358 CATALOGUE OF 



plices, corporis dimidio longiores. Thorax subsquamosus. Abdo- 

 men alas posticas vix superans. Pedes validi ; tibiae posticae calca- 

 ribus quatuor mediocriter longis. Alae anticae sat angustae, apud 

 costam rectae, angulo apicali obtuso, margine exteriore antice recto 

 postice rotundato. 



Hapalia, Hubn. Verz. Schmett. 220. Steph. Cat. Brit. Lep. 102. 

 Actebia, Steph. III. Brit. Ent. Haust. iii. 20. 

 Spaelotis, p., Boisd. Ind. Meth. 107. 

 Agrotis, p., Guen. Noct. i. 296. 



Body stout. Proboscis moderately long. Palpi short, slightly 

 ascending ; third joint conical, very minute, not more than one- 

 sixth of the length of the second. Antennae simple in both sexes, 

 more than half the length of the body. Thorax with broad plumes, 

 somewhat like scales. Abdomen hardly extending beyond the hind 

 wings. Legs stout; hind tibiae with four moderately long spurs. 

 Fore wings rather narrow, straight in front, obtusely angular at the 

 tips, straight along the fore part of the exterior border, which 

 is rounded hindward. 



Europe. 



1. Hapalia Pe^ecox. 



Prasina ; thorax alio varius, vittis duabns guttularibus nigris ; ab- 

 domen testaceum, basi albidum ; alee aniicce albo conspersce, 

 ocellis duobus discalibus lineisque tribus transversis undulatis 

 albis nigro marginatis, fascia submarginali fusca ; posticce 

 subtestacece, fascia marginali fuscescente. 



Roes. Ins. Bel. i. pi. 51, f. 1 — 4. Engr. Pap. 



oVEur. 466, a— c. 

 Phalama-Noctua praecox, Linn. Syst. Nat. i. 517. Gmel. ed. Syst. 



Nat. i. 5,2573, 174. 

 Noctua praecox, Fair. Sp. Ins. ii. 232,118; Mant. Ins. ii. 169, 



230; Ent. Syst. iii. 2, 97, 289. Esp. Schmett. iv. pi. 89, 



f. 4—7. Boric. Eur. Schmett. iv. 430, 172. Donov. Nat. Hist. 



Brit. Ins. vi. pi. 213. 

 Noctua praceps, Wien. Verz. 82, 12. Bork. Eur. Schmett. iv. 433, 



173. Ilubn. Eur. Schmett. Noct. pi. 15, f. 70. Dup. Hist. 



Nat. lep. Fr. vi. pi. 73, f. 2. 

 Hapalia praecox, Ili'ibn. Verz. Schmett. 220, 2204. Steph. Cat. 



Brit. Lep. 102. 



