530 CATALOGUE OF 



stout ; hind tibioe with four long spurs. Wings moderately broad, 

 rather long. Fore wings straight iu front, rounded at the tips, 

 slightly convex and rather oblique along the exterior border. 

 Male. — Antennae moderately pectinated. 



1. Valeria oleagina. 



Nigricans ; abdominis latera fulvescentia ; alee antica viridivaria, 

 gnttis costalibus et marginalibus alb is, maculi orbiculari fusca 

 albo marginata, reniformi alba nigro bipunctata ; postica 

 alba, fascia margineque cinereis. 



-, Engr. Pap. d'Eur. 441, a — d 





.: 



it. 



Phala?na-Bombyx oleagina, Gmel. ed. Syst. Nat. i. 5, 2418, 515. 

 Bombyx oleagina, Fair, 21 ant. Ins. ii. 117, 92; Ent. Syst. iii. 1 



440, 101. Oliv. Enc. Meth. v. 63, 136. Bork. Schmett. 350, 



131. Donov. Brit. Ins. xiii. pi. 439. 

 Noctua oleagina, Wien. Verz. 59, 2. Esp. Schmett. iv. pi. 60, f. 4. 



Hubn. Eur. Schmett. Noct. pi. 7, f. 33. Dvp. Hist. Nat 



Lcp. Ft. vi. pi. 95. f. 6. Haw. Lep. Brit. 116. Frey. Beitr 



ii.pl. 134. 

 Miselia oleagina, Treit. Schmett. v. 401, 7. Boisd. Ind. Mith. 12 



981. 

 Valeria oleagina, Steph. III. Brit. Ent. Haust. iii. 23. Herr, 



Schaff. Eur. Schmett. ii. 294, 349. Guen. Noct. ii. 50, 738. 



Bruand, Ann. Soc. Ent. Fr. 2me Sir. vii. 39. 

 Noctua (Miselia) oleagina, Meig. Syst. Besch. iii. 125, 78, pi. 103, 



f. 6. 

 Meganephria oleagina, Hubn. Verz. Schmett. 206, 2071. 



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



d, e. England. 



/. Europe. From M. Becker's collection. 



2. Valeria jaspidea. 



Fusca ; abdomen pallide fuscum, vitta vinerva, fasciis pallidis ; ala 

 antica viriaes, striga postica basali flava, vitta discali fotsca, 

 macularum marginibus lineaque submarginali postice ralde 

 (nh/vlosa albis, gutiis marginalibus nigris, tinea marginali 

 Jhtra, ciliis fuscis festaceo strigatis ; postica albida, gutta 

 (lisculi Jasciistjuc diiabus fuscis, linca marginali flava. 



Noctua jaspidta, Vill. Ent. Lin. ii. 281, 383. 



