472 noctuid^:. 



folds : a terminal series of slight dark striae; cilia with a dark line 

 near hase. Hind wing dark olive-brown suffused with grey espe- 

 cially on terminal half; rather diffused dark medial and postmedial 

 lines ; cilia dark brown at base, grey at tips ; the underside greyer, 

 the medial line oblique and diffused, traces of two postmedial lines. 



Fig. 228. — Axenus arvalis, rf . }. 



Ab. 1. ochracea. Head and thorax clothed chiefly with fulvous 

 hair ; fore wing with a cupreous tinge. 



Ab. 2. ampla. Wings with the grey markings more or less 

 completely obsolete except the subterminal line. 



Hah. U.S.A., Oregon, 2 £ , ltouge E. ( Waldngliam), 12 rf , 2 ? , 

 Grant Co. ( Walsingliam), 2 $ , Colorado, California, '3 <$ , 9 § . 

 Exp. 20-24 millim. 



Genus ANNAPHILA. 



Type. 



Annaphila, Grote, Bull. Buff. Soc. Nat. Sci. i. p. 149 (1873) diva. 



Proboscis fully developed ; palpi porrect to just beyond frons and clothed 

 with long hair; frons with rounded prominence with corneous plate below it ; 

 eyes small, elliptical; antennas of male ciliated; thorax clothed with rough 

 scales and hair and without crests; tibise fringed with longhair; abdomen 

 without crests and with lateral fringes of hair. Fore wing short and broad, 

 *he apex rounded, the termen evenly curved and not crenulate ; veins 3 and o 

 f rom near angle of cell ; 6 from upper angle ; 9 from 10 anastomosing with 8 

 to form the areole ; 11 from cell. Hind wing with veins o, 4 from angle of 

 cell; 5 obsolescent from middle of discocellulars ; 6, 7 from upper angle; 

 8 anastomosing with the cell near base only. 



A. Hind wing orange. 



a. Hind wing with the basal and inner areas dark, without 

 subbasal line. 



a 1 . Hind wing without discoidal black spot arvalis. 



b l . Hind wing with discoidal black spot. 



a' 2 . Hind wing with more or less developed postmedial 



line davistica. 



b-. Hind wing without postmedial line. 



a 3 . Fore wing without diffused white postmedial band. 

 a 4 . Fore wing without black patch between orbicular 



and reniform mera. 



b 4 . Fore wing with black patch between orbicular 

 and reniform. 

 a 5 . Fore wing on underside with three dark discal 



spots domina. 



