590 NOCTUID^. 



1027. Anomogyna vernilis. (Plate LXXYI. fig. 10.) 



Agrotis vernilis, Grote, Can. Eut. xi. p. 57 (1879; ; Siuith, Cat. Noct. X. 

 Am. p. 65. 



c? . Head and thorax white and black mixed ; palpi black, the 

 3rd joint gre}- ; antennae black; tegulae with black medial line; 

 abdomen brownish. Fore wing grey tinged with brown and irro- 

 rated with black ; the veins streaked with black ; a black streak below- 

 base of cell ; subbasal line represented by a striga from costa, the ante- 

 medial line by a very oblique streak across cell ; claviform narrow, 

 elongate, in continxiatiou of the basal streak ; orbicular and reniform 

 defined by black, with whitish annuli and grey centres, the former 

 oblique, elliptical, its lower extremity produced and confluent with the 

 reniform ; postmcdial line bent outwards below costa, then indistinct, 

 oblique, very highly dentate and produced to points on the veins ; 

 subterminal line only defined by the area beyond it being rather 

 browner, angled outwards at vein 7 and excurved at middle. Hind 

 wing grey suffused with brown ; cilia white at tips ; the underside 

 white irrorated with brown and with traces of discoidal lunule and 

 curved postmedial line. 



Hah. U.S.A., Colorado, 1 d type, Nevada, California, Sierra 

 Nevada. Exp. 38 millim. 



Sect. II. Antennre of male minutely serrate and ciliated. 



A. Fore wing with prominent white aniuili to orbicular and 



reniform stigmata , Imtahilis. 



B. Fore wing without white annuli to stigmata. 



a. Fore wing with the reniform jDrominently defined by 

 black. 



a}. Fore wing with the ground-colour brownish sincera. 



hK Fore wing with the ground-colour bluish grey albuncula. 



h. Fore wing with the reniform replaced by a reddish 



patch or almost obsolete (jelida. 



1028. Anomogyna Isetabilis. 



Hadma Icetabilis, Zett. Ins. Lap. p. 940 (1840) ; Stand. Cat. Lep. pal. 



p. 145. 

 Hadcna oUiterata, Zett. Ins. Lap. p. 941 (1840) ; Guen. Noct. i. p. 2-38, 



pi. o. f. 1. 

 Ophiusa schdnkerri, Herr.-Schaff. Schmett. Eur. vi. p. r)0, f. 598 (1856), 



neo Guen. 

 Caradrina diatensa, Ev. Bull. Mosc. 1851, ii. p. 03.3 ; id. iv. p. 331 (1855), 



pi. 1. f. 2 (1856). 



Head and thorax grey mixed with white : tarsi blackish ringed 

 with white ; abdomen grey. Fore wing grey tinged with brown 

 and thickly irrorated with fuscous black ; an indistinct waved sub- 

 basal line from costa to submedian fold, with a short black streak 

 below its extremity ; an oblique crenulate antemedial line ; clavi- 

 form elongate, outlined with black ; orbicular and reniform whitish, 

 irrorated with brown and outlined with black, the former elliptical 

 or nearly round and with blackish streaks or suffusion between it 



