LEPIDOPTEEA HETEEOCERA. 65 



Leucania, p., Boisd. ; Meig. 

 Symira, p., H'ubn. Verz. Schmett. 

 Asema, Sodoff, Bull. Soc. Imp. Mosc. xiv. 

 Symira, Herr.-Schaff. Eur. Schmett. ii. 178. 



Body stout. Proboscis not visible. Palpi short, pilose. An- 

 tennas slender. Abdomen extending more or less heyond the hind 

 wings. Legs hardly stout ; hind tibiae with four rather long spurs. 

 Wings rather narrow or of moderate breadth. Fore wings hardly 

 convex in front, acuminated at the tips, rather oblique along the 

 exterior border ; first, second and third inferior veins almost con- 

 tiguous at the base ; fourtb remote. Male. — Antennae slightly pec- 

 tinated. Female. — Antennas simple. 



Group 1. 



Palpi caput paullo superantes. Abdomen alas posticas dimidio 

 superans. Alae sat angustae ; antica? apud costam perobliquse. 



Palpi extending a little beyond the head. Abdomen extending 

 for half its length beyond the hind wings. Wings rather narrow. 

 Fore wings very oblique along the exterior border. 



1. SlMYEA DENTINOSA. 



Cinerea; alee albidce, anticce areolis fuseo strigatis. 



Noctua dentinosa, Frey. Neu. Beit. Schmett. iii. 97, pi. 263. 

 Simyra dentinosa, Dup. Hist. Nat. Lep. Fr. Suppl. iii. 426, pi. 37. 



Guen. Ann. Soc. Ent. Fr. vi. ; Noct. i. 61, 82. Eversm. Faun. 



Volgo Ural. 263. Boisd. Ind. Meth. 136, 1090. 

 Symira tendinosa, Friv. ; Herr.-Schceff. Eur. Schmett. ii. 179, 8, pi. 



76, 77, f. 393, 394. 



Turkey, Ural district. Oremburg, Sarepta. 

 a, b. Europe? From M. Becker's collection. 



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