788 CATALOGUE OF 



Wings narrow. Fore wings straight along the costa, rounded at the 

 tips, oblique along the exterior border ; interior angle rounded ; 

 first and second inferior veins approximate ; third further from the 

 fourth than from the second. 



1. OxiCESTA GEOGRAPHIA. 



Mas. Cervina ; alee anticce venis fasciisque duabus angulosis, 

 fimbria fusca interstitiis albis ; posticce fimbria alba. 



Oxicesta geographica, Hubn. Verz. Schmett. (Phalcena Sphingoides 



Dimorphce Noctuceformes) 144, 1530. 

 Oxicesta sericina, Hubn. Verz. Schmett. (Phalcena Sphingoides 



Dimorphce Noctuceformes) 144, 1529. 



a — c. Europe. From M. Becker's collection. 



Genus 3. PENTHOPHERA. 



Palpi parvi, porrecti, biarticulati ; articulus 2 us maximus, 

 ovatus, subacutus. Proboscis obsoleta. Antennae maris late bipecti- 

 natae fcemince simplices. Alae subdiaphanae, squamis minutis sparsis 

 instructs, maris rotundatae, fcemince parvae lunulatae. Pedes gra- 

 ciles ; tibiae anticae intus spina armatae, posteriores apice calcaratae. 



Penthophera, Germar ; Bombyc. i. 



Phalaena Bombyx, p., Linn. 



Bombyx, p., Fabr. ; Esp.; Hubn.; DeVill.; Petagna ; Godart. 



1. Penthophera morio. 



Mas. Fusco-nigra tinctura fiavedinis ; cilice venceque saturatiores ; 

 abdomen subtus tarsique argenteo micantia. Foem. — Anus 

 albido lanosus ; alee parvce. 



Phalaena Bombyx morio? Linn. Syst. Nat. ii. 828. Gmel. ed. 



Syst. Nat. i. 5, 2432, 66. 

 Bombyx morio, Fabr. Ent. Syst. iii. 1, 445, 116. Wien. Verz. 50, 



C, 1. Borkh. Schmett. iii. 266, 93. Esp. Schmett. iii. pi. 43, 



f. 6, 7. Hubn. Bomb. Ramb. pi. 16, f. 57 ; pi. 54, f. 231, 232. 



Larv. Lep. iii. Bomb. ii. Verce, B, a, b, f. 1. God. Pap. de 



France. 

 Penthophera morio, Herr.-Schceff. Samml. Eur. Schmett. Suppl. ii. 



Text, 133, 10, 1. Speyer, Ent. Zeit. Stett. xiii. 319, 18. 

 Liparis morio, Hubn. Verz. Schmett. (Phalcence Verce Hypogymnice 



Subsquammatce) 158, 1644. Ochs. Schmett. iii. 187, 1 ; iv. 



55, 1. 



