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Ammoconia badicolliSj Grote, Plate 4, fig. 18, ? . 



S . — Eyes naked, strongly lashed. Middle and hind tibiae spinose. Abdomen 

 narrow, without tufts, anal segment laterally compressed. Thorax with a 

 slight tuft behind the collar, the latter medially produced. Gray, powdered 

 with brown, with a warm tint which becomes reddish on the iinder-surface of 

 the wings. Primaries with the ordinary lines partially effaced. The incep- 

 tions of the basal, transverse anterior and transverse i:)Osterior lines are marked 

 with blackish brown on costa ; between the first two the costal region is free 

 from brown scales. T. a. line skirting the large, concolorous, decumbent orbic- 

 ular, beneath which it is very fine, arcuate outwardly on submedian interspace, 

 running inwardly on vein 1, again outwardly projected to internal margin. A 

 short brown shade on the cell connects the transverse vaguely-outlined reni- 

 form, which is hardly as large as the orbicular. T. p. line geminate, consisting 

 of a pale included space margined inwardly by an obsolete line, and marked 

 outwardly by black and white nervular dots obsolete superiorly. Subterminal 

 line whitish, more' or less fragmentary and irregular, preceded by a brown 

 shade. A terminal lunulated deep brown line corresponding to the slightly 

 waved external margin. Hind wings pale fuscous, with pale fringes and 

 depressed external margin opposite the cell. Beneath, the wings are reddish 

 along costal and external margins, show rather distinct linear discal marks 

 and a common exterior transverse blackish line. Body parts beneath tinged 

 with reddish, legs brownish. Palpi prominent, brown at the sides. Collar 

 contrasting, clear pale leather brown, with a distinct superior black line. 



Expanse, 38 m. m. Habitat, Albany, N. Y. (Mr. J. A. Lintner, 

 No. 2558). 



Pleouectopoda,^ n. g. 



Eyes naked, with lashes. All the tibiae spinose; anterior pair with a longer 

 lateral spinule at the extremity of the joint, at the termination of each row of 

 spinules. Head thickly haired and thus concealing a flattened clypeal protu- 

 berance. Tongue strong, corneous. Male antennae with the edges of the 

 auteunal joints projected, bristled in lateral tufts. Size moderate, ornamenta- 

 tion Agrotiform. 



The single species differs from Agrotis by the lashes of the eyes 

 and from Cladoccra by the corneous tongue. lu the tibial armature 

 the genus resembles Mamestra E h. The vestiture of the head and 

 thorax is hairy and thick ; behind the centrally projected collar a 

 mesial crest of elevated hair traverses the thoracic disc. 



^ Gr.: (SXeovexTu et Trovg. 



