1004 CATALOGUE OF 



which is wanting or very slender and like a streak, and from both 

 by the cinereous middle blotch in each fore wing. 



Lapland. 



Genus 10. OCHKOSTIGMA. 



Corpus sat robustum. Proboscis non conspicua. Palpi breves, 

 valde pilosi, caput non superantes ; articulus 3us conicus, minimus. 

 Antennae thorace multo longiores. Abdomen alas posticas paullo 

 superans. Pedes validi, pilosi ; tibiae posticas calcaribus quatuor 

 longiusculis. Alae sat latae ; anticae apud costam subrectae, apice vix 

 angulatae, margine exteriore subobliquo, margine interiore apud 

 medium fasciculato. Mas. — Antennae mediocriter pectinatae. Fcem. 

 — Antennae simplices, graciles. 



Ochrostigma, Hiibn. Verz. Schmett. 146. 



Bombyx, p., Scriba ; Knock ; Esp. ; Hiibn. ; God. 



Notodonta, p., Ochs. 



Drynobia, Duponch. ; Herr.-Sckceff. 



Body moderately stout. Proboscis not visible. Palpi short, 

 very pilose, not extending beyond the head; third joint conical, 

 very small. Antennae much longer than the thorax. Abdomen ex- 

 tending for one-fourth of its length beyond the hind wings. Legs 

 stout, pilose; hind tibiae with four rather long spurs. Wings 

 moderately broad. Fore wings nearly straight along the costa, 

 hardly angular at the tips, slightly oblique along the exterior bor- 

 der; interior angle rounded ; interior border tufted in the middle ; 

 discal areolet distinctly intersected ; three inferior veins ; second 

 about thrice further from the third than from the first. Male. — 

 Antennae moderately pectinated to the tips. Female. — Antennae 

 simple, slender. 



1. Ochrostigma velitaris.* 



Alarum anticarum area media fusco-cinerea ; apex versus margi- 

 nem anteriorem late albidus, versus limbum fuscus. 



Drynobia velitaris, Herr.-Schceff. SammL Eur. Schmett. SuppL ii. 



Text, 125,30, 1. 

 Bombyx velitaris, Knock, Beitr. i. 66, pi. 4, f. 8. JEsp. Schmett. iii. 



292, pi. 58, f. 6. Borhk. Eur. Schm. iii. 393, 146; Rhein. 



Mag. i. 377, 243. Brahm, Ins. Kal. 290, 180. Schwarz, 



Raup, 670. God. Lep. de France, iv. 209, pi. 20, f. 2. Rossi, 



Faun. Etrusc. Mant. ii. 18, 371. 

 Ochrostigma Austera, Hiibn. Verz. Sckmett. {Phalcence Sphingoides 



Ptilodontes), 146, 1544. 



