LEPIDOPTERA HETEROCERA. 673 



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

 spurs. Fore wings moderately broad, straight along the costa, 

 rounded at the tips; exterior border moderately oblique, slightly 

 convex in the middle. 



1. Chariclea Delphinii. 



Testacea ; abdomen lateribus purpurascentibus nigra guttatis ; alee 

 anticce saturate purpurea, fasciis undulatis pallidioribus et 

 nigricantibus, ciliis testaceis ; posticce albidce, margine lato 

 nigricante. 



-, Merian, Ins. Eur. i. pi. 40. Roes. Ins. i. pi. 12. 



Wilk. Pap. iii. pi. 1, a, 4. Geoffr. Ins. Par. ii. 164, 109. 



Engr. Pap. a" Eur. 538, a — g. 

 Noctua Delphinii, Wien. Verz. 87, 8. Fabr. Sp. Ins. 231, 111 ; 



Mant. Ins. ii. 167, 214 ; Ent. Syst. iii. 2, 90, 267. Esp. 



Schmett. iv. pi. 175, f. 1—4. Bork. Eur. Schmett. \v. 652, 



279. Hubn. Eur. Schmett. Noct. pi. 42, f. 204 ; pi. 137, f. 



622. Dup. Hist. Nat. Lep. Fr. vii. pi. 110, f. 1. Donov. 



Brit. Ins. x. pi. 331. Haw. Lep. Brit. 261. 

 Phalaena-Noctua Delphinii, Gmel. ed. Syst. Nat. i. 5, 2576, 188. 

 Xylina Delphinii, Treit. Schmett. v. 82, 34. 

 Heliothisa Delphinii, Meig. Handb. 177, 76; Syst. Besch. iii. 232, 



18, pi. 120, f. 18. 

 Chariclea Delphinii, Steph, III. Brit. Ent. Haust. iii. 92. Curt. 



Brit. Ent. pi. 76. Boisd. Ind. Meth. 152, 1225. Guen. Noct. 



ii. 168,914. 

 Periphanea Delphinii, Hubn. Verz. Schmett. 247, 2456. 



a, b. England. From Mr. Stephens' collection. 



c. England. 



d. Paris. Presented by Dr. Boisduval. 



e — h. Europe. From M. Becker's collection. 

 i. Europe. 



Asia. 

 2. Chariclea Prazanofezkyi. 



Straminea ; thorax fascia subcervina ; abdomen testaceo-albidum ; 

 alee anticce fasciis duabus obliquis roseis, interiore diffusa, 

 exteriore subduplicata ; posticce subcinerece, ciliis basique 

 albidis. 



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