LEPIDOPTERA HETEROCERA. 419 



1. HVSSIA CAVERNOSA. 



Subviolacea; alee anticce linea undulata basim versus flavida ma- 

 culis nigris, maculis tribus discalibus nigris, margine inte- 

 riore fiavido . 



Noctua cavernosa, Eversm. Bull. Soc. Imp. Nat. Mosc. 1842, 3 ; 



Faun. Volg-Ural.256. 

 Orthosia ornata, Friv. ; Herr.-Schceff. Schmett. Eur. ii. Noct. pi. 



10, f. 46, 47. 

 Hyssia cavernosa, Guen. Noct. i. 345, 578. 

 Orthosia cavernosa, Herr.-Schceff. Eur. Schmett. ii. 205, 79. 



Casan. Ural District. 



Genus 6. SEMIOPHORA. 



Corpus robustum, pilosura. Proboscis mediocriter longa. 

 Palpi porrecti, caput sat superantes ; articulus 2us 3o longi-conico 

 triplo longior. Antennae corporis dimidio longiores. Abdomen 

 alas posticas vix superans. Pedes validi ; tibiae posticae calcaribus 

 breviusculis. Alae mediocriter latae ; anticae apud costam recta?, 

 apice angulatse, margine exteriore mediocriter obliquo. Mas. — An- 

 tennae subpectinatae. 



Episema, p., H'ubn. Verz. Schmett. 224, 



Orthosia, p., Boisd. Herr.-Schceff. 



Semiophora, Steph. III. Brit. Ent. Haust. ii. 138. Westw. 



Taeniocampa, p., Guen. 



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

 rect, extending somewhat beyond the head ; third joint elongate- 

 conical, about one-third of the length of the second. Antennae 

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

 beyond the hind wings. Legs stout ; hind tibiae with four rather 

 short spurs. Wings moderately broad. Fore wings with a black 

 discal mark, straight in front, angular at the tips, moderately ob- 

 lique along the exterior border. Male. — Antennae slightly pecti- 

 nated. 



1. Semiophora gothica. 



Cinereo-ferruginea ; alee anticce guttis basalibus et costalibus ma- 

 culisque duabus subquadralis discalibus nigris cano ex parte 

 marginatis, macula antica excisa, lineis transversis canescenti- 

 bus ; postica? cinerece, ciliis pallidioribus. 



, Deg. Ins. ii. 338, pi. 5. Engr. Pap. d,Eur. 422, 



a— c. 



