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CATALOGUE OF 
Genus 1. HEPIALUS. 
Corpus sat gracile. Caput et thorax pilosa. Palpi ohsoleti. 
Antennae breves, graciles, simplices, filiformes. Abdomen alas pos- 
ticas paullo superans. Pedes validi, pilosi. Alse longae, angustae ; 
anticae apud costam subrectae, apice subrotundatae, margine exte- 
riore perobliquo. Mas.— Tibia? posticae fasciculate. 
Gorgopis, p., Gazoryctra, Pharmacis et Triodia, Hubn. Verz. 
Schmett. 198. 
Phalaena-Noctua, p., Linn. 
Phalaena-Hepialus, p., Gmel. 
Hepialus, Fabr. ; Schr.; Latr. ; Haw.; God.; Leach; Samou. ; 
Curt. ; Steph. 
Hepiolus, Illig. ; Ochs. 
Bombyx, p., Hubn. 
Noctua, p., Esp. 
Cossus, p., God. 
Body rather slender. Head and thorax pilose. Proboscis and 
palpi obsolete. Antennae slender, simple, filiform, about as long as 
the breadth of the head, hardly longer in the male than in the 
female. Abdomen extending rather beyond the hind wings. Legs 
stout, pilose; hind tibiae with two very minute apical spurs. Wings 
long and narrow. Fore wings almost straight along the costa, 
somewhat rounded at the tips, extremely oblique along the exterior 
border; second inferior vein about ten times further from the third 
than from the first. Male . — Hind tibiae tufted with long hairs. 
Europe. 
A. Alas apice acutae. - - - - Humuli, Linn. 
B. Alae apice rotundatae, anticae signaturis subargenteis et fuscis. 
A. Vitta subargentea macularis ex apice alae versus medium 
marginis interioris, deiude ad basim. 
a. Fuscus, maculis argenteis. - Ganna, Hubn. 
b. Subferrugineus aut cinerascens, maculis albidis. 
. lupulinus, Linn. 
B. Lineae duae rectas a margine antico versus interiorem in angu- 
lum rectum convergentes. - - Sylvinus, Linn. 
C. Signaturae confusae. 
a. Ciliae inter costas albidae. 
