LEPIDOPTEEA HETEROCERA. 211 



Body pilose, hardly stout. Proboscis short. Palpi porrect, 

 pilose, extending very little beyond the head ; third joint elongate, 

 conical, about one-fourth of the length of the second. Antennae a 

 little more than half the length of the body. Abdomen extending 

 a very beyond the hind wings. Legs rather stout ; hind tibiae with 

 four long spurs. Wings hardly broad. Fore wings dark, with 

 pale veins and markings, straight in front, hardly angular at the 

 tips, slightly oblique along the exterior border ; first, second and 

 third inferior veins approximate j fourth remote. Male. — An- 

 tenna? slightly pectinated. 



1. Char^as graminis. 



Fusca ; abdomen cinerascens, apice fulvescens ; alee anticce venis, 

 macula annuloque discalibus vittaque diffusa exteriore albidis ; 

 posticat basim versus albicantes, ciliis albidis. 



-, Raii, Ins. 128, 4. Frisch, Ins. 10, pi. 21. Harr. 



Engl. Ins. pi. 5, f. 7. Deg. Ins, ii. 340, 5. Engr. Pap. 



d'Eur. pi. 395, a — d. 

 Phala3na-Bombyx graminis, Linn. Syst. Nat. i. 506, 73 ; Faun. 



Suec. 1140. Act. Holm. 40, pi. 2. Gmel. ed. Syst. Nat. i. 5, 



2440, 73. 

 Bombyx graminis, Fabr. Sp. Ins. ii. 204, 148 ; Mant. Ins. ii. 133, 



208 ; Ent. Syst. iii. 239. Wien. Verz. 82, 3. Esp. Schmett. 



Eur. pi. 68, i. 1. Bork. Eur. Schmett. 171. Haw. Lep. Brit. 



117, 186. Oliv. Enc. Meth. v. 101, 263. Donov. Hist. Nat. 



Brit. Ins. pi. 458. Hubn. Eur. Schmett. Bomb. f. 480, 481. 

 Bombyx tricuspis, Esp. Schmett. Eur. iii. 348, pi. 68, f. 2, 3. 

 Lycophotia graminis, Hubn. Verz. Schmett. 215, 2146. 

 Episema graminis, Treit. Schmett. Eur. i. 120. 

 Xylina graminis, Meig. Syst. Besch. iii. 186, 12, pi, 110, f. 6; 



Handb. 154, 16. 

 Charseas graminis, Sleph. II. Brit. Ent. Haust. ii. 111. Dup.Hist. 



Nat. Lep. Fr. iii. 195, pi. 85. Guen. Noct. i. 176, 276. 

 Heliophobus graminis, Boisd. Ind. Meth. 112, 861 ; Icon. pi. 74. 

 Cerapteryx graminis, Curt. Brit. Ent. x. 451. Steph. Cat. Brit. 



Lep. 62. 

 Cerapteryx hibernica, Curt. Brit. Ent. x. 451. 

 Episema albineura. Boisd. Icon. pi. 74, f. 4. 



a—j. England. From Mr. Stephens' collection. 

 k — n. England. 



o,p. Scotland. From Mr. Foxcroft's collection. 

 q. Europe. From M. Becker's collection. 



