616 CATALOGUE OF 



Noctua perspicillaris, Wien. Verz. 76, 11. Fabr. Mant. Ins. ii. 



167,218; Ent. Syst. iii. 2, 92, 273. Esp. Schmett. iv. pi. 



134, f. 3. Brahm, Ins. 152. Bork. Eur. Schmett. iv. 336, 



139. Hubn. Eur. Schmett. Noct. pi. 51, f. 249. Dup. Hist. 



Nat. Lep. Fr. vii. 149, pi. 110, f. 2. Frey. Alt. Beitr. pi. 5, 



20 ; Ent. Zeit. Stett. ii. 108. 

 Actinotia perspicillaris, Hubn. Verz. Schmett. 244, 2431. 

 XyliDa perspicillaris, Treit. Schmett. v. 60, 28. Meig. Handb. 174, 



68 ; Syst. Besch. iii. 190, 18, pi. 11 1, f. 1. 

 Cloantha perspicillaris, Boisd. Ind. Meth. 151, 1210. Guen. Noct. 



ii. 113, 830. Herr.-Schaff. Eur. Schmett. ii. 301, 367. 



Europe. 



a. England. From Mr. Stephens' collection. 



North America. 



3. AUCHMIS RAMOSULA. 



Cinerea ; palpi breves ; alee anticce cameo subtinctce, lituris radia- 

 tis nigro-fuscis, reniformis dimidio postico nebula nigricante 

 tecto, orbiculari annulari elongata indistincta, linea arcuata e 

 denticulis aut punctis nigris ; posticce cinerece, basi pallidiores, 

 lunula venisque obscuris, subtus albce lunula margineque car- 

 neo-cinereis. 



Cloantha ramosula, Guen. Noct. ii. 114, 831. 



North America. 



Australia. 



4. AUCHMIS COMPOSITA. 



Var. Cana ; thorax fusco fasciatus et vittatus ; alee anticas vitta 

 informi interrupta extus divisa, margine interiore lineaque 

 exteriore angulosa fuscis, linea basali, venis exterioribus gut- 

 tisque marginalibus nigris, lituraque discali alba ; posticce 

 fuscescente-cinerece, ciliis albis. 



Cloantha composita, Guen. Noct. ii. 114, 832. 



Hoary. Thorax with brown bands and stripes. Fore wings 

 brown along the interior border, with a brown irregular discal stripe, 

 which is interrupted and divided exteriorly, with a black basal line 

 with black exterior veins, with marginal black dots, with a white 

 discal figure, and with an exterior zigzag transverse brown line 

 disk beneath brown. Hind wings brownish cinereous, with white 

 ciliae. Length of the body 6 lines ; of the wings 14 lines. 



