188 CATALOGUE OF 



rotundatae, margine exteriore rnediocriter obliquo ; postica? tenues, 

 opalinae, semihyalinae. 



Caradrina, p., Treit.; Boisd.; Dup. 

 Laphygma, Guen. Noct. i. 156. 

 Trigonophora, Geyer. 



Body hardly stout. Proboscis rather short. Palpi stout, short, 

 ascending; third joint very minute. Antennae simple, slender, 

 about half the length of the body. Abdomen hardly extending 

 beyond the hind wings. Legs moderately stout ; hind tibiae with 

 four long spurs. Fore wings rather narrow, straight in front, 

 rounded at the tips, moderately oblque along the exterior border ; 

 second inferior vein nearer to the first than to the third; fourth mo- 

 derately remote. Hind wings delicate, pearly, semihyaline. 



Europe. 



1. Laphygma exigua. 



Cinerascens ; alee anticce lineis transversis undulatis subobsoletis 

 pallidioribus et obscurioribus, annulis discalibus orbiculato et 

 reniformi testaceis; poslicce albce, opalines, semihyalinee. 



Noctua exigua, Hubn. Samml. Eur. Schmett. Noct. f. 362. 



Telmia exigua, Hubn. Verz. Schmett. 228, 2286. 



Caradrina exigua, Treit. Schmett. Eur. ii. 254 ; Suppl. x. 81. Dup. 

 Hist. Nat. Lep. Fr. iii. 45, pi. 75. Boisd. Ind. Meth. 138, 

 1112. Guen. Ann. Soc. Ent. Fr. vi. 236. Herr.-Schecff. Eur. 

 Schmett. ii. 212, 99; ii. Noct. pi. 66, f. 44. 



Laphygma exigua, Noct. i. 158, 252. 



South France. Italy. Dalmatia. 



a — d. Europe. From M. Becker's collection. 



2. Laphygma pygmaea. 

 Alee fusco-subcinereee, macula subcentrali rufa. 



Caradrina pygmaea, Ramb. Ann. Soc. Ent. Fr. iii. 384, pi. 8, f. 2. 



Dup. Hist. Nat. Lep. Fr. Suppl. iii. 321, pi. 29. Boisd. Ind. 



Meth. 138, 1113. Guen. Ann. Soc. Ent. Fr. vi. 236. 

 Laphygma pygmaea, Guen. Noct. i. 158, 253. 

 Laphygma exigua, var. P 



Marseilles. 



