88 CARADRININA [MELANCHRA 



Europe, N. America; 6. Larva purplish - rosy ; dorsal line 

 ochreous-brown, edged with dark grey, marked with reddish 

 spots ; subdorsal yellowish, black-edged ; series of black marks 

 above and below this ; spiracular pale yellow, red-marked : on 

 Vaccinium ; 6, 7. 



Sub-Fam. 3. CARADRINIDES. 



Eyes glabrous, not ciliated. 



20. AGROTIS, 0. 



Head rough-scaled ; eyes glabrous. Antennae in <$ ciliated, 

 often acutely bidentate or bipectinated with apex simple. 

 Thorax usually with more or less developed anterior and 

 posterior crests. Abdomen not crested. Tibiae all spinose. 



A very large genus, occurring all over the world but much 

 more plentifully in the northern hemisphere. The larvae are 

 very indiscriminate in their tastes, often feeding on almost any 

 low plant; they are frequently subterranean in habit, but 

 usually emerge by night to feed. 



1. Hindwings orange . .2. 



not orange . . . .4. 



2. Hindwings with blackish discal mark . . 3. 



without blackish discal mark . 32. pronuba. 



3. Forewings with black costal mark before subter- 



minal line . . . 34. orbona. 



,, without such mark . . 33. comes. 



4. Forewings dark fuscous with whitish veins 45. typica. 



not dark fuscous with whitish veins 5. 



5. Claviform dot-like, blackish . . .6. 



,, not dot-like . . . .8. 



6. Forewings with blackish discal dot before first line 



41. f estiva. 

 without such dot . . .7. 



7. Subterminal line pale yellowish . . 40. Dahlii. 



,, not yellowish . . 39. rubi. 



8. Claviform more or less distinctly marked . 9. 



obsolete . . . .28. 



9. Forewings light grey-greenish . .10. praecox 



not greenish . . . .10. 



10. Subterminal line preceded by three or four dark 



fuscous wedges . .11. 



not so preceded . .12. 



