LEPIDOPTERA HETEROCERA. 1081 



stout, pilose ; hind tibiae with minute apical spurs. Wings mode- 

 rately long, hardly broad. Fore wings almost straight along the 

 costa, rounded at the tips, very oblique along the exterior border; 

 discal areolet intersected by a secondary vein ; second inferior vein 

 a little further from the third than from the first ; third more than 

 four times further from the fourth than from the second. Male. — 

 Antennae rather deeply pectinated. Female. — Antennae serrated. 



Europe. 



1. EPISEMA CAERULEOCEPHALA. 



Alee anticce cinereo cance, stigmatibus albidis coadunatis inter 

 strigas duas fuscas, fasciaque marginali cinerea ; posticce 

 albidce, angulo anali nigro strigato. 



Episema caeruleocephala, Ochs. Schmett. von Eur. iv. 65. Treit. 



Schmett. v. 112, 1. Steph. III. Brit. Ent. Haust. ii. 14, 1. 



Duponch. Pap. de France, vi. 3, pi. 85, f. 1. Meig. Handb. 



183, 15; Syst. Beschr. Eur. Schmett. in. 69, 1, pi. 89, f. 8. 



Zett. Ins. Lapp. 934, 1. 

 Bombyx caeruleocephala, Linn. Syst. Nat. ii. 826 ; Faun. Suee. 



117. Gmel. ed. Syst. Nat. i. 5, 2429, 59. Fabr. Sp. Ins. ii. 



185, 72 ; Mant. Ins. ii. 117, 93; Ent. Syst. iii. 1, 440, 102. 



Wien. Verz. 59, M. 3. Borkh. Schmett. iii. 352, 132. Esp. 



Schmett. iii. pi. 58, f. 1—4. Hubn. Bomb. pi. 45, f. 196. 



Larv. Lep. iii. Bomb. ii. Verce, T, a, b, fig. 2. Berk. Syn. i. 



132. Don. Nat. Hist. Brit. Ins. iii. 75, pi. 100. Stew. El. 



Nat. Hist. ii. 153. Turt. Syst. Nat. iii. 208. 

 , Goed. Ins. i. 61. List. Goed. (Angl.) 155, f. 47. 



(Lat.) 121, f. 47. Ray, Ins. 163, 17. Albin, Ins. pi. 13, f. 17. 



Reaum. Ins. 1, pi. 18, f. 6—9. Frisch. Ins. 10, pi.. 3, f. 4. 



Merian, Ins. Eur. pi. 9. 

 , Phalaena caeruleocephala, Wilkes, 6, pi. 12. 

 ! Bombyx caeruleocephalus, Haw. Lep. Brit. 105. 

 Disphragis caeruleocephala, Hubn. Verz. Schmett. 1194, 1989. 

 Noctua caeruleocephala, God. Lep. de France^ vi. 187, pi. 85, f. 1. 

 Diloba caeruleocephala, Boisd. Gen. et Ind. Meth. 88, 687. 



, a — h. England. From Mr. Stephens' collection. 



i — k. Erjgland. 



I. Europe. From M. Becker's collection, 

 i m. ? Presented by the Entomological Club. 



