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CATALOGUE OF 
Body moderately slender. Palpi short, nearly straight, alike 
in colour; third joint indistinct. Antenna? slender, squamous 
above, velvety or pubescent beneath in the male. Legs long, 
smooth, rather stout ; hind tibiae with four short spurs. Wings 
ample, sericeous, with more or less streaks. Fore wings acute, tri- 
angular. Hind wings quadrangular, extending beyond the abdo- 
men ; exterior border forming a caudiform angle. 
Europe. 
1. Urapteryx sambucahia. 
Flava ; caput antice fuscum ; alee strigulis paucis transversis 
olivaceis , linea interiore subochracea ; anticce linea exteriore 
subochracea ; posticce fimbria ex parte ochracea , liluris dua- 
bus apud angulum , 1 a rufa , 2 a nigra. 
— - - 1 , Goed. Ins. ii. pi. 34. List , Goed. f. 10. Petiv. 
Gazoph. pi. 51, f. 6. Rai , Ins. 17 7, 1. Albin, Ins. pi. 94. 
Roes. Ins. i. Phal. 3, pi. 6. Geoff. Ins. ii. 138, 58. Wilk. 
pi. 78. Clerck , Icon. pi. 50, f. 2. Deg . Ins. ii. 1, 447, 3. 
Schceff. Icon. pi. 93, f. 8. Sepp. Ins. i. 6, 3, pi. 1. DeVill. 
Ent. Linn. ii. 293, 404. 
Phalaena-Geometra Sambucaria, Linn. Syst. Nat. i. 2, 860, 203 ; 
Faun. Suec. 1222; Mus. Lud. Ulr. 391. Fabr . Sp. Ins. ii. 
243, 12; Mant. Ins. ii. 186, 16; Ent. Syst. iii. 2, 134, 19. 
Wien. Verz. 103, 1. Gmel. ed. Syst. Nat. i. 5, 2449, 203. 
Brahm , Ins. ii. 1, 351, 234. Bork. Eur. Selim, v. 80, 37. 
Esp. Schmett. v. 51, pi. 8, f. 1 — 8. III. N. Ausg. dess. i. 398, 
1. Fuessl. Scliw. Ins. 39, 754. Schr. Faun. Boic. ii. 2, 11, 
1622. Gotze , Ent. Beytr. iii. 3, 285, 203. Mull. Zool. Dan. 
Prodr. 125, 1435. Lang. Verz. ii. 167, 1167. H'ubn. Geom. 
pi. 6, f. 28. Haw. Lep . 297. 
Therinia sambucaria, Hubn. Verz. Selim. 290, 2820. 
Urapteryx sambucaria, Leach , Zool. Misc. 80, pi. 35, f. 2. Steph. 
Ins. Brit. Haust. iii. 175. Dup. Lep. v. 199, pi. 184. Curt. 
Brit. Ent. pi. 508. Boisd. Ind. Meih. 182, 1435. Herr.-Sch. 
Eur. Schm. iii. 54, 141. S taint. Man. ii. 4. 
Acaena sambucaria, Treit . Schm. vi. 1,85, l. 
a. England. Presented by Edwin Shepherd, Esq. 
b — n. England. From Mr. Stephens’ collection. 
o — p. England. 
g — v. Europe. From M. Becker’s collection. 
u. France. 
w. p Presented by E. Doubleday, Esq. 
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