LEPIDOPTEEA HETEROCERA. 119 



1. CiENOBIA DESPECTA. 



Testacea aut pallide cervina. ; alee anticce lineis duabus transversts 

 e punctis nigricantibus ; posticoe albida, testaeeo marginatce. 



Noctua despecta, Hubn. Eur. Schmett. Noct. pi. 160, f. 751, 752. 



Nonagria despecta, Treit. Schmett. Eur. ii. 311. Gey. Samml. Eur. 

 Schmett. 751, 752. Dup. Hist. Nat. Lep. Fr. Suppl. iii. 355, 

 pi. 32. Boisd. Ind. Meth. 134, 1078. Guen. Ann. Soc. EnU 

 Fr. vi. 237; Noct. i. 102, 155. Herr.-Schceff. Eur. Schmett. 

 ii. 245, 188 ; ii. Nact. pi. 71, f. 365. 



Phytometra rufa ? Haw. Lep. Brit. 16. 



Acosmetia lineola, Steph. II. Brit. Haust. iii. 123, 4. 



Acosmetia rufa, Steph. 111. Brit. Haust. iii. 123, 3. 



Caenobia rufa, Steph. Cat. Brit. Lep. 121. 



a— k. England. From Mr. Stephens* collection. 

 /, m. England. 



Genus 9. CAKVANCA. 



Corpus gracile. Proboscis brevis. Palpi graciles, as- 

 cendentes; articulus 3us minimus. Antennae simplices, sat validae, 

 corporis dimidio longiores. Abdomen alas posticas vix superans. 

 Pedes graciles ; tibiae posticae calcaribus quatuor longis. Alae late 

 ciliatae; anticas angustae, apud costam subconvexae, apice rotun- 

 datae, margine exteriore vix obliquo. 



Body slender. Proboscis short. Palpi slender, ascending ; 

 third joint very minute. Antennae simple, rather stout, more than 

 half the length of the body. Abdomen hardly extending beyond 

 the hind wings. Legs slender ; hind tibiee with four long spurs. 

 Wings with broad ciliae. Fore wings narrow, slightly convex in 

 front, rounded at the tips, hardly oblique along the exterior border ; 

 first, second and third inferior veins contiguous ; fourth rather 

 remote. Resembles some of the Pyralites. 



1. Carvanca trisecta. 



Testacea ; abdomen albidum ; alee anticce substrigatce^ nigro sub- 

 conspersce, vitta discali tripartita guttisque marginalibus 

 nigris ; posticce albido cinerece, ciliis albis. 



Testaceous. Abdomen whitish. Fore wings minutely speckled 

 with black, with very slight and indistinct darker streaks, with a 

 slender black discal stripe, which is twice interrupted, and with 



