364: NOCTiTiBji;. 



Type. 



Eugraplxe, Hiibn. Verz. p. 224 (1827) &igna. 



Ogygia, Hiibii. Verz. p. 224 (1827) flammatra. 



Chersotis, Boisd. Ind. Meth. p. 103 (1840) rectangida. 



Bfcelotis, Bcisd. Ind. Meth. p. 106 (1840) augur. 



Bichagyris, Led. Noct. Eur. p. 206 (1857) melanura. 



Proboscis fully developed ; palpi obliquely upturned, the 2nd joint broadly- 

 scaled in Irout, the 3rd with small tuft of hair; eyes smooth, large, round; 

 frons smooth ; antennas of male typically ciliated ; head and thorax clothed 

 with hair and scales, and with crests on vertex of head and on pro- and meta- 

 tliorax ; fore tibite finely spined at sides; mid and hind tibite spined ; abdomen 

 dorsally rather flattened, clothed with rough hair towards base, and with lateral 

 tufts towards extremity. Fore wing rather narrow, the apex rectangular; 

 veins 3 and 5 from close to angle of cell ; 6 from upper angle ; 9 from 10 

 anastomosing with 8 to form ti:e areole ; 11 from cell. Hind wing with veins 

 3, 4 from angle of cell ; 5 obsolescent from middle of discocellulars ; 6, 7 from 

 upper angle; 8 anastomosing with the cell near base. 



Sect. I. Antennte of male bipectinate, with rather long branches to apex. 



A. Tegulse black except at base badinodis. 



B. Tegulfe with dark medial line subwsea, 



640. Agrotis badinodis. (Plate LXVIII. fig. 25.) 



Agro/is badinodis, Grote, Can. Ent. vi. p. 13 (1874); Smith, Cat. Noct. 

 N. Am. p. 65. 



Head and thorax rather pale red-brown ; palpi blackish at sides 

 except at tips ; tegiilaa black, mixed with rufous towards base ; 

 tibiae and tarsi blackish; abdomen pale red-brown, the ventral 

 surface tinged with fuscous. Fore wing reddish brown, slightly 

 irrorated with fuscous and tinged with fuscous towards costa and 

 termen ; an indistinct slightly curved subbasal line from costa to 

 submedian fold ; a blackish antemedial line slightly angled outwards 

 below costa, then almost straight and erect, with a small, somewhat 

 conical, deep black spot on it in cell ; elaviform only represented 

 by a black point at its extremity; orbicular and reniform only 

 defined by a quadrate brown spot between them in the cell edged 

 before and behind by black ; an indistinct fuscous medial line 

 excurved from costa to lower angle of cell, then oblique ; an almost 

 evenly curved fuscous postmedial line defined by ochreous on outer 

 side, the area between it and the indistinct subterminal line fuscous, 

 the latter excurved at vein 7 and middle ; some pale points on costa 

 towards ape.x ; a terminal series of black points. Hind wing greyish 

 suffused with fuscous brown, the cilia whitish ; the underside 

 brownish grey, irrorated with fuscous, a black discoidal lunule and 

 curved diffused postmedial line. 



Hab. Canada, 2 c? , 1 $ ; U.S.A., Northern, Eastern, and Middle 

 States, Washington, D.C. (Koehele), 1 c? , New York, Maryland, 

 Texas. Exjp. 40 millim. 



641. Agrotis subrosea. 



Gra.phiphora rhomboidea, Steph. 111. Brit. Ent., Ilaust. ii. p. 128 (1829), 



nee E^p. 

 Graphiphora subrosea, Steph. 111. Brit. Ent., Haust. ii. p. 200 (1829) ; 



