europe. 

 1. Ueapteryx sambucaria. 

 Flava ; caput antice fuscum ; aim strigulis paucis transversis 

 olivaceis, linea inferiore subochracea ; anticce linea exteriore 

 subochracea ; posticce fimbria ex -parte ochracea, lituris dua- 

 bus apud angulum, la rufa, 2a nigra. 

 , Goed. Ins. ii. pi. 34. List, Goed. f. 10. Petiv. 



Gazoph. pi. 51, f. 6. Rai, Ins. 177, I. Albin, Ins. pi. 94. 



Roes. Ins. i. Phal. 3, pi. 6. Geoff. Ins. ii. 138, 58. Wilk. 



pi. 78. Clerck, Icon. pi. 50, f. 2. Deg. Ins. ii. 1, 447, 3. 



Schceff. Icon. pi. 93, f. 8. Sepp. Ins. i. 6, 3, pi. 1. DeVill. 



Ent. Linn. ii. 293, 404. 

 Phalsena-Geometra Sambucaria, Linn. Syst. Nat. i. 2, 860, 203 ; 



Faun. Suec. 1222; Mus. Lud. Ulr. 391. Fabr. Sp. Ins. ii. 



243, 12; Mant. Ins. ii. 186, 16; Ent. Syst. Hi. 2, 134, 19. 



Wien. Verz. 103, 1. Gmel. ed. Syst. Nat. i. 5, 2449, 203. 



Brahm, Ins. ii. 1, 351, 234. Bork. Eur. Schm. v. 80, 37. 



Esp. Schmett. v. 51, pi. 8, f. 1—8. III. N. Ausg. dess. i. 398, 



1. Fuessl. Schw. Ins. 39, 754. Schr. Faun. Boic. ii. 2, 11, 



1622. Gotze, Ent. Beytr. iii. 3, 285, 203. Mull. Zool. Dan. 



Prodr. 125, 1435. Lang. Verz. ii. 167, 1167. Hubn. Geom. 



pi. 6, f. 28. Haw. Lep. 297. 

 Therinia sambucaria, Hubn. Verz. Schm. 290, 2820. 

 Urapteryx sambucaria, Leach, Zool. Misc. 80, pi. 35, f. 2. Steph. 



Ins. Brit. Haust. iii. 175. Dup. Lep. v. 199, pi. 184. Curt. 



Brit. Ent. pi. 508. Boisd. Ind. Meth. 182, 1435. Herr.-Sch. 



Eur. Schm. iii. 54, 141. Staint. Man. ii. 4. 

 Acaena sambucaria, Treit. Schm. vi. 1,85, I. 

 a. England. Presented by Edwin Shepherd, Esq. 

 6— n. England. From Mr. Stephens' collection. 

 o — p. England. 



g — v. Europe. From M. Becker's collection. 

 u. France. 



w. ? Presented by E. Doubleday, Esq. 



x. ? 



