776 CATALOGUE OF 



2. Metoponia vespertina. 



Pallide straminea ; aim anticce fascia margineque flavescentibus, 

 puncto discali fusco ; posticce fascia diffusa margineque sub- 

 cervinis. 



Pyralis vespertalis, Hubn. Eur. Schmett. Pyral. f. 159. 

 Evergestis vespertalis, Hubn. Verz. Schmett. 354, 3383. 

 Anthophila vespertina, Treit. Schmett. v. 280. Boisd. Meth. 174, 



1388. Dup. SuppL iv. 235, pi. 70. Herr.-Schccff. Schmett. 



Eur. ii. pi. 51, f. 260. 

 Metoponia? vespertina, Guen. Noct. ii. 208, 973. 



Dalmatia. Spain. 



Genus 3. EUGEAPHIA. 



Corpus robusturn. Proboscis brevis. Palpi porrecti, parvi, 

 caput vix superantes; articulus 3us conicus, minimus. Antennae 

 simplices, corporis dimidio valde longiores. Abdomen alas posticas 

 non superans. Pedes sat validi ; tibiae posticae calcaribus longis. 

 Alae non lata? ; anticae apud costam recta?, apice rotundatae, marline 

 exteriore sat obliquo. Mas. — Abdomen apice subattenuatum, sub- 

 compressum. 



Body stout. Proboscis short. Palpi porrect, small, hardly 

 extending beyond the head ; third joint conical, very minute, less 

 than one-fourth of the length of the second. Antennae simple, 

 much more than half the length of the body. Abdomen not 

 extending beyond the hind wings. Legs rather stout ; hind tibia? 

 with long spurs. Wings not broad. Fore wings straight in front, 

 rounded at the tips, rather oblique along the exterior border. 

 Male. — Abdomen slightly attenuated and compressed towards 

 the tip. 



1. EUGRAPHIA IRRETITA. 



Albo-flava ; abdomen luteum ; alee anticm lineis tribus postice 

 connexis lineolisque tribus posterioribus nigris, extus cupreo- 

 fuscce fasciis duabus connexis luteis ; postica? maris alba 

 luteo marginatce, fceminae lutea, fascia cupreo-fusca. 



Noctua irretita, Hubn. Zeitr. f. 305, 306. 

 Eugraphia irretita, Guen. Noct. ii. 208, 974. 



Noctua melanogramma, Perty, Del. Anim. Artie. Braz. pi. 32, 

 f. 10, ;, 7a 3- 



a. Brazil. Presented by E. Doubleday, Esq. 



