REVISION OF SPKCIES OF THE GENUS AGROTIS. 181 



Direrficnn {rersipcUis) is more nearly allied to ttHscUdta, Imt is very 

 easily (listingiiishable by the white marked subcostal and median veins 

 and the white powdered annuli of the ordinary spots. 



Redimicula is very distinct by its ji:enerally dark color, very lar^e and 

 evenly pale gray ordinary si)ots, basal space gray above the black dash, 

 and short, stumpy primaries. 



Atrifera is a somewhat luteous form, the transverse lines indislinct, 

 ordinary spots concoloroiis, cell in(;omi)letely dark'. 



TesHcUoidcs and silens are the ash-gray species. The former is darker, 

 tlie transverse lines are more evident, and the vestiture is coarser. The 

 latter is pale, the transverse lines are obsolete, an<L the vestiture is 

 smooth, even. 



SVNOI'SIS or Sl'KflKS. 



Tr.anaversc linns distinct, lnoad, palo FKRNaldi. 



Tninsvcrso lines distinct, Kinj;lc, black; primaries dull aslicn j^ray. 

 Basal dash ])iescnt, collar black lined. 

 Median space darker; ordinary spots ^id transverse lines sliari)ly defined. 



OPII'AUA. 



Uiiicolorous, pale Inteous; transverse lines obsolete; ordinary spots indetinite, 



TUISTICULA. 

 asal dasli and line of collar wanting;. 



Woolly clothin}:; of breast pale MUNI.S. 



Woolly clothing of breast black DISSONA. 



Transverse lines geminate variably distinct. 

 Hasal dash of primaries wanting. 



Color bright, bluish white, wings i>arallel, rather long EI'ROIHK.S. 



Colors, reddish to brown, to blackish, wings trigouate, apices not evidently jtro- 

 duced. 

 Secondaries in both sexes dusky. 



Claviform wanting; color pale reddi.sh ai.ticola. 



Claviform present. 

 Orbicular incomplete superiorly; basal apace somewhat paler. 



Color yellowish red, contrast between basal, a. t. and median space dis- 

 tinct Rl'FULA. 



Color dull luteous brown, with black powderings; basal space but little 



]i.i]('r; no coutrast between s. t. and median spaces basiklava. 



Orbicular complete. 



Color red brown, rather even; ordinary spots yellow powdered; cell usu- 

 ally not much darker between the spots satis. 



Color even, varying from earneons to reddish gray; no contrasts; lines 



usually more or less obsolete rkna. 



Color gray to dark fuscous brown or blackish, even ; median and ti>rmi- 

 nal spaces darker, contrasting; ordinary spots large, concolorons, 



ixsignata. 

 Color red brown to blackish, rough, powdery; macnlatiou less clear cut; 



ordinary spots pow<lered with pale scales tesskllata. . 



Secondaries of male white, of female dusky. 

 Primaries evenly colored, dark; ordinary spots largo, dark ; t. p. line obso- 

 lete A I lUPK.VXI.S. 



Secondaries white in both sexes. 



Primaries Inteous gray, even; the niaeulation distinct, clear cut., spixtanda. 

 Primaries sordid whitish, macnlatiou all present but indistinct.. PALurKNNls. 



