1550 CATALOGUE OF 
Genus 1. HEPIALUS. 
Corpus sat gracile. Caput et thorax pilosa, Palpi obsoleti. 
Antenne breves, graciles, simplices, filiformes. Abdomen alas pos- 
ticas paullo superans. Pedes validi, pilosi. Ale longe, anguste ; 
antice apud costam subrecte, apice subrotundate, margine exte- 
riore perobliquo. Mas.—Tibie postice fasciculate. 
Gorgopis, p., Gazoryctra, Pharmacis et Triodia, Hiibn. Verz. 
Schmett. 198. 
Phalena-Noctua, p., Linn. 
Phalena-Hepialus, p., Gmel. 
Hepialus, Fabr.; Schr.; Latr.; Haw.; God.; Leach; Samou. ; 
Curt. ; Steph. 
Hepiolus, Tig. ; Ochs. 
Bombyx, p., Hiibn. 
Noctua, p., Esp. 
Cossus, p., God. 
Body rather slender. Head and thorax pilose. Proboscis and 
palpi obsolete. Antenne slender, simple, filiform, about as long as 
the breadth of the head, hardly longer in the male than in “the 
female. Abdomen extending rather beyond the hind wings. Legs 
stout, pilose; hind tibie with two very minute apical spurs. Wings 
long and narrow. Fore wings almost straight along the costa, 
somewhat rounded at the tips, extremely oblique along the exterior 
border; second inferior vein about ten times further from the third 
than from the first. Male.—Hind tibie tufted with long hairs. 
Europe. 
A. Ale apice acute. = - - - i : Humuli, Linn. 
B. Ale apice rotundata, antice signaturis subargenteis et fuscis. 
_ A, Vitta subargentea macuiaris ex apice ale versus medium 
marginis interioris, deinde ad basim. | 
a. Fuscus, maculis argenteis. - -  -  Ganna, Hubn. 
B. Subferrugineus aut cinerascens, maculis albidis. 
lupulinus, Linn. 
B. Linee due recte a margine antico versus interiorem in angu- 
lum rectum convergentes. | - -  Sylvinus, Linn. 
C. Signature confuse. 
A. Ciliz inter costas albide. 
