Smith, Synopsis of Noctuidee. -—27— 
D. Palpi reaching to or exceeding middle of front. 
§ Wings angulated. 
Vestiture somewhat divergent; thorax with an elevated anterior 
crest: primaries with acute apices; outer margin excavated to middle, 
where it is produced. Hucirroedia. “ 
§$§ Wings not angulated. 
+ Vestiture hairy with scales intermixed. 
—— divergent: thorax with prominent upright posterior tuft: ab- 
domen conspicuously tufted; primaries broad. Chytonix, 
flattened; smooth: collar somewhat projecting; thorax and ab- 
domen untufted; the latter exceeding secondaries: primaries narrow. 
Homohadena, 
coarse; thorax with posterior tuft: head sunken: primaries elon- 
gate, narrow, equal. Pachypolia.” 
+7 Vestiture hairy. 
Thorax with anterior crest; palpi horizontal and but little exceeding 
the frontal tuft: primaries narrow, elongate, with depressed costal, 
straight inner margin, and acute apices. Hoporina,” 
with dorsal crest; collar somewhat produced at middle: palpi 
oblique, divergent, stout: wings elongate; apex of primaries acute. 
Parastichtis. 
oo a large saddle shaped tuft at base: abdomen tufted: 
palpi porrect; close to front: primaries moderate, sometimes with a 
tooth at hind angle. Plusia,” 
Head sunken, palpi loosely held: collar produced in front: tufted as 
before, and in addition an exaggerated tuft on second abdominal 
segment: body pilose. Behrensia. 
Thorax quadrate; convex; with an elevated anterior crest: primaries 
widening outwardly with oblique outer margin. Xanthia. 
‘without crest: primaries wide, sub-equal; outer margin nearly 
straight. Orthosia,”° 
Head retracted, vestiture coarse; clypeus usually with a corneous pro- 
jection somewhat hood-like: abdomen short, conic, tufted. Cleophana.” 
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Bull. Brooklyn Ent. Soc., August 1882, Vol. V. 
