218 CATALOGUE OF 



Calamia, p., Hubn. Verz. Schmett. 240. 

 Xylina, p., Treit. 



Milhymna, p., Meig. ; Herr.-Schceff. 

 Luperina, p., Boisd. ; Dup. ; Guen. 



Colour green and white. Body stout. Proboscis moderately long. 

 Palpi stout, pilose, slightly ascending; third joint conical, about one- 

 fourth of the length of the second. Antennae simple, slender, more 

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

 one-third of its length beyond the hind wings. Legs stout; hind 

 tibiae with four hardly long spurs. Wings moderately broad* Fore 

 wings straight in front, somewhat rounded at the tips, moderately 

 oblique along the exterior border. 



1. Calamia vikens. 



Alba ; caput thoraxque supra viridia ; alee anticce supra virides, 

 margins tenui maculisque duabus discalibus nonnunquam 06- 

 soletis albis. 



-, Engr. Pap. d^Eur. 495, a — c. 



Phalaena-Noctua virens, Gmel. ed. Syst. Nat. i. 5, 2561, 139. 

 Noctua virens, Wien. Verz. 85, B. 8. Fabr. Mant. Ins. ii. 173, 



248; Ent. Syst. iii. 2, 103, 307. Knock, Beit. Ins. ii. pi. 1, f. 



1. Esp. Schmett. iv. pi. 122, f. 1. Bork. Eur. Schmett. iv. 



703, 310. Hubn. Samml. Eur. Schmett. NocL pi. 48, f. 235. 

 Noctua (Mythimna) virens, Meig. Handb. 169, 53 ; Syst. Besch. iii. 



154, 132, pi. 101, f. 12. 

 Xylina virens, Treit. Schmett. v. 2, 276, 16. Dup. Hist. Nat. Lep. 



Fr. vii. pi. 104, f. 6. 

 Luperina virens, Boisd. Ind. Meth. 114, 877. Guen. Noct. i. 184, 



286. 

 Calamia virens, Hubn. Verz. Schmett. 240, 2378. 

 Mythimna virens, Herr.-Schceff. Eur. Schmett. ii. 193, 36. 



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



Genus 4. CKYMODES. 



Corpus robustum. Proboscis mediocriter longa. Palpi por- 

 recti, validi, pilosissimi ; articulus 2us 3o quadruplo longior. An- 

 tennae simplices, corporis dimidio longiores. Abdomen alas posticas 

 triente superans. Pedes validi ; tibiae posticae calcaribus quatuor 

 longis. Alae mediocriter latae ; anticae apud costam vix convexae, 



