LEPIDOPTERA HETEROCERA. 697 



Body pilose, moderately stout. Proboscis moderately long. 

 Palpi porreet, more or less pilose, extending a little beyond the 

 head ; third joint conical, very minute. Antennae simple, more 

 than half the length of the body. Abdomen extending a little 

 beyond the hind wings. Legs stout ; hind tibiae with four mode- 

 rately long spurs. Fore wings moderately broad, straight in front, 

 rounded at the tips, very slightly oblique along the exterior border. 



Group 1. 



Corpus pilosissimum; Alae nigricantes, cinereo alboque plus 

 minusve varias. 



Body very pilose. Wings blackish, more or less varied with 

 gray or white. 



Inhabitants of the Polar regions, or of the summits of the Alps. 



Europe. 



1. Anarta melanopa. 



Nigro-cinerea ; alee anticce cinerece, annulis duobus discalibus 

 lineisque transversis duplicatis undulosis nigris, ciliis albo 

 intercisis ; posticce nigricantes, ciliis albis. Foem. — Ala pos- 

 ticce lunula discali albida. 



Noctua melanopa, Beck. Thunb. 1791, 42. 



Noctua tristis, Hubn. Eur. Schmett. Noct. f.446. Dup. Hist. Nat. 



Lep.Fr. vii. 297, pi. 118. 

 Noctua rupestris, Hubn. Noct. f. 644 (mas.). 

 Sympistis tristis, Hubn. Verz. Schmett. 202, 2572. 

 Sympistis rupestris, Hiibn. Verz. Schmett. 202, 2573. 

 Anarta vidua, Treit. Schmett. v. 207. 

 Noctua vidua, Frey. Beit. iv. pi. 311, f. 3. 

 Anarta melanopa, Boisd. Ind. Meth. 161, 1296. Guen. Noct. ii. 



190, 950. Herr.-Schceff. Schmett Eur. ii. pi. 84, f. 433, 434. 



Lapland. Swiss Alps. 



a — h, Scotland. From Mr. Stephens' collection. 

 iij. Scotland. From Mr. Stevens' collection. 

 k, I. Scotland. From Mr. Foxcroft's collection. 



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