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CATALOGUE OF 



minute, fusiform. Abdomen extending as far as the hind wings. 

 Legs slender; hind tibiae with four long spurs. Wings moderately 

 broad. Fore wings convex in front, rounded at the tips, oblique 

 along the exterior border ; interior angle obtuse, well-defined ; dis- 

 cal areolet intersected by a secondary vein; second inferior vein 

 much further from the third than from the first; third much further 

 from the fourth than from the second. 



1. NOLECA BASIGUTTA. 



Fcem. Cervina, subtus testacea ; alee anticce gutta basali lunu- 

 lisque marginalibus nigris, strigis tribus anticis macularibus 

 obliquis nigro-fuscis, intermedia antice albo postice fusco 

 marginata. 



Female, Fawn-colour, more testaceous beneath. Fore wings 

 with a black dot at the base ; exterior border with a row of black 

 lunules, which increase in size from the tip of the wing to the inte- 

 rior angle ; three somewhat macular oblique blackish brown streaks 

 in front of the disk ; middle one with a whitish space in front and 

 a brownish space behind. Length of the body 5 lines ; of the wings 

 14 lines. 

 a. > •? Presented by W. F. Evans, Esq. 



Genus 62. EPISEMA. 



Corpus robustum. Proboscis capitis latitudine non longior. 

 Palpi sat longi, porrecti, pilosi, caput superautes ; articulus 3us 

 linearis, 2i dimidio longior. Antennas thorace multo longiores, 

 Abdomen alas posticas paullo superans. Pedes validi, pilosi ; tibiae 

 posticae calcaribus minutis apicalibus. Alae sat longae, vix latae ; 

 anticae apud costam fere rectae, apice rotundatae, margine exteriore 

 integro perobliquo. 



Episema, Ochs. Schmett. von Fur. iv. 65 ; Treitsckke ; Steph. 



Graphiphora, p., H'ubn. 



Bombyx, p., Linn. ; Fabr. ; Gmel. ; Oliv. ; H'ubn. ; Haw. ; God. 



Disphragis, p., Hubn. Verz. Schmett. 194. 



Noctua, p., God. 



Diloba, Boisd. Gen. et Ind. Meth. 88 ; Duponch. 



Body stout. Proboscis distinct, not longer than the breadth of 

 the head. Palpi moderately long, porrect, pilose, extending beyond 

 the head ; third joint linear, more than half the length of the 

 second. Antennae much longer than the thorax. Abdomen ex- 

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



