810 CATALOGUE OF 



Genus 4. BANKIA. 



Corpus gracile. Proboscis brevis. Palpi pilosi, oblique ascen- 

 dentes; articulus 3us lanceolatus, 2i triente non longior. Antennae 

 corporis dimidio longiores. Abdomen alas posticas non superans. 

 Pedes graciles; tibiae posticag calcaribus longis. Alae latiusculae; 

 anticae apud costam rectae, apice subrotundatae, margine exteriore 

 perparum obliquo. 



Bankia, Guen. Noct. ii. 231. 

 Erastria, p., Trek.; Steph. 

 Anthophila, p., Boisd. 



Body slender. Proboscis short. Palpi pilose, obliquely as- 

 cending ; third joint lanceolate, about one-third of the length of the 

 second. Antennae more than half the length of the body. Abdo- 

 men not extending beyond the hind wings. Le^s slender ; hind 

 tibiae with long spurs. Wings rather broad. Fore wings straight 

 in front, slightly rounded at the tips, very slightly oblique along the 

 exterior border. 



1. Bankia argentula. 



Luteo-cervina ; abdomen albidum ; alee anticae fasciis duabus 

 obliquis albis nigro marginatis, linea marginali albida ; pos- 

 ticce albidce, margine obscuriore. 



Pyralis Bankiana, Fabr. Sp. Ins. ii. 275, 1 ; Mant. Ins. ii. 224, 1 ; 



Ent. Syst. ii\. 2, 242, 1. 

 Tortrix olivana, Wien. Verz. 120, 1. 



Phalaena-Tortrix Bankiana, Gmel. ed. Syst, Nat. i. 5,2497, 808. 

 Noctua argentula, Esp. Schmett. iv. pi. 163, f. 3. Bork. Eur. 



Sckmett. iv. 798, 367. Dup. Pap. de Fr. vii. 373, pi. 123, f. 2. 

 Noctua olivea, Hubn. Eur. Schmett. Noct. pi. 60, f. 292. 

 Argyrostrotis olivea, Hubn. Verz. Schmett. 253,2508. 

 Erastria argentula, Treit. Schmett. v. 255, 3. 

 Anthophila argentula, Meig. Handb. 185, 100 ; Syst. Besch. iii. 242, 



8, pi. 120, f. 3. Boisd. Ind. MM. 174, 1399. 

 Bankia argentula, Guen. Noct. ii. 231, 1014. 



a — e. England. From Mr. Stephens' collection. 

 f—i. Europe. From M. Becker's collection. 

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