LEPIDOPTERA HETEROCERA. 861 



Genus 4. CALLOPISTKIA. 



Corpus sat gracile. Proboscis mediocriter longa. Palpi por- 

 recti, pilnsi, caput sat superaiues ; articulus 3us lanceolatus, 2i 

 dimidio longior. Antennae simplices, valida?, corporis dimidio lon- 

 giores. Thorax hirsutus. Abdomen alas posticas tix superans. 

 Pedes sat validi ; antici densissime fasciculati ; tibiae posticae cal- 

 caribus longissimis. Alae sat latae ; anticae apud costarn subrectae, 

 apice acutae, margine exteriore subdenticulato subobliquo. 



Eriopus, Treit. ; Boisd. ; Steph. ; Guen. Ann. Soc. Ent. Fr. vii. 



224 ; Noet. ii. 291. 

 Callopistria, H'ubn. Verz. Schmett. 216. 

 Hadena, p., Ochs. 



Body rather slender. Proboscis moderately long. Palpi por- 

 rect, pilose, extending some distance beyond the head ; third joint 

 lanceolate, more than half the length of the second. Antenna? 

 simple, stout, more than half the length of the body. Thorax hir- 

 sute. Abdomen hardly extending beyond the hind wings. Legs 

 moderately stout ; fore legs very thickly tufted ; hind tibiae with 

 very long spurs. Wings moderately broad. Fore wings almost 

 straight in front, acute at the tips, slightly denticulated and oblique 

 along the exterior border. 



Europe. 

 1. Callopistria Pteridis. 



Ferruginea, nigro lestaceoque varia ; abdomen fuscum, segmenlorum 

 marginibus posticis testaceis ; alee antica fasciis diffusis 

 nigris duabusque purpureis, lituris costalihus et subapicalibus 

 macularumque discalium marginibus albidis ; posticce fuscce, 

 eiliis pallidioribus. 



-, Engr. Pap. a" Eur. f. 334. 



Noctua Pteridis, Fabr. Ent. Syst. iii. 2, 90, 269. Hubn. Eur. 



Schmett. Noct. pi. 13, f. 65. Dnp. Hist. Nat. Lep. Fr. vi. 



324, pi. 93, f. 1,2. Fret/. Beitr. i. pi. 76 ; iv. pi. 305. 

 Noctua lagopus, Esp. Schmett. iv. pi. 125, f. 7. 

 Noctua manicaia, Rossi, Faun. Etr. 386. 

 Noctua formosa, Bork. Eur. Schmett. iv. 362, 149. 

 Pyralis formosissimalis, Hiibn. Eur. Schmett. Pyral. pi. 17, f. III. 



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