LEPIDOPTERA HETEROCERA. 543 



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

 pilose, obliquely ascending ; third joint elongate-conical, about one- 

 fourth of the length of the second. Antennae rather more than half 

 the length of the body. Abdomen extending a little beyond the 

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

 moderately broad. Fore wings straight in front, rounded at the 

 tips, denticulated and moderately oblique along the exterior border. 

 Male. — Antennae very minutely ciliated. 



Europe. 



1. EUPLEXIA LUCIPARA. 



Rubro-ferruginea ; abdomen fuseescens ; alee anticce fasciis variis 

 incompletis atris, macula reniformi alba, fascia exteriore cer- 

 vina ; posticce fuscce, basi albidce, lineis duabus angulosis 

 nigro'fuscis albido ex parte marginatis, 



-, Engr. Pap. dUEur. 491, a — d. Sepp, Ins. iv. 



pi. 19. 



Phalaena-Noctua lucipara, Linn. Faun. Suec. 1201 ; Syst. Nat. 



857, 187. Gmel. ed. Syst. Nat. i. 5, 2576, 187. 

 Noctua lucipara, Wien. Verz. 84, 3. Fabr. Sp. Ins. ii. 233, 121 ; 



Mant. Ins. ii. 170, 235 ; Ent. Syst. iii. 2, 294. Esp. Sehm. 



iv. pi. 154, f. 1 — 4. Bork. Eur. Schmett. iv. 373, 153. Haw. 



Lep. Brit. 138. Donov. Brit. Ins. vi. pi. 230. Hubn. Eur. 



Schmett. Noct. pi. 11, f. 55. Dap. Hist. Nat. Lep. Fr. vi. pi. 



94, f. 5. Knock, Beit. ii. pi. 1, f. 4—7. Frey. Beit. i. pi. 82. 

 Phlogophora lucipara, Treits. Schmett. v. 377, 4. Boisd. Ind. Meth. 



121, 903. Herr.-Schceff. Eur. Schmett. ii. 277, 295. 

 Trigonophora lucipara, Hubn. Verz. Schmett. 217, 2164. 

 Noctua (Phlogophora) lucipara, Meig. Handb. 161, 35; Syst. Besch. 



iii. 119, 66, pi. 101, f. 1. 

 Euplexia lucipara, Steph. III. Brit. Ent. Haust. iii. 1. Guen. 



Noct. ii. 68, 758. 



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

 y, /. England. From Mr. Stevens collection. 

 m — p. England. 



q. Scotland. From Mr. Foxcroft's collection. 

 r, s. Europe. From M. Becker's collection. 

 t, v. Germany. 



u — aa. Trenton Falls, New York. Presented by E. Doubleday, 

 Esq. 



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