486 CATALOGUE OF 



Xanthia subflava, Eversm. Bull, Soc. Imp. Nat. Mosc. xxxi. 3,219, 



Jl. 

 Dicycla ? subflava, Guen. Noct. ii. 8, 676. 



Lower Volga District. 



Genus 4. COSMIA. 



Corpus sat robustum. Proboscis brevis. Palpi graciles, sub- 

 aseendentes; articulus 3us cylindricus, 2i trientis lon^ior. Abdo- 

 men alas posticas non aut vix superans. Pedes mediocriter validi ; 

 tibiae posticae calcaribus quatuor longis. Alae mediocriter latae; 

 anticae acutae, apud costam perparum convexae, margiue exteriore 

 subobliquo vix undulato. 



Cosmia, Ochs. ; Treit. ; Boisd. ; Steph. ; Guen. Ann. Soc. Ent. 



Fr. vi. 318; Noct. ii. 8. 

 Calymnia et Eustegnia, Hubn. Verz. Schmett. 235, 236. 



Body moderately stout. Proboscis short. Palpi slender, 

 slightly ascending ; third joint cylindrical, more than one-third of 

 the length of the second. Antennas more than half the length of 

 the body. Abdomen not or hardly extending beyond the hind 

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

 Wings moderately broad. Fore wings very slightly convex in front, 

 acute at the tips, slightly oblique and hardly undulating along the 

 exterior border. 



1. Cosmia teapezina. 



Testacea aut lutes cens ; alee anticce lineis duabus transversis pal 

 lidis, gutta apud maculam reniformem punctisque submargi- 

 nalibus nigricantibus ; posticce cinerea?, testaceo marginatce. 



-, Merian, Ins. Eur. pi. 11. Engr. Pap. d'Eur. 546, 



a-g. 

 Phalaena-Noctua trapezina, Linn. Faun. Suec. 1157. Gmel. ed. 



Syst. Nat. i. 5, 2547, 99. 

 Noctua trapezina, Wien. Verz. 88, 13. Fabr. Sp. Ins. ii. 219, 57; 



Mant. Ins. ii. 146, 86; Ent. Syst. iii. 2, 44, 117. Esp. 



Schmett. iv. pi. 87, f. 2, 3. Bork. Schmett. Eur. iv. 642, 271. 



Hubn. Eur. Schmett. Noct. pi. 42, f. 200. Haw. Lep. Brit. 



257. Knock, Ins. ii. pi. 3, f. 1—4. Sulz. Ins. pi. 36, f. 6. 



Scpp, Ins. iii. pi. 46. 



