﻿1214 CATALOGUE OF 



Female. Pale cinereous, sprinkled with brown. Third -joint of 

 the palpi much longer than in the typical species of Catoeala. 

 Jfhorax with a brown baud in front. Abdomen rosy, pale at the 

 ^base. Fore wings partly clouded with brown; transverse lines 

 black, denticulated, irregular and incomplete ; reniform spot ferrugi- 

 nous in the disk ; a posterior contiguous very irregular black ringlet ; 

 submarginal line zigzag, whitish ; submarginal dots black. Hind 

 wings very bright rose-colour •, band very much curved, narrow in 

 the middle, dilated at each end, not near extending to the interior 

 margin ; border moderately broad, interrupted towards the interior 

 angle, including an elongated apical rosy spot, and a row of hind- 

 ward rosy dots. Length of the body 13 lines; of the wings 46 

 lines. 



a. ? Presented by Major-General Hardwicke. 



68. Catocala.^ Lucretia. 



Catocalis genuinis dissimilis ; palporum articulus Sus longior 

 obtusior subclavatus ; fronte alba, fascia nigra ; alee subtus 

 JlavcB, macula centrali apiceque fuscis ; anticce albo-cinerece, 

 undulis maculaque marginis interioris fuscis ; poslicce nigrcB^ 

 fascia fiava, 



Noctua Lucretia, Dalm, Anal, JEnt, 52, 30. 



Genus 3. BLENINA. 



Corpus robustum. Proboscis mediocris. Palpi ascendentes, 

 longiusculi ; articulus 3us 2o vix brevior. Antennse simplices, cor- 

 poris dimidio vix longiores. Abdomen alas posticas perpaullo 

 superans, basi cristatum. Pedes validi, sat longi ; tibiae posticee 

 calcaribus longissimis. Alee breviusctilap, non latse ; anticae apud 

 costam subrectae, apice subrotundatae, margine exteriore subangulato 

 postice obliquo. 



Body stout. Proboscis moderately long. Palpi ascending, 

 rather long ; third joint almost as long as the second. Antennas 

 simple, about half the length of the body. Abdomen extending 

 very little beyond the hind wings, crested at the base. Legs stout, 

 moderately long; hind tibiae with very long spurs. Wings rather 

 short, not broad. Fore wings nearly straight in front, somewhat 

 rounded at the tips, moderately oblique along the hinder part of the 

 exterior border, which is somewhat angular in the middle. 



