LETIDOPTERA HETEROCERA. \SS 



Body rather stout. Palpi ascending, recurved, slender, squa- 

 mous. Antennae short, furnished in the male with little tufts 

 of cilia?, of which two on each joint are longer than the others. 

 Abdomen not extending beyond the hind wings. Legs long ; fore 

 pair not tufted. Wings entire, stout, rounded, squamous; fringe 

 broad. Fore wings obtuse at the tips ; exterior border hardly 

 oblique ; all the lines and spots distinct ; areolet rhomboidal. 



1. Epizeuxis calvarialis. 



Nigro-cinerea ; alee anticce lineis undatis albidis, orbiculari et 

 reniformi fulvis. 



Noctua calvaria, Wien. Verz. 72, 7. Fabr. Ent. Syst. iii. 2, 117. 



353. Esp. Schm. iii. pi. 178, f. 2, 3. 

 Pyralis prothyralis, DeVill. Linn. Ent. 823, pi. 6, f. 27. 

 Pyralis calvarialis, Hiibn. PyraL f. 23. Treit. Schm. 41. 

 Epizeuxis calvarialis, Hiibn. Verz. Schm. 346, 3312. 

 Henninia calvarialis, Dup. Lep. 37, pi. 212, f. 1. Frey. Beitr. pi. 



12, f. 1. 

 Helia calvarialis, Herr.-Schceff. Eur. Schm. vi. 430, 741. Guen, 



Delt. et PyraL 77, 99. 



Europe. 



North America. 



A. Ala? violaceo non tincta?. 



A. Ala? albo non varise. 



a. Ala? anticce maculis nullis costalibus nigris. phaealis, Guen. 



b. Alae anticae maculis costalibus nigris. - lituralis, Hiibn. 



B. Ala? albo varise. - - - americalis, Guen. 



B. Ala? violaceo tinctae. - aemulalis, Hiibn. 



2. Epizeuxis pplealis. 



Saturate fumoso-cinerea ; palpi longissimi ; articulus 3us longus, 

 acutuS) 2o non brevior : alee anticce nitentes, lineis tribus 

 transversis parallelis vagis nebulosis undatis denticulatis sor- 

 dide Jiavescente-albis, reniformi sat magna intersecta ; postica? 

 pallidiores, lineis duabus vagis saturatioribus. 



Helia phaealis, Guen. Delt. et Pyral. 76, 96. 



North America. 



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