294 CATALOGUE OF 



Body stout, thickly clothed. Front villose. Palpi porrect, 

 approximate, stout, pilose, slightly decumbent, shorter than the 

 thorax ; third joint lanceolate, not more than half the length of the 

 second. Maxillary palpi hidden by the hairs of the labial palpi. 

 Thorax broad. Abdomen with lateral tufts, extending beyond the 

 hind wings. Legs stout, villose ; spurs very long. Wings stout, 

 squamous, entire, moderately broad. Fore wings slightly rounded 

 at the tips, convex and moderately oblique along the exterior bor- 

 der. Male. — Antennas slightly pectinated ; their seta) tufted at the 

 tips. Abdomen furnished at the tip with two diverging lateral 

 tufts. 



1. EURRHYPIS PERTUSALIS. 



Fcem. Nigra; alee fascia media lata subfusiformi angulosa albo- 

 hyalina ; antica linea interior e alba. 



Eurrhypis pertusalis (Pyralis vulgaris, Palpita nobilis), Geyer, 

 Zuir. SammL Exot. Schmett. 36, 382, f. 763,764. 



Pyralis pertusalis, Herr.-S chaff. Eur. Schm. iv. 127, pi. 6, f. 

 35—37. Guen. Belt, et Pyral. 144, 53. 



Greece. Turkey. Asia Minor. 



a. Europe. From Dr. Frivaldsky's collection. 



Sub-tribe 3. LURID.E. 



A. Statura parva. Alae subtus lituris bene determinatis. 



A. Aspectus noctuiformis. Abdomen pilosum. Alae coloribus 



caliginosis et nebulosis. Fam. 1. Hercynidje, Duponch. 



B. Aspectus pyraliformis. Abdomen glabrum, acutum. Alae 



coloribus laetis, concisis. Fam. 2. Ennychim;, Duponch. 



B. Statura varia. Alee subtus lituris null is aut inconspicuis. 



A. Statura parva. Palpi quatuor conspicui. 



a. Larva terrestris. 



a. Palpi non rostriformes. - Fam. 3. Asopidje, Guen. 



b. Palpi rostriformes. - Fam. 4. Steniad^e, Guen. 



b. Larva aquatica. Proboscis brevis. 



Fam. 5. Hydrocampidje, Guen. 



B. Statura ssepissime mediocris aut magna. Palpi varii. Pro- 



boscis bene determinate. 

 a. Alas lineis nullis aut inconspicuis. 



