EHTNCHAGROTIS. PROTEUXOA. 649 



1115. Kliynchagrotis gilvipennis. (Plate LXXVII. fig. 23.) 



Agrotis gilvipennis, Grote, Gtb Eept. Peab. Acad. Sci., App. p. 24 (1874) ; 

 Smith, Cat. Noct. IS*. Am. p. 51 ; Stand. Cat. Lep. pal. p. lo6. 



Head and thorax grey and fuscous brown, the latter sometimes 

 tinged with rufous ; tarsi blackish with pale rings ; abdomen 

 yellowish irrorated with fuscous and dorsally suffused with fuscous, 

 leaviug pale segmental lines on the terminal segments. Fore 

 wing brown suffused with grey or ochreous : a subbasal striga 

 from costa ; a waved antemedial line ; the orbicular and reniform 

 witli pale annuli defined by black, the former very oblique, elliptical, 

 and with its lower extremity confluent with the rather small 

 reniform ; the postmedial line dentate, bent outwards below costa, 

 excurved to vein 4, then incurved ; the subterminal line greyish, 

 irregularly sinuous, with diffused brown on its inner edge and a 

 blackish patch with two pale points on it at costa ; a fine terminal 

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

 strongly suffused with fuscous black ; a broad black terminal band 

 expanding at apex and in submedian fold ; cilia yellow. Underside 

 of fore wing black, with slight yellow streak on median nervure 

 and the marginal areas yellow. 



Hab. Canada, Labrador, Anticosti, Id?, type; U.S.A., Maine, 

 Vermont, Andirondack Mts., Massachusetts, Buffalo, 1 $ , New York. 

 Exp., 6 28, $ 34 millim. 



Genus PROTEUXOA, nov. 



Type, P. amaiiwdes. 



Proboscis fully developed ; palpi obliquely upturned, the 2nd joint fringed 

 with hair ; frous smooth ; eyes smooth ; head and thorax clothed with hair and 

 scales, the latter with slight tufts behind tegular and on metathorax ; hind tibiiB 

 with one spine between the spurs. Fore wing with veins 3 and 5 from close to 

 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 ; (>, 7 from upper angle. 



Sect. I. Antennae of male bipectinate to apex, with moderate branches. 



*111(J. Proteiixoa mniodes. 



Agrotis 7/tnoides, Lower, ined. 



J . Head and thorax grey mixed with dark brown : tarsal joints 

 black with pale rings ; abdomen pale brownish grey. Fore wing 

 o-rey irrorated with fuscous; the subbasal line double, waved, black, 

 from costa to vein 1 ; the antemedial line double, waved, angled 

 outwards in cell and excurved above inner margin; claviform conical, 

 black ; orbicular and reniform grey, with whitish annuli and black 

 outline, the former round, the latter moderate, some blackish 

 suffusion in cell between them and beyond the latter ; a waved 

 medial line from lower angle of cell to inner margin ; the post- 

 medial line minutely waved, bent outwards below costa, excurved 

 to vein 4, then oblique ; some pale points on costa towards apex ; 



