378 CATALOGUE OF 



-, Engr. Pap. d'Eur. 423, a. 



Noctua polygona, Wien. Verz. M. 16. Fabr. Ent. Syst. iii. 2, 333. 



Hubn. Samml. Eur. Schmett. Noel. f. 125. God. Hist. Nat. 



Lep. Fr. ii. 245, pi. 68. 

 Noctua nigrofulva, Esp. Schmett. iv. pi. 127, f. 7. 

 Noctua pyramis, Bork. Eur. Schmett. iv. 197. 

 Agrotis polygona, Treit. Schmett. Eur. i. 226. Guen. Nod. i. 313, 



522. 

 Metaxya polygona, Hubn. Verz. Schmett. 223, 2241. 

 Opigena polygona, Boisd. Ind. Meth. 103, 764. 



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



Genus 9. EPILECTA. 



Corpus vix robustum. Proboscis mediocriter longa. Palpi 

 porrecti, validi, caput longe superantes ; articulus 3us lanceolatus, 

 2i dimidio vix brevior. Antennae simplices, graciles, corporis 

 dimidio rnulto iongiores. Abdomen alas posticas superans. Pedes 

 validi; tibiae posticae calcaribus quatuor longis. Alae latiusculae, 

 apud costam fere rectae, margine exteriore subdenticulato sub- 

 convexo vix obliquo. 



Epilecta, Hubn. Verz. Schmett. 221. 

 Triphaena, p., Treit. ; Boisd. ; Meig. 

 Hiria, Dup. Cat. 145. Guen. Noct. i. 314. 



Body hardly stout. Proboscis moderately long. Palpi por- 

 rect, stout, extending far beyond the head ; third joint lanceolate, 

 almost half the length of the second. Antennae simple, slender, 

 much more than half the length of the body. Abdomen extending 

 somewhat beyond the hind wings. Legs stout; hind tibiae with 

 four long spurs. Wings somewhat broad. Fore wings almost 

 straight in front, slightly denticulated and convex, and hardly 

 oblique along the exterior border ; first, second and third inferior 

 veins nearly contiguous ; fourth remote. 



Epilecta differs much from the other genera in this family, and 

 seems to connect them with the Catocalida. 



1. Epilecta linogrisea. 



Cinerea; thorax fasciis vittisque duabus nigris, disco cervino ; 

 alee antica ferrugineo albidoque varice, lineis transversis undu- 

 latis annulisque duobus nigris y fascia tenui submarginali cer- 

 vina ; posticae lutea, nigro marginal. 



