

LEPIDOPTEBA HETEROCERA. 285 



joint not more than one-fourth of the length of the second. An- 

 tennae simple, rather stout, very little more than half the length of 

 the body. Abdomen extending very little beyond the hind wings. 

 Legs stout ; hind tibia? with four long spurs. Wings moderately 

 broad. Fore wings straight in front, rectangular or somewhat 

 rounded at the tips, slightly convex and very slightly oblique along 

 the exterior border ; inferior veins much as usual. 



Group 1. 

 Acosmetice affinis. Corpus gracile. Alae lata?, nitentes. 

 Allied to Acosmetia. Body slender. Wings broad, shining. 



1. Caradrina uliginosa. 



Cinerea ; alee, anticce stigmate reniformi parvo, orbiculari puncti- 

 formi nigerrimo, strigis ambabus, umbra media, linea undu- 

 lata subrecta testacea utrinque fusco terminata. 



Caradrina uliginosa, Guen. Noct. i. 243, 387. 



Hydrilla uliginosa, Boisd. Ind. Meth. 138, 1115. Herr.-Schaff. 

 Eur. Schmett. ii. 213, 102 ; ii. Noct. pi. 58, f. 293, 294. 



South Switzerland. 



2. Caradrina lenta. 



Murina ; alee anticce liners transversis angulosis fasciisque duabus 

 dijfusis guttisque costalibus nigricantibus, linea transversa sub- 

 marginali pallide murina ; posticce pallide murince, macula 

 discali margineque obscurioribus. 



Caradrina lenta, Treit. Schmett. Eur. ii. 257. GuSn. Ann. Soc. 



Ent. Fr. vi. 236; Noct. i. 243, 388. Boisd. Ind. Meth. 137, 



1103. Dup. Hist. Nat. Lep. Fr. Suppl. iii. 305, pi. 28. 



Eversm. Faun. Volg- Ural. 262. Herr.-Schceff. Eur. Schmett. 



ii. 211,94. 

 Noctua lenta, Frey. Beit. Ges. Eur. Schm. pi. 47. Geyer, Samml. 



Eur. Schm. f. 825. 



a — c. Europe. From M. Becker's collection. 



