LEPTDOPTERA HETEROCERA. 199 



Polia picta, Boisd. Voy. de V Astrolabe, Pt. 1. Lep. 24 i. Guen. 



Voy. de la Coquille, ii. 285, pi. 19, f. 7. (Noctua picta.) 

 Calogramma picta, Guen. Noct. i. 166, 263. 



New Holland. 



a, b. New South Wales. From Mr. Wood's collection. 



c. Ceylon. Presented by E. Templeton, Esq. 



d. ? From Mr. Milne's collection. 



e. ? 



Genus 12. NEURIA. 



Corpus robustum. Proboscis mediocriter longa. Palpi validi, 

 pilosi, subascendentes ; articulus 3us cylindricus, 2i quadrante bre- 

 vior. Antennae corporis dimidio multo longiores. Abdomen alas 

 posticas triente superans. Pedes validi; tibiae posticae calcaribus 

 quatuor longis. Alae mediocriter lata, anticae apud costam sub- 

 rectae, apice angulatae, margine exteriore subobliquo vix convexo. 

 Mas. — Antennae subcrenulatae. 



Hadena, p., Treit. ; Meig. ; Steph. III. Brit. Ent. Haust. 

 Neuria, Guen. Ind. 241 ; Noct. i. 166. Dup.; Steph. Cat. Brit. 

 Lep. 



Body stout. Proboscis moderately long. Palpi stout, pilose, 

 slightly ascending; third joint cylindrical, not one-fourth of the 

 length of the second. Antennas much more than half the length of 

 the body. Abdomen extending for about one-third of its length 

 beyond the hind wings. Legs stout; hind tibiae with four long 

 spurs. Wings moderately broad. Fore wings almost straight in 

 front, angular at the tips, slightly oblique and hardly convex along 

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

 at the base ; fourth remote. Male. — Antennae minutely crenulated. 



1. Neuria Saponari^:. 



Fuscescens ; thorax lineis transversis albidis ; abdomen cinereo- 

 albidum ; alee anticce fuscce, venis ex maxima parte, annulis 

 duobus oblongis transversis discalibus (exteriore apud medium 

 coarctato) lineisque transversis undulatis sordide albidis nigri- 

 cante marginatis, annulis discalibus , strigis lanceolatis exterio- 

 ribus guttisque marginalibus nigris ; posticce cinereo-albidce, 

 fusco late marginatce. 



Engr. Pap. d'Eur. 462, a— c. Deg. Ins. ii. 233, 



pi. 7, f. 27. 



