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Genus 49. AGROTIS, Ochs. {Curtis, Steph.) 



Agrotes, Hiibn. Graphiphor^, Hiibn. (Steph.) 



(NocTUA, Linn. Phal^na, Don.) 



Legs, anterior the shortest: tihice, anterior very short, with 

 a flat spine on the inner side : tarsi with five joints. 



Wings horizontal and crossing each other when at rest ; the 

 upper generally narrowed towards the base. 



Antenna long, setaceous, strongly pectinated in the males, 

 especially towards the base ; merely covered with bristles 

 at the apex; simple and pubescent in the females. 



Head small, thickly clothed with scales : thorax densely squa- 

 mous, not crested. 



Maxilla; as long as the antennae, robust, furnished with ten- 

 tacula at the apex. 



Palpi, labial nearly vertical, divaricating, very robust, thickly 

 clothed with long scales. 



Larva with six pectoral, eight abdominal, and two anal feet ; 

 subterranean, naked, radicivorous. 



Pupa subterranean. * 



Curtis subdivides this genus into two groups : 



A. Antennae pectinated in the males. 



a. nearly to the apex. 



This subdivision contains the following species : 

 Ag. nigra. Haw. — fusca. Haw. — cinerea, Hiibn., Curtis. 



b, pectinated only half their length : in this are con- 

 tained, Ag. siiffiisa, Hiibn. — a;qua, Hiibn. — std)ter- 

 ranea. Haw. — monostigma, Curtis. — segetim, Hiibn. 



— qffinis, — elavigera. Haw. — pujnllata. Haw. — sa- 

 gittifera, Hiibn. — hibernica. Haw. MSS. — pascua, 

 Curtis. 



B. Antenna? of the males producing fascicles of hair only. 

 A", cespitis, Hiibn. — autumnalis. Curt. — exclamationis, 



Linn. — picea. Haw. — corticca, Hiibn. — ruris, Hiibn. 



— nigricans, Linn. -7- valligera, Fab. — obelisca, Hiibn.? 



— albilinca. Haw. — linculata. Haw. — radius. Haw. 



— radiolus. Haw. MSS. — siibgothica, Haw. 



ccspUu, Wien. Vcrz.— C/i. confinis, Steph.— Bo. //««/.?. Ilawortli.— AW. 

 nifrra, Hiiw. — I'h. Jio. r;/v/H(i//w, Linn.— Sti'plicns observes, tluit tlie typical 

 species of iliis genus are tlistinguislicd by having tlieir wind's more or less 

 jcnticnlated, but in C7t. (Jiamiitis (wiiicli oufjlit |)robably to be seijarated 

 Iroui tlie rc-,t ;is a distinct <^enus) they arc entire. 

 1 C'liaratttri Iroin (Jurtis and Stephens. 



I. Atr. 



