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or very short. Antennae simple or slightly pectinated in the male. 

 Abdomen extending as far as the hind wings or a little beyond. 

 Legs stout or rather stout ; hind tibiae with four long or rather long 

 spurs. Wings not or rather broad, somewhat long in one species. 



Europe. 



Group 1. 



Corpus vix robustum. Proboscis breviuscula. Palpi oblique 

 ascendentes; articulus 3us minutus, brevis, conicus. Antennas sim- 

 plices, sat validae. Abdomen alas posticas non superans. Pedes 

 validi, pilosi ; tibiae postieae calcaribus quatuor lon.i>is. Alae latius- 

 culae ; anticae apice subrotundatae, margine exteriure subobliquo. 



Moma, p., H'ubn. 

 Diphthera, Herr.-Sckceff. 



Body hardly stout. Proboscis rather short. Palpi obliquely 

 ascending ; third joint minute, conical, not one-fourth of the length 

 of the second. Antennae simple, moderately stout. Abdomen ex- 

 tending as far as the hind wings. Legs stout, pilose ; hind tibiae 

 with four long spurs. Wings rather broad. Fore wings almost 

 straight in front, somewhat rounded at the tips, moderately oblique 

 along the exterior border ; first, second and third inferior veins 

 almost contiguous at the base ; fourth moderately remote. 



1. DlPHTEKA LUDIFICA. 



Alba ; thorax nigro trifasciatus ; abdomen luteum, maculis dorsa- 

 libus et lateralibus apiceque nigris albo-cinctis ; alee an tic ce 

 lineis transversis interruptis angulosis annuloque discali 

 nigris; posticce cinerea, antice albidce, margine interiore 

 lutescente, guttis marginalibus nigris. 



Phalaena-Noctua ludifica, Linn. Syst. Nat. i. 2, 848, 143 ; Faun. 



Suee. 1177. Gmel. ed. Syst. Nat.i. 5, 2562, 143. Turt. Syst, 



Nat. iii. 329. 



, Engr. Pap. a" Eur. pi. 323. 



Noctua ludifica, Wien. Verz. 311, 8. Fabr. Sp. Ins. ii. 235, 126; 



Mant. Ins. ii. 173, 249; Ent. Syst. iii. 2, 103, 309. Naiurf. 



1780, pi. 3, f. A. Esp. Schmeti iv. pi. 120, f. 1, 2. Bork. 



Eur. Schmett. iv. 137, 55. Hubn. Samml. Eur. Schmett. 



Noct. f. 580, 581 ; Larv. Lep. iv. Noct. i. Bomb. C, b, f. 2. 



