260 CATALOGUE OF 



Body moderately stout. Proboscis moderately long. Palpi 

 porrect, pilose ; third joint lanceolate, about one third of the length 

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

 Thorax very pilose. Abdomen hardly extending beyond the hind 

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

 Wings moderately broad, not long. Fore wings nearly straight in 

 front, slightly angular at the tips, slightly oblique, and somewhat 

 convex along along the exterior border. Male. — Antennae slightly 

 crenulate. 



Europe. 



1. Cel^na Haworthit. 



Lunula centralis subnigra; alee anticce fusco subrubrce nitidce, vel 

 fusco subnigro et subrubro variatce, vel fusco violacece, vel 

 fusco subnigrce ; maculis duabus ordinariis subferrugineis, vel 

 luteo cinereo-rufulis pallidis, vel fere albidis ; orbiculari ro- 

 tunda ; renlformi intus subinclinata, inferne extrinsecus pro. 

 jecta quadrata, scepe venulis duabus albidis extemis ; maculis 

 externis fusco-nigris sagittatis ; alee posticce cinereo fuscce 

 pallide, nitidce, cinereo-fusco late circumdatce. 



Var. Minor caput et thorax ferruginosa ; aim antica? fasciis apud 

 marginem exteriorem pallidioribus, macula discali interiore 

 majore, exterior e plus elongata, macula postica magis determi- 

 nata. 



Apamea Haworthii, Curt. Brit. Ent. vi. pi. 260. De Graslin, Ann. 



Soc. Ent. Fr. 2me Ser. vi. 58, pi. 1, No. 1, f. 3—6. Herr.- 



Schceff. Schmett. Eur. 467, 1, 68. 

 Apamea tripuncta, Curt. Brit. Ent. vi. 260. 

 Celaena Haworthii, Steph. III. Brit. Ent. Haust. Hi. 16, pi. 23, f. 3. 



Guen. Noct. i. 220, 347. 

 Celaena Hibernica, Steph. III. Brit. Ent. Haust. iii. 17. 

 Celaena lancea, Steph. III. Brit. Ent. Haust. iii. 18. 

 Noctua Morio, Eversm. Bull. Soc. Imp. Nat. Mosc. iii. 550. 

 Noctua erupta, Frey. Beitr. v. 150, pi. 472, f. 1,2. 

 Neuria Haworthii, Herr.-Schceff. Eur. Schnett. ii. 293, 346, pi. 91, 



f. 467, 468. 



a— h England. From Mr. Stephens' collection. 

 /, m. Scotland. From Mr. Foxcroft's collection. 

 n, o. England. 



