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XIV. Description of three Genera of Noctuidae 



BY AUG. E. GROTE. 

 [Bead before this Society, October 2dd, 1873.] 



Hadcua turbuleuta. 



PhospMla turbulenta, Hubner, Zutr. S. 15, figs. 67, G8. 

 AmpMpyraf turbulenta , Walker. 



Ocelli. Eyes naked, with lashes. Antennae ( S ) simple, sparsely and finely 

 pubescent. Thorax tufted, on the disc behind the collar. Abdomen with 

 slight dorsal tufts. Tibiae unarmed. Slender-bodied ; squamatiou pulveru- 

 lent on the wings, hairy on the legs and thorax. Bright brown ; fore wings 

 widening at outer third, paler outside of the t. p. line. Median lines approxi- 

 mate inferiorly; t. p. line superiorly outwardly projected, double, the inner 

 line most distinct, lunulatedentate. Costal region between t. p. and subter- 

 miual line dark brown, relieving the pale costal dots. Subterminal line faint; 

 on the subterminal space the veins are darker marked. Two prominent dark 

 brown parallel streaks, fused by a dark shade, rest on the submedian inter- 

 space above internal angle. Hind wings pale brown, with an even, outwardly 

 pale shaded, transverse line opposite the t. p. line of primaries ; a faint discal 

 streak and dififuse darker terminal shade. Fringes on primaries dark, cut 

 with pale at the extremity of the nervules ; on secondaries pale reddish with 

 a dusky outer shade. Beneath duller hued, with discal dots and common line. 

 Noticeable fi'om the inward position of the t. p. line of primaries and trans- 

 verse line of the hind wings. 



ExiKinse, 28 m. m. Albany (Lintner) ; Georgia (Hubner). A 

 species not noticed by Guenee, and referred without any apparent 

 reason to Ampliipyra, by Walker, from Iliibner's figures. 



Homoliadena, n. g. 



Ocelli. Eyes naked, with feeble (?) lashes. Tibiae unarmed. Thorax with 

 smooth unelevated discolorous collar, the disc untufted. Abdomen without 

 tufts, a little flattened ( s ). Maxillae moderate. No frontal protuberance. 

 Size moderate. Differs from Haclena by the untufted thorax and abdomen. 

 Ornamentation peculiar ; ordinary spots and subterminal line obsolete ; me- 

 dian lines even, flexous, approximate; t. p. line strongly arcuatedly projected 

 opposite the cell ; a brown dash from base to t. a. line, below submedian vein, 

 continued more faintly across the median space to an opposite notch on the 

 t. p. line ; a second large dash on the cell continued beyond the t. p. line. 

 Brown ; hind wings whitish in i ; fuscous in ? . 



