1050 CATALOGUE OF 



Body moderately stout. Proboscis nearly as long as the 

 breadth of the head. Palpi short, porrect, pilose, not extending so 

 far as the head ; third joint very minute. Antennae much longer 

 than the thorax. Abdomen extending for one-fourth or one-third of 

 its length beyond the hind wings. Legs stout, pilose ; hind tibiae 

 with four long spurs. Wings moderately long and broad. Fore 

 wings straight in front, rounded at the tips, oblique and very 

 slightly denticulated along the exterior border ; interior angle much 

 rounded; interior border entire; discal areolet intersected by a 

 secondary vein ; three inferior veins; first and second nearly con- 

 tiguous ; third remote. Hind wings entire along the exterior 

 border. Male. — Antennae slightly pectinated. Female. — Antennae 

 simple. 



Europe. 



A. Macula pallida media obsoleta, verticalis, apicalis, areolam 3am 



vix intrans. Bucephalus, Linn. 



B. Macula pallida media magna longitudinalis ovalis, apicalis, 



areolam 3am fere totam occupans. - Bucephaloides, H'uhn. 



C. Alse anticae vitta costali nivea, strigis antelimbalibus obliquis 



nigris. ----- albicosta, Herr.-Schceff. 



1. Phaleea Bucephala. 



Alee argenteo-cinerece, strigis duabus geminatis ferrugineis, macu- 

 laque magna terminali Jlava. 



PygEera bucephala, Ochs. Schmett. von Bur. iii. 235, 6 ; iv. 57, 6. 



Steph. III. Brit. Ent. Haust. iii. 11, 1. Duponch. Suppl. Lep. 



France, iiL 131, pi. 11, f. 4 ; iv. pi. 15, f. 1. Zett. Ins. Lapp. 



924, 2. 

 Bombyx bucephala, Linn. Syst. Nat. ii. 816; Faun. Suec. 1115. 



Gmel. ed. Syst. Nat. i. 5, 2417, 31. Berk. Syn. i. 134. Don. 



Nat. Hist. Brit. Ins. i. pi. 3. Stew. El. Nat. Hist. 149. 



Turt. Syst. Nat. iii. 208. Fair. Sp. Ins. ii. 184, 70; Mant. 



Ins. ii. 117, 90 ; Ent. Syst. iii. 1, 439, 99. Wren. Verz. 59, 



M. Borkh. Schmett. iii. 346, 130. Esp. Schmett. vii. pi. 22, 



f. ]_4. Eubn. Bomb. pi. 45, f. 194, 195. Law. Lep. iii. 



Bomb. ii. Vera, T,a. b, f. 1. Illig. N. Ausg. dess. i. 122, 1. 



Schceff. Icon. 44, pi. 31, f. 10, 1. Nomencl Panz. Wilkes, 



Nat. Hist. Ins. pi. 43. Esp. iii. 1 1 1, pi. 22, f. 1—4 ; 393, pi. 



79, f. 1. Scop. Ent. Cam. 208, 515. Borkh. Eur. Schmett. 



iii. 346, 130. Bhein. Mag. i. 370, 229. Mull. Faun. Fridr. 



40, 361 . Zool. Dan. 1 18, 1357. Fuessl. Schw. Ins. 34, 649 ; 



