1282 CATALOGUE OF 



long spurs. Win^s black and white, alike in colour and with like 

 markings. Fore wings entire, slightly acute. Hind win^s with the 

 exterior border hardly dentate. Female, — Abdomen keeled, de- 

 pressed in the middle, slightly incrassated at the tip. 



Europe. 



Group 1. 



1. MELAN[PPE hastata. 



Nigra; abdomen nigro-cinereum, segmentis nigro biquttatis alho 

 marginatis ; alee albce, basi inter lineatte, fasciis duabus ex- 

 cavatis interruptis margineque exteriore nigris, fimbria nigro 

 notata. 



-, Deg. Ins. i. pi. 8, f. 19, 20; ii. 455. Kleem, Ins. 



i. 369, pi. 44, t'. 1—8. De Tilt. Ent. Linn. ii. 346, 530. 

 Phalaena-Geometra hastata, Linn. Syst. Nat. i. 2, 870, 254 ; Faun. 



Suec. 1276. Clerck, Icon. pi. 1, f. 9. Gmel. ed. Syst. Nat. i. 



5, 2477, 254. 

 Pbalama hastata, Fabr. Sp. Ins. ii. 260, 106; Mant. Ins. ii. 203, 



157; Ent. Syst. iii. 2, 182, 192. 

 Geometra hastata, Wren. Verz. 113, 25. Schr. Faun. Boic. ii. 2, 



46, 1679. III. N. Amy. dess. i. 461, 25. Fuessl. Schw. Ins. 



40, 785. Mull. ZooL Dan. Prodr. 127, 1470. Bork. Eur. 



Schm. v. 426, 210. Donov. Brit. Ins. iv. 43, pi. 129. Hubn. 



Geom. pi. 49, f. 256. Haw. Lep. Brit. 336. 

 Cidaria hastata, Treit. Schm. vi. 2, 207, 36. 

 Eulype hastata, Hubn. Verz. Schm. 328, 3169. 

 Melanippe hastata, Dup. Lep. v. 282, pi. 190, f. 3. Boisd. Ind. 



216, 1781. Steph. III. Brit. Haust. iii. 248, 1. Guen. Phal. 



ii. 389, 1522. 

 Larentia hastata, Herr.-Sch. Eur. Schm. iii. 156, 124. Delah. Schm. 



259. 



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



t — w. England. 



x. Scotland. From Mr. Foxcroft's collection. 



y, z. Europe. From M. Becker's collection. 



aa, bb. Lapland. Presented by J. R. Crowe, Esq. 



2. Melanippe Thuleakia. 



Nigricans; ala. linea undulata et strigis duplicibus albidis 

 infumatis. 



