LEPIDOPTERA HETEROCERA. 213 



Body stout. Proboscis moderately long*. Palpi porrect, 

 pilose, extending a little beyond the head ; third joint elongate- 

 conical, more than one-third of the length of the second. Antennae 

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

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

 moderately long spurs. Wings moderately broad. Fore wings 

 straight in front, rounded at the tips, denticulated and moderately 

 oblique along the exterior border; second inferior vein about 

 equally distant from the first and from the third ; fourth moderately 

 remote from the third. Male. — Antennae very minutely serrated. 



1. PACHETEA LEUCOPHiEA. 



Canescens ; thorax fusco fasciatus ; alee ciliis albis fusco notatis ; 

 anticce fusco varice, annulis duobus discalibus albis, litura 

 posteriore, lineis duabus undulatis transversis strigisque exte- 

 rioribus nigris ; posticce pallide cinerascentes, 



-, Engr. Pap. oVEur. 245. Roes. Ins. iii. pi. 68, f. 5. 



Noctua leucophaea, Wien. Verz. 82, 5. Hubn. Samml. Eur. 



Schmett. Noct. pi. 27, f. 80, 817. Bork. Eur. Schmett. iv. 408, 



164, Frey. Neu. Beit. Schmett. iv. pi. 382; Ent. Zeit. Stett. 



ii. 94. 

 Bombyx fulminea, Fabr. Sp. Ins. ii. 205, 149 ; Mant. Ins. ii. 133, 



210; Ent.Syst. iii. 1, 484, 241. Oliv. Enc. Meth. v. 101, 



265. 

 Phalaena-Bombyx fulminea, Gmel. ed. Syst. Nat. i. 5, 2440, 577. 

 Bombyx vestigialis, Esp. Schmett. iii. pi. 53, f. 4, 8. 

 Bombyx ravida, Esp. Schmett. iv. pi. 145, f. 1. 

 Noctua Hadena leucophaea, Meig. Handb. 160, 32 ; Syst. Besch. iii. 



106, 43, pi. 100, f. 1. 

 Hadena leucophaea, Treit. Schmett. Eur. v. 319, 6. 

 Heliophobus leucophaea, Steph. III. Brit. Haust. ii. 190, pi. 24. 

 Pachetra leucophaea, Dup. Hist. Nat. hep. Fr. iii. 282, pi. 90. 



Guen. Noct. i. 177, 277. Steph. Cat. Brit. Lep. 97. 

 Luperina leucophaea, Boisd. Ind. Meth. 113, 865. 

 Mamestra leucophaea, Hubn. Verz. Schmett. 214, 2138. 

 Polia leucophaea, Herr.-Schceff. Eur. Schmett. ii. 252, 208. 



a. England. From Mr. Stephens' collection. 



b. England. 



c. d. Europe. From M. Becker's collection. 

 e. Odessa. Presented by Dr. Dowler. 

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