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CATALOGUE OF 
subapicali ; posticae rotundatas, margine exteriore vix flexo. Mas . 
— Abdomen apice fasciculatum. Fcem '— Abdomen apice acutum. 
Pseudopan thera, p. Hiibn. Verz. Schm. 295. 
Zerene, p. Treit. 
Venilia, Dup. Lep. iv. 110 ; Steph. ; Herr. -Sell. ; Leder . V. Z. B . 
W. iii. 210 ; Guen. Phal. i. Ill ; Staint. 
Melanippe, p. Boisd. 
Body slender. Head small. Front slightly prominent. Palpi 
short, porrect, extending a little beyond the bead ; third joint very 
minute. Antennae simple, submoniliform, minutely pubescent, almost 
alike in both sexes. Abdomen slightly keeled, tufted at the tip in 
the male, acute in the female. Legs slender, not long ; hind tibiae 
not incrassated, hardly longer than the femora ; spurs long. Wings 
opaque, velvety, alike in colour and markings. Fore wings acute, 
slightly excavated behind the tips. Hind wings with the angles 
rounded ; exterior border very slightly bent. 
Europe. 
1, Venilia maculata. 
Aurato-fiava ; alee punctis basalibus maculisque variis flavescente 
pilosis nigris , fimbria nigro guttata. Far. [3. — Alee totee fiavee ; 
anticce maculis quatuor costalibus nigris. 
— , Geoffr. Ins . ii. 140, 6. De Vill. Ent . Linn. ii. 305, 
426. Harr. Engl. Lep. pi. 28. 
Phalaena-Geometra maculata, Linn. Syst. Nat. i. 2, 862, 213. Gmel. 
ed. Syst. Nat. i. 5, 2482, 213. 
Phalaena maculata, Scop. Ent. Cam. 224, 557. Fabr. Sp. Ins. ii. 
264, 132; Mant. Ins. ii. 208, 198 ; Ent . Syst. iii. 2, 196, 244. 
Fuessl. Schw. Ins. 39, 762. Schr. Faun. Boic . ii. 2, 51, 1687. 
Lang. Verz. ii. 196, 1347. 
Geometra maculata, Wien. Verz. 115, 13. III. N. Ausg. dess. i. 469, 
13. Boric. Eur. Schm. v. 475, 232. Esp. Schm. v. 117, pi. 23, 
f. 2, 3. Gotze. Ent. Beytr. iii. 3, 298, 213. Brahm. Ins. Kal. 
ii. 1, 400, 280. Klum,. Beytr. 123, pi. 14, f. 5. Hiibn. Geom. 
pi. 25, f. 135. Haw. Lep. Brit. 343. 
Pseudopan ihera macularia, Hiibn. Verz. Schm. 295, 2855. 
Zerena maculata, Treit. Schm. vi. 2, 234, 9. 
Venilia maculata, Dup . Lep. v. 233, pi. 187, f. 5. Steph. III. Brit. 
Haust. iii. 304, 1. Herr.-Sch. Eur. Schm. iii. 53, 139. Guen. 
Phal. i. 112, 172. Staint. Man. ii. 9. 
Melanippe macularia, Boisd. Ind. 215, 1779. 
