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(f. Palpi with the 2nd joint fringed with hair 



in front ; hind wing with vein 5 from 



below middle of discocellulars . . Pyrois. 



6 s . Palpi smoothly scaled ;hindwing with vein 



5 from middle of discocellulars . . Amphipyra 



. Abdomen not dorsally flattened. 

 a K . Head and thorax clothed with rough hair 



and spatula te scales . . . . Oroplexia. 



If. Head and thorax smoothly clothed with 



Hair and hair-like scales . . . . Colymnia. 



c i . Thorax clothed with hair only . . Hypa Calamia. 



Genus Pyrois. 





Type. 



cinnamomea. 



cinnamomea. 



Pyrois, Hiibn. Verz., p. 208 (1827) 



Syntomopus, Guen. Ann. Soc. Ent. Fr. vi, p. 223 (1837) 



Proboscis fully developed ; palpi upturned, the 2nd joint reaching about 

 to middle of frons and fringed with hair in front, the 3rd short ; frous 

 smooth ; eyes large, round ; antennse of male minutely ciliated ; thorax 

 clothed with hair and hair-like scales and without crests ; tibiae fringed 

 with long hair ; abdomen dorsally flattened, clothed with rough hair 

 at base and with lateral fringes of hair towards extremity, but without 

 crests. Forewing with the apex rounded, the termen evenly curved, 

 crenulate ; 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. Hindwing 

 with veins 3 - 4 from angle of cell ; 5 obsolescent from just below middle of 

 discocellulars ; 6 - 7 from upper angle ; 8 anastomosing with the cell near 

 base only. 



1659. Pyrois albicilia. 



Genus Amphipyra. 



Amphipyra, Ochs Schmett. Eur. iv, p. 70 (1816) non 

 descr; Triet. Schmett. Eur. v. (1), p. 276 

 (1825) . . 

 Scotophila, Hiibn. Verz., p. 208 (1827) 

 Pyrophila, Steph. 111. Brit. Ent. Haust. ii, p. 164 (1829) 

 Phiopyra, Guen. Ann. Soc. Ent. Fr. vii, p. 116 (1838) 

 Pyrophia, Hiibn. Tent. ined. 

 A. Hindwing cupreous red. 



a Forewing with the ante and postmedial lines present. 

 a 1 Forewing with strong dentate dark marks in the 

 interspaces before subterminal line and streaks 

 beyond it . . . . 3 , 



Type. 



tragopogints. 

 livida. 



tragopoginis . 

 pyramided . 

 pyramidea. 



magna. 



