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prominence at extremity ; eyes large, ronnded ; antennas of male ciliated ; head 

 and thorax clothed with scales mixed with a few hairs, the metathorax with 

 distinct crest ; fore tibia? fringed with hair ; mid and hind tibiae with a few 

 spines ; abdomen clothed with rough hair and with lateral tufts towards 

 extremity. Forewing with veins 3 and 5 from near angle of cell ; 6 from upper 

 angle ; 9 from 10 anastomosing with 8 to form the areole ; 11 from cell. 

 Hindwing with veins 34 from angle of cell ; 5 obsolescent from below angle of 

 discocellulars ; 67 shortly stalked. 



A. Forewing silvery white thickly irrorated with bronze 



green, the terminal area brown nigroviridis. 



B. Forewing sap-green suffused with black and marked 



with pale-brown ,., atrovirens. 



C. Forewing black-brown renalba. 



1G67. Neurois nigroviridis. 



1666. Neurois atrovirens. 



1668. Neurois renalba. 



Genus Eurois Type. 



Eurois, Hiibn. Verz., p 217 fl827) prasina. 



Aplecta, Guen. Aun. Soc. Ent. Fr. vii„ p. 217 (1845) prasina. 



Matuta, Grote, Can. Ent. vi., p. 116 (1874) tenebrifera. 



Adelphagrotis, Smith, Bull. U. S. Nat. Mus. 38, p. 38 (1890) stellaris. 



Proboscis fully developed; palpi upturned, the 2nd joint broadly fringed 

 with hair in front, the 3rd short, porrect, with some hair in front ; eyes large 

 rounded ; frons smooth ; antennas of male typically ciliated ; head and thorax 

 clothed with hair and scales and with spreading crests on pro-and meta-thorax ; 

 fore tibiae fringed with hair ; mid and hind tibiae Bpined. Forewing rather 

 broad, the apex rectangular ; veins 3 and 5 from near angle of cell ; 6 from 

 upper angle ; 9 from 10 anastomosing with 8 to form the areole ; 11 from cell. 

 Hindwing with veins 3*4 from angle of cell ; 5 obsolescent from middle of 

 discocellulars ; 6*7 from upper angle. 



if* 



Eurois virens. $ \. 

 1785. Eurois virens. 



Genus Epilecta. Type. 



Epilecta, Hiibn. Verz., p. 220 (1827) li?iogrisea. 



Hiria, Dup. Cat. Meth., p. 145 (1844) nee Hyriaham. Moll. 



1819 , Unogrisea. 



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