LEPIDOPTERA HETEROCEItA. 485 



Body moderately stout. Proboscis moderately long. Palpi 

 stout, pilose, ascending; third joint cylindrical, nearly one-third of 

 the length of the second. Antenna,* simple, much more than halt 

 the length of the body. Abdomen extending somewhat beyond the 

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

 spurs. Wings moderately broad. Fore wings straight in front, 

 somewhat rounded at the tips, hardly convex and slightly oblique 

 along the exterior border. Female.— Abdomen attenuated and 

 tubiform at the tip. 



1. Cleoceris Oo. 

 Citrino-albida, subtus alba ; alee anticce linen transversis fasciisque 

 ocellisque tribus cervinis ; poslicce albidm. 



-, Roes. Ins. i. pi. 63, f. 1—4. Wilk. Pap. 6, pi. I, 



a, 1 1. Engr. Pap. d'Eur. 528, d. 

 Phalama-Bombyx Oo, Linn. Faun. Suec. 1139. Gmel. ed. Syst. 



Nat. i. 5,2438,81. 

 Noctua Oo, Wien. Verz. 87, 1. Fabr. Mant. Ins. ii. 164,194; 



Ent. Syst. iii. 2, 84, 247. Bork. Schmett. iv. 661, 283. Dup. 



Hist. Nat. Lep. Ft. vi. 174, pi. 84, f. 2, 3. Frey. Beit. ii. pi. 



149. 

 Bombyx Oo, Esp. Schmett. iii. pi. 81, f. 2—5. 

 Noctua ferruu'inago, Hubn. Eur. Schmett. Noct. pi. 41, f, 195. 



Haw. Lep. Brit. 225. 

 Ochria Oo, Hubn. Verz. Schmett. 233, 2339. 

 Cymatophora Oo, Treit. Schrntt. v. 84, 4. Steph. III. Brit Ent. 



Haust. iii. 59. ... 



Noctua (Xanthia) Oo, Meig. Handb. 152, 12; Syst. Besch. ill. 157, 



139, pi. 107, f. 1. 

 Cleoceris Oo, Boisd. Ind. Meth 93. 704. 

 Dicycla Oo, Guen. Noct. ii. 7, 675. 

 a—k. England. From Mr. Stephens' collection. 

 / — o. England. 



/), q. Europe. From M. Becker's collection. 

 r. Europe. From Mr. Milne's collection. 

 s. Europe. 



2. Cleoceris? subflava. 

 Alee anticce ochracea, fascia lata baseos, striga media fas claque Ida 

 terminali fuscis ; postUa lutescentes. 



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