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Vol. XVIII. SEPTEMBER, 1910. No. 3. 



NOTES ON THE NORTH AMERICAN SPECIES OF 

 AGROPERINA HAMPSON. 



By John B. Smith, ScD., 



New Brunswick, N. J. 



(Plates IV and V.) 



Agroperina is described in the Catalogue of the Lepidoptera 

 Phalaenae in the British Museum, Vol. VII, 398, 1908, as follows: 

 "Proboscis fully developed; palpi upturned, the second joint reach- 

 ing about to the middle of frons and fringed with hair in front, the 

 third short, porrect ; frons smooth; eyes large, rounded; antennae of 

 male ciliated; head and thorax clothed with hair and hair-like scales, 

 the latter with indistinctly double ridge-like dorsal crest; tibiae mod- 

 erately fringed with hair; abdomen with dorsal crests on basal seg- 

 ments, some rough hair at base and lateral fringes of hair. Fore 

 wing rather narrow, the apex rectangular, the termen obliquely curved 

 and slightly crenulate ; veins 3 and 5 from near angle of cell ; 6 from 

 upper angle ; 9 and 10 anastomosing with 8 to form the areole ; 1 1 from 

 cell. Hind wing with vein 3, 4 from angle of cell; 5 obsolescent from 

 just below middle of disco-cellulars ; 6, 7 from upper angle; 8 anas- 

 tomosing with the cell near base only." 



The generic type is given as A. latcritia Hufn., a common species 

 of wide distribution in Europe, Asia and North America. Most of 

 the other species referred here are strictly North American and they 

 include species heretofore referred to Hadcna (Xylophasia) and 



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