LEPIDOPTERA. HETEROCERA. (515 



extending very little beyond the hind wings. Legs moderately 

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

 broad, straight in front, very slightly rounded at the tips, somewhat 

 or very oblique, and more or less denticulated along the exterior 

 border. Male, — Antennae very minutely ciliated. 



1. Auchmis Hyperici. 



Cinerea ; thorax fascia antica tenui angulata nigra ; alee antica 

 ex parte cinereo-fuscce* ocellis duabus vittisque discalibus stri- 

 gisque exterioribus canis nigro marginatis ; posticcc nigro- 

 cinerea, basi pallidiores. 



-, Engr. Pap. d'Eur. 357, a. 



Nnctua Hyperici, Wien. Verz. 7(5, 10. Fabr. Mant. Ins. ii. 167, 

 217 ; Ent. Syst. iii. 2, 91, 272. Bark. Ear. Schmett. iv. 351, 

 146. H'ubn. Eur. Schmett. Noct. pi. 51, f. 250. Dup. Hist. 

 Nat. Lep. Fr. vii. 194, pi. 112, f. 5. Frey. Beitr. ii. pi. 154. 



Phalaeua-Noctua Hypericouis, Gmel. ed. Syst. Nat. i. 5, 2577, 

 1180. 



Xylina Hyperici, Treit. Schmett. v. 67, 27. Meig. Syst. Besch. iii. 

 190, 19, pi. Ill, f. 3. 



Cloantha Hyperici, Boisd. Ind. 151, 1209. Guen. Noct. ii. 113 r 

 829. 



Xylophasia Hyperici, Herr.-Schcejf. Eur. Schmett. ii. 289, 334. 



Auchmis Hyperici, Hubn. Verz. Schmett. 243, 2424. 



a—c. Europe. From M. Becker's collection. 



2. Auchmis perspicillaris. 



Pallide cinerascens ; thoracis vitta dua? abdominisque vitta dor- 

 salis fuscescentes ; ala? antic at plaga discali nigro-fusca ocel- 

 lum elongatum antice acuminatum inciudente, vittis basalibus 

 strigisque lanceolatis marginalibus nigricantibus ; posticus 

 pallide cinerascentes, margine lato fuscescente, vcnis obscu- 

 rioribus. 



-, Engr. Pap. d'Eur. 345, a, d. 



Phalaeua-Noctua perspicillaris, Linn. Syst. Nat. 849, 148 ; Faun*, 



Suec. 1 198. Gmel, ed. Syst. Nat. i. 5, 25(54, 148. 

 Phalaena polyodon, Clerck, Icon. pi. 2, f. 3. 



3 G 2 



