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Genus 9. MICROPHYSA. 



Corpus gracile. Proboscis brevissima. Palpi porrecti, caput 

 sat superantes; articulus 3us conicus, minimus. Antennae corporis 

 dimidio vix longiores. Abdomen alas posticas non superans. 

 Pedes mediocriter validi ; tibiae posticae calcaribus longissimis. 

 Alae latae ; anticae apud costam rectae, apice sub rotun data?, margine 

 exteriore vix obliquo. Mas. — Antennae ciliatae. 



Microphysa, Boisd. Guen. Ann. Soc. Ent. Fr. x. 233. 

 Ophiusa, p., Treits. 



Body slender. Proboscis very short. Palpi porrect, extending 

 rather beyond the head ; third joint conical, very minute, not more 

 than one-sixth part of the length of the second. Antennae hardly 

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

 beyond the hind wings. Legs moderately stout; hind tibiae with 

 very long spurs. Wings broad. Fore wings straight in front, 

 slightly rounded at the tips, hardly oblique along the exterior bor- 

 der. Male. — Antennae moderately ciliated. 



1. Microphysa regularis. 



Violaceo aut fuscescente-cinerea ; alee anticce rotundatce, triente api- 

 cali fusco nitido, linea intermedia ochracea, subarcuata extus 

 nigro lineolata i fascia interiore nigra vaga> reniformi e striga 

 angusta nigra. 



Noctua regularis, Hiibn. Eur. Schmett. Noel. f. 588. 



Odice regularis, Hiibn. Verz. Schmett. 258, 2541. 



Ophiusa regularis, Treit. Schmett. v. 315. Eversm. Faun. Volg- 



Ural. 344. Dup. Suppl. iii. 521, pi. 44. 

 Microphysa regularis, Boisd. Ind. Meth. 171, 1370. Guen. Noct. 



ii. 259, 1059. 



South Russia. 



2. Microphysa inam^ena. 



Fusco-cinerea ; alee antica fasciis tribus una mediana duabusque 

 exterioribus undulatis fuscis pallido marginatis ; posticus cine- 

 rece, macula margineque nigricantibus. 



-, Engr. Pap. d'Eur. 537, a — c. 



Noctua iuamaena, Hiibn. Eur. Schmett. Noel. f. 301, 302. 

 Odice inamaena, Hubn. Verz. Schmett. 258, 2540. 



