410 CATALOGUE OF 



are white ; orbicular oval, very small ; reniform consisting of a 

 contorted line ; costa whitish. Hind wings pale testaceotis, with 

 broad brown borders. Length of the body 5 lines; of the wings 12 

 lines. 



a. Tasmania. Presented by Morton Allport, Esq. 



'ahdi, 



Genus 13. SEGETIA. 



Corpus robustum. Proboscis mediocriter longa. Palpi vali 

 pilosi, porrecti, caput vix superantes ; articulus 2us 3o quadruple 

 longior. Antennae corporis dimidio valde longiores. Abdomen 

 alas posticas vix superans. Pedes validi ; tibia? posticae calcaribus 

 quatuor longis. Ala? mediocriter latae ; anticae apud costam rectae, 

 apice subrotundatae, margine exteriore vix obliquo. Mas. — An- 

 tennae crenulalae, subciliatae. 



Segetia, Steph. III. Brit. Ent. Haust. ii. 153. 

 Sideridis, p., H'ubn. Verz. Schmett. 232. 

 Noctua, p., Treit. ; Dup. ; Boisd. ; Guen. 



Body stout. Proboscis moderately long. Palpi stout, pilose, 

 porrect, not prominent ; third joint less than one-fourth of the 

 length of the second. Antennae very much more than half the 

 length of the body. Abdomen hardly extending beyond the hind 

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

 broad. Fore wings straight in front, somewhat rounded at the tips, 

 hardly oblique along the exterior border. Male. — Antennae crenu- 

 late, minutely ciliated. 



1. Segetia xanthographa. 



Cervina ; abdomen cinerascens ; alee anticce lineis transversis gut- 

 tularibus indistinctis, orbiculari et reniformi testaceo margina- 

 tis non bene determinatis ; postica? albidae cinereo marginata 

 (mas) aut cinerece (fcem.) 



Var. Alee anticce maculis totis testaceis, 



Noctua xanthographa, Wien. Verz. 83, 20. H'ubn. Eur. Schmett. 



138. Treit. Schmett. Eur. v. 196. Dup. Hist. Nat. Up. Fr. 



iii. 107, pi. 80, f. 2. Frey. Neu. Beit. Schmett. iii. pi. 250. 



Boisd. Ind. Meth. 101,753. Guen. Ann. Soc. Ent. Fr. vi. 



239 ; Noct. i. 337, 567. 

 Segetia xanthographa, Steph. III. Brit- Ent. Haust. ii. 153. 

 Westw. Sf H. Brit. Moths, i. 143, pi. 29, f. 9. 



