﻿LEPIDOPTERA HETEEOCEBA. 1455 



Wings, lanceolate in ilie male, elongate-conical in the female. Legs 

 slender, rather long, hardly pilose; hind tibiee with long spurs. 

 Wings rather broad, with long cilise. Fore wings straight along 

 the costa, rounded at the tips, convex, hardly denticulated, and 

 moderately oblique along the exterior border. 



1. Ceeocala scapulosa. 



Nigricans ; subtus album ; thorax antics testaceo fasciatum ; ab- 

 domen canescens; alee anticce glaucescente varice^ fasciis tribus 

 subtestaceis nigra ex parte marginatis unaque exteriore 

 glaucescente^ fascia \a ocellum includente, 2a 3aque postice 

 connexis ; posticce testacece, fascia margineque fuscis ciliis 

 canes centibus, 



Noctua scapulosa, Hiibn, Earop. Schmett. Noct. pi. 77, f. 360 



(mas); pi. 121, f. 561 (foem.). Preist, Schmett, von Eur.\\\. 



317, 17. Daponch, Hist. Nat, Lep, Fr. vn. 1,353, 522, pi. 



121, 5 (mas), 6 (foem.). 

 Callistege scapulosa, Hdbn. Verz. Schmett, 281, 2756. 

 Ophiusa scapulosa, Ochs. Schmett. von Ear, iv. 94. Treit, Schmett, 



V. 317, 17. Dap, Lep. Fr. vii. 353, pi. 121, f. b—^, 

 Cerocala scapulosa, Boisd, Gen, et Ind, Meth. 171, 1372. Meig. 



Syst, Besch. iii. 211, 1, pi. 114, f. 2. Dup. Cat. Meth. Lep, 



d^Ear, 183. Lucas^ Ann. Soc. Ent. Fr 2me Ser. viii. 103, pi. 



2, No. 2, f. 3. Guen, Noct. iii. 287, 1733. 



a, b, Europe. From M. Becker's collection. 



2. Cerocala vermiculosa. 



Cinerea, subtus albida ; alee anticce nigro conspersce^fasciis duabus 

 nigra marginatis antice connexis maculasque duas inclu- 

 dentibus, venis lineaque submarginali angulata, margine 

 cinereo ; posticce fuscce^ fasciis duabus {exteriore interrupta) 

 albidis. 



Catocala vermiculosa, Herr.-Schceff, Lep, Exot. Ser. i. f. 134, 135. 



a. South Africa. Presented by Dr. A. Smith. 



Genus 5. DRASTERIA. 



Corpus gracile. Proboscis brevis. Palpi breves, suberecti ; 

 arliculus 2us pilosus ; 3us longi-conicus, 2i triente brevior. An- 



6 k2 



