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Synopsis of the genera of the Noctuidae. 



By John B. Smith. 



DIVISION A. EYES NAKED. 



I. TIBLE SPINULATED. 



f ANTERIOR ARMED AT TIP. 



A. C/jpeus with a flattened, quadrate, corWus projection. 



Anterior tibia very short, broad flattened; a long stout claw at inside, 

 and three short strong claws at outer side; vestiture scaly. TricopiS. 



Interior claw of anterior tibia disproportionately long, nearly 

 equalling tibia: eyes reniform: head small, retracted: vestiture di- 

 vergent. Heliolonche. 

 Anterior tibia long and slender: a claw at inner, and three spines at 

 outer side of tip- vestiture hairy. *BeSS"llla. 

 /'. Clypeus u nthout projection. 



§ VESTITURE HAIRY. 



f Anterior tibia slender, shorter than first tarsal joint. 

 Female ovipositor notably extruded: a stout claw at middle and a 

 shorter at either side of tip of anterior tibia. CopablephafOIl. 



Female ovipositor not extruded; anterior tibia with a claw at inner 

 and a spine at outer side of tip: Head large, free; eyes globose. Grotella, 

 Head small, retracted; eyes reniform: tibia as before Melaporphyria. 



ff Anterior tibia longer than first tarsal joint. 



with a stout claw at inner, and a shorter at outer side of tip: 



primaries short and broad. Dsrrittia. 



with a stout spine at either side of tip and sometimes a claw at 



middle: primaries elongate, narrow, outer margin slightly oblique. 



Heliothis. 1 



Much stouter: thorax very heavy, strongly convex; wings dispropor- 

 tionately short and narrow: tibia as before. Chloridea. 



