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NOCTTJID^. 



Genus RHYNCHAGROTIS. 



Type. 



niupichagrotis, Smith, Bull. U.S. Nat. Mus. 38, p. 13 (1890) ... (jUvipcnnia. 



Proboscis fully developed ; palpi upturned, tlie 2nd joint moderately sealed 

 in front, the 3rd naked ; frons smooth ; eyes large, rounded ; antenna' of male 

 ciliated ; head and thorax clothed with hair and scales, the latter without crests ; 

 mid and hind tibiaj strongly spined. Fore wing rather narrow, the apex 

 rectangular ; veins 3 and 5 from 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 3, 4 from angle of cell ; 5 obsolescent from middle of discocellulars ; 

 6, 7 from upper angle. 



A. Hind wing with the terminal band slightly expanding on 



apical area and in submedian fold chanl'uiyi. 



B. Hind wing with the terminal band broadly expanding on 



apical area and in submedian fold gilvipennis. 



1114. Rhynchagrotis chardinyi. 



TripJuena. chardinyi, Boisd. Ind. Meth. p. 9-1 (1829) ; Herr.-Schaff. Schmelt. 



Eur. ii. p. 328, pi. 30. ff. 149, 150; Dup. Lep. Fr. Suppl. iii. p. 217. 



pi. 20. f. 3 ; Staud. Cat. Lep. pal. p. l.S.'i. 

 TriphcBiia hetcera. Eversm. Bull. Mosc. 1837, p. 34 ; Frey, Neue Beitr. 



Schmett. iii. pi. 279. f. 1. 

 Ac/fotisfuchsii, Wendl. Jarb. IS'ass. Verb. liv. p. 86 (1901). 



Head, thorax, and abdomen clothed with grey and reddisli-browu 



hair ; palpi and front of pectus whitish ; tarsi black with whitish 



rings ; abdomen black with the anal tuft yellowish at tip. Fore 



'wing reddish brown suffused with grey a subbasal dark striga 



Fig. 119. — Hhynchagrotis chardinyi, (^ . \. 



from costa : the antemedial line indistinct, angled outwards below 

 costa and inwards in cell and on vein 1 ; orbicular grey, oblique, 

 elliptical ; reniforra rather small, outlined with grey ; the post- 

 medial line minutely dentate, excurved below costa and at median 

 nervules, then incurved, and with more or less diffused grey beyond 

 it ; an irregularly waved grey, sub terminal line with diffused brown 

 on its inner side ; a line brown terminal line and line through the 

 cilia. Hind wing orange-yellow ; the basal, costal, and inner areas 

 irrorated with fuscous brown ; a broad terminal black band with 

 sinuous inner edge ; cilia yellow. Underside of fore wing fuscous 

 black, with yellow fasciae on costa and median nervure, and the 

 terminal area yellow. 



Hah. Germany, E. Prussia ; Centr. Russia, 1 c? , 1 $ , Frey Coll. ; 

 W. Siberia, Altai, 1 $ ; Mongolia ; E. Siberia, 8^,1 $ , Zeller 

 Coll., Amur. Ex2i. 32 millim. 



