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Body slender. Front flat. Ocelli distinct. Proboscis long, 

 stout. Labial and maxillary palpi squamous, not villose, very dis- 

 tinct and very isolated. Second and third joints of the labial palpi 

 securiform, the latter much smaller than the former. Maxillary 

 palpi securiform, Autennse short, cylindrical, downy, not setose. 

 Abdomen conical, acuminated. Legs of moderate length, not 

 villose ; fore femora squamous. Wings shining, alike in colour and 

 with like markings. Fore wings with the exterior border sub- 

 quadrate. 



1. Heliothela atralis. 



Fusca ; alee fimbria apicem versus alba, macula subtits marginali 

 alba, 

 Pyralis atralis, Hubn. Pi/ral. pi. 5, f. 27. 

 Perilypa atralis, Hubn. Verz. Schm. 372, 3571. 

 Hercyna atralis, Treil. Schm. vii. 11, 206. Evcrsm. Faun. Volg.- 



Ural. 47t>. Herr.-SchiBff. Eur. Schm. iv. 1(3, 23. 

 Threnodes atralis, Dup. Lrp. 252, pi. 220, f. 6. 

 Heliothela atralis, Guen. Dt It, el Pi/rul. 102, oi). 

 Tortrix Hellwigiana ? Fabr. Ent. Syst. iii. 2, 146. 

 Pyralis uudulalis, Schr. Faun. Bote. 1722. 



France. Austria. Hungary. Livonia. South Russia. 



Genus 4. HERCYNA. 



Corpus robustum, villosum. Frons angusta. Ocelli magni. 

 Proboscis brevissima. Palpi porrecti, valde hirsuti. Palpi max- 

 illares vix conspicui. Antenna? ralida?, thoraee vix breviores. 

 Pedes robusti, villosi, calcaribus longis. Ala? nigricantes, sericea?, 

 rotundatoe, lineis diffuses indistinctis. Mas. — Abdomen subde- 

 pressum ; fasciculus apicalis quadraius. Fiem. — Abdomen tumidum, 

 apice acutum, oviductu producto. 



Hercyna, Treit. Schm. vii. 179. Dup. Herr.-Selnvff. Guen. Delt. 



et PyraL lo3. 

 Metaxmeste, p. Hubn. Verz. Schm. 352. 



Body stout, villose. Front narrow. Ocelli large. Proboscis 

 very short. Palpi porrect, hirsute with long hairs to their tips. 

 Maxillary palpi rudimentary. Antenna? stout, nearly as long as the 

 body. Abdomen not or hardly extending beyond the hind wings. 

 Legs stout; femora and tibia) villose ; spurs long. Wings blackish, 





