﻿1456 CATALOGUE OF 



tennae corporis dimidio breviores. Abdomen alas posticas non 

 superans. Pedes graciles, longiusculi, fere nudi; tibiae poslicae 

 calcaribus longissimis. Alae amplae, ciliis latis ; anticae apice 

 rotundatae, margine exteriore oblique perparum convexo. Mas,— 

 Antennae crenulatag. Abdomen sublineare ; fasciculus apicalis 

 longiusculus. Fcem, — Abdomen longi-conicum. 



Drasteria, p., H'uhn. Verz. Schmett. 280. 

 Zale? Huhn. Verz. Schmett. 274:, 

 Drasteria, Guen. Noct. iii. 288. 



Body slender. Proboscis short. Palpi short, nearly vertical ; 

 second joint pilose; third elongate-conical, not one-third of the 

 length of the second. Antennae more than half the length of the 

 body, crenulate in the male. Abdomen not extending beyond the 

 hind wings, nearly linear, and with a rather long apical tuft in the 

 male, elongate-conical in the female. Legs slender, rather long, 

 almost bare ; hind tibiae with very long spurs. Winas ample, with 

 broad cilias. Fore wings vvnth a straight costa, rounded at the tips ; 

 exterior border moderately oblique, very slightly convex. 



1. Drasteeia convalescens. 



Palliclissime testaceo-cinerea (mas) aut rufescente fusca (foem.) ; 

 antenna maris serrata ; alee anticce conspersce, lineis angustis 

 Jiexuosis subparallelis nigricantihus non bene determinatis^ 

 linea suhmarginali punctulari^ reniformi indistincta ; posticce 

 maris rufescente-albcp^ foem. rufescente-cinerece. 



Drasteria convalescens, Guen. Noct. iii. 289, 1734. 



North America. 



2. Drasteria Erechtea. 



Cinerea., subtus cervina aut testacea ; abdomen pallidum ; alee 

 anticce fasciis duabus diffusis^ lineis transversis angulosis 

 margineque exteriore ferrttgineis, litura cosUtli subapicali 

 nigra ; posticce fuscce^ fasciis duabus cinereis aut testaceis 

 fasciam fuscam aut nigro-fuscam includentibus, 



Phalaena-Noctua Erechtea, Cram. Pap. Exot. iii. 149, pi. 275, 



f. E. 

 Drasteria Erechtea, Hiibn, Verz, Schmett. 281, 2753. Guen, Noct, 



iii. 289, 1735. 

 Phytometra crassiuscula, Haiv. Lep, Brit. 259. 

 Ophiusa? crassiuscula, Steph. Haust, iii. 126. 



