﻿1120 CATALOGUE OF 



third joint as long,as the second, slightly spatuliform. Antennae 

 slender, simple, slightly pubescent, a little more than half the length 

 of the bodv. Thora*x short, villose-hirsute. Abdomen linear, 

 extending for one-third of its length beyond the hind wings. Legs 

 rather short; hind legs not longer than the others; spurs unequal. 

 Wiujgs rather narrow. Fore wings hardly convex in front, rectan- 

 gular at the tips, moderately oblique along the hind part of the ex- 

 terior border. 



This genus resembles some of the Notodontidce^ and like some 

 others may be removed from the Ht/pogrammidce, but does not well 

 agree with the characters of any other family of Noctuites. 



1. Prometopus inassueta. 



Mas. Alba, flavescente et nigra varia ; abdomen supra nigrum, 

 subtus album ; alee anticce lineis transversis denticulatis, ma- 

 culis cuneatis maculisque rnarginalibus nigris, reniformi alba 

 apud discum nigricante, ciliis albis nigro notatis; fosticce 

 nigricante, 



Prometopus inassueta, Guen, Noct, i. 38, 42. 



Australia. 



Note. — The name Csenipeta abscondens, page 1094, must 

 be cancelled, the specimen described being a variety of Hypo- 

 gramma sublucida, page 1097. 



Tribe 5. LIMBAT^. 



Statura magna aut mediocris. Antennae nunquam pectinatae. 

 Pedes longi, rarissime pilosi. Alae validae, squamosae, bene deter- 

 minatae ; anticaE lineis flexuosis ; posticge discolores, bicolores; vena 

 la inferior saepissime sequentibus aequalis, non remota. 



Quadrifidae Limbatae, Guen. Noct, iii. 39. 



Size large or moderate. Antennae never pectinated. Legs 

 long, very seldom densely pilose. Wings stout, squamose, well- 

 developed. Fore wings with fiexuous lines. Hind wings with two 

 distinct colours, different from the fore wings in hue ; lirst inferior 

 vein very generally equal to the others, not remote. 



