774 CATALOGUE OF 



the Lairs. Maxillary palpi slender, very distinct. Abdomen whitish, 

 not extending- beyond the hind wings; hind borders of the segments 

 white. Wings ample, shining. Fore wings acute, yellowish 

 white; costa ochraceous towards the base ; underside clouded with 

 brownish in the disk, with the discal marks and an incomplete exte- 

 rior line of a darker brown. Hind wings white, slightly yellowish 

 beneath along the costa. Length of the body lines; of the wings 

 15 lines. 



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Genus 14. SCOPULA. 



Corpus gracile. Palpi porrecti, rostriformes, squamoso-hirsuti. 

 Palpi maxillares breves, erecti, subpenicillati. Antenna? glabrae, 

 submoniliformes. Abdomen attenuatum. Pedes graciles, glabri, 

 longiusculi. Alas non aut vix latae; anticae subacute. Mas. — 

 Abdomen subeonicum, apice fasciculatum. Fcem. — Abdomen 

 carinatum, cylindrico-conicum. 



Scopula, Schr. Faun. Boic. ii. 162; Treit. ; Guen. Delt. et Pyral. 

 Loxostege, p., Uresiphita, p., Mesographe, p., Hapalia, p., Epi- 



corsia, p., Homochroa, p., et Ocbia, p., Hubn. Verz. Schm. 



352, 353, 354, 355, 358, 362. 

 Botys, p., Scopula et Udea, Dup. 

 Margaritia, p., Steph. 

 Botys, p., Herr.-Sch. 



Body slender. Proboscis short, distinct. Palpi porrect, ros- 

 triform, squamous-hirsute, a little longer or shorter than the breadth 

 of the head. Maxillary palpi short, distinct, erect, forming a little 

 slightly curved pencil. Antennae moderately long, slightly monili- 

 form, quite bare. Abdomen atttenuated, subcorneal and tufted at 

 the tip in the male, cylindric-conical and keeled in the female. 

 Legs slender, bare, rather long ; spurs long. Win^s hardly or not 

 broad. Fore wings slightly acute; exterior border slightly or mo- 

 derately oblique. 



Europe. 



A. Ala? anticae albo maculatae. - olivalis, Wien. Verz. 



B. Alae anticae albo non maculatae. 

 A. Ala) anticae margine obscuriore. 



a. Alas non pallidae. 



