406 CATALOGUE OF 



Genus 12. OCHROPLEURA. 



Corpus robustum. Proboscis mediocriter longa. Palpi validi, 

 ascendentes; articulus 3us brevissiraus, conicus. Antennae corporis 

 diuiidio valde longiores. Abdomen alas posticas trieute superans. 

 Pedes validi ; tibiae posticas calcaribus quatuor lougis. Ala3 medio- 

 criter lata? ; anticae apud costam rectal pallida?, apice subrotundatae, 

 margine exteriore subconvexo perparum obliquo. Mas. — Antennae 

 subciliata?. 



Ochropleura, H'ubn. Verz. Schmett. 223. 

 Ogygia, p., H'ubn. Verz. Schmett. 

 Megasema, p., Hiibn. Verz. Schmett. 

 Noctua, p., Treit. ; Guen. Nod. i. 328. 

 Chersotis, p., Boisd. 

 Graphiphora, p., Steph. 



Body stout. Proboscis moderately long, Palpi stout, ascend- 

 ing above the vertex ; third joint minute, conical, not one-fourth of 

 the length of the second. Antennae much more or very much more 

 than half the length of the body. Abdomen extending hardly or as 

 much as one-third of its length beyond the hind wings. Legs 

 stout ; hind tibiae with four long spurs. Wings moderately broad. 

 Fore wings pale and straight in front, somewhat rounded at the 

 tips, slightly convex, and very slightly oblique along the exterior 

 border. Male, — Antennae minutely ciliated. 



1. Ochropleura plecta. 



Rubra ; caput, thoracis fascia costaque pallide testacea ; thorax 

 linea transversa antica nigra ; abdomen testaceum ; alee 

 anticce vitta discali punctisque marginalibns nigris. ocellis 

 duobus discalibus cinereis albo cinctis, lineis duabus transver- 

 sis nigrieantibuS) fascia exteriore testacea ; posticce albida, 

 ciliis testaceis. 



-, Engr. Pap. d'Eur. 419, a— f. 



Phalaena-Noctua plecta, Linn. Syst. Nat. 2851, 157; Faun. Suec. 



1216. Gmel. ed. Syst. Nat. i. 5, 2542. 

 Noctua plecta, Wien. Verz. 77, 6. Fabr. Sp. Ins. ii. 224, 8 ; 



Mant. Ins. ii. 154, 139; Ent. Syst. iii. 1, 65, 182. Kleem, 



Beit. Ins. Gesch. i. pi. 23. Esp. Schmett. iv. pi. 143, f. 4, 5. 



Bork, Eur. Schmett. iv. 478, 190. Sepp, Ins. iv. pi. 28. 



