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Caradrina, Ochs. Schmett. Eur., TV., p. 80 (1816), non. 



descr. ; Treit. Schmett. Eur., V. (1), p. 246 (1825) glareosa. 



Noctua, Treit. Schmett. Eur., V., p. 206 (1825), nee. Linn... ravida. 



Diarsia, Hiibn. Verz., p. 222 (1827) dahli. 



Megasema,H\\bn.Yevz.,p.222 (1827) triangulum. 



Ochropleura, Hiibn. Verz., p. 223 (1827) muniva. 



Eur/raphe, Hiibn. Verz., p. 224 (1827) sigtia. 



Ogygia, Hiibn. Verz., p. 224(1827) flammatra. 



Cbersotis, Boisd. Ind. Meth., p. 103 (1810) rectagula. 



Spalotis, Boisd. Ind. Meth., p. 106 (1840) augur. 



Dichargyris, Led. Noct. Eur., p. 206 (1867) melanura. 



Proboscis fully developed ; palpi obliquely upturned, the second joint broadly 

 scaled in front, the third with small tuft of hair ; eyes smooth, large, round ; 

 frons smooth ; antennae of male typically ciliated ; head and thorax clothed 

 with hair and scales and with crests on vertex of bead and pro-and meta- 

 thorax ; fore tibia; finely spined a; sides ; mid and hind tibia; spined ; abdo- 

 men dorsally rather flattened, clothed with rough hair towards base, and with 

 lateral tufts towards extremity. Forewing rather narrow, the apex rectangular ; 

 veins 3 and 5 from close to angle of cell : 6 from upper angle ; 9 from 10- 

 anastomosing with 8 to form the areole ; 11 from cell. Hindwing with vein& 

 3-4 from angle of cell : 5 obsolescent from middle of discocellulars ; 6*7 from 

 upper angle ; 8 anastomosing with the cell near base. 



Sect. I. Antennas of male bipectinate with short branches, the apical part 

 ciliated. 



Agrotis ypsilon £ \. 



1623. Agkotis ypsilon, insert (syns.) Noctua robusta, Blanch. Gay's Chile,, 

 p. 75, pi. 6, f. 9 (1852). 



Agrotis bipars, Wlk. X., 334 (1856); Agrotis J'rirola, Wllgrn. Wien. Ent. Mon. r 

 IV., p. 160(1860). 



Agrotis aureolum, Schaus, J. N. Y. Ent. Soc, VI., p. 107 (1898). 



Section II. Antenna; of male ciliated. 



A. (Diarsia) Palpi with the hair on 2nd joint produced to 

 a point at extremity. 



a. Hindwing orange. 



a 1 . Hindwing with blackish discoidal lunule orlona. 



b\ Hindwing without blackish discoidal lunule pronuba. 



b. Hindwing not orange. 



