﻿LEPIDOPTERA HETEROCERA. 1523 



second. AntennaB slender, minutely pubescent, full half the lenjj^th 

 of the body. Abdomen extending rather beyond the hind wings. 

 Legs ratber slender ; hind tibiae with four very long spurs. Wings 

 broad; exterior border slightly angular in the middle. Fore wings 

 straigbt in front ; almost rectangular at the tips, moderately oblique 

 along; the hinder half of the exterior border. 



Europe. 



1. Zethes insularis. 



Nigro-rufescens ; alee margine externa late fusco-cinerascente ; 

 anticce lineis transversis duabus nigris, exteriore Jiexuosa 

 litura albida marginata ; alee subtus fusco-rufce, lineis duabus 

 transversis lunulaque albo pupillata, marginibus externis in 

 angulum medium productis, 



Zethes insularis, Ramb. Ann, Soc. Ent. Fr, ii. 29, pi. 2, f. 1. 



Dup. Suppl. iii. 553, pi. 47. Guen. Nod, iii. 330, 1794. 

 Noctua Nattyi, Frei/. Beitr. iii. 43, pi. 222, f. 2. 



Corsica. Hungary. 



South America. 



2. Zethes quatiens. 



Mas. SubtestaceO'cinerea^ nigra conspersa^ caput et thorax anticus 

 subcervina, hie fusca marginatus ; alee linea exteriare pallide 

 testacea recta tenui obliquaintus nigra marginata^ linea media 

 nigricante diffusa apud costam /areata, punctis submargi- 

 nalibus nigris, linea marginali pallide testacea ; anticce linea 

 interiare testacea extus ferruginea, antice serpentina, linea 

 submarginali indistincta incampleta, arbiculari alba nigra 

 Diarginata, reniformi e punctis nigris; pasticce guttis duabus 

 discalibus nigris, annulo testacea guttam unam includente. 



Male. Cinereous, with a sligbt testaceous tinge, very minutely 

 speckled with black. Head and fore part of tbe thorax more fawn- 

 colour, the latter bordered with brown. Wings with the exterior 

 line straigbt, slender, oblique, pale testaceous, bordered with black 

 on the inner side ; middle line blackish, diffuse, somewhat undu- 

 lating in the fore win^s, wbpre it traverses the reniform mark, and is 

 forked towards the costa ; submarginal points black ; a pale tes- 

 taceous marginal line. Fore wings with the interior line testaceous, 

 ferruginous exteriorly, deeply serpentine in front; submarginal line 



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