462 NOCTUID.E. 



middle, tlie veins bej'ond it streaked with grey ; some white points 

 ou costa towards apex. Hind wing fuscous brown ; the cilia white 

 with brown line at base ; the underside white, the terminal area 

 suffused with brown, the costal area irrorated with brown, a slight 

 discoidal spot and diffused sinuous postmedial line. 



Hah. E. France ; S.W. Germany ; Switzerland, Valais, Zeller, 

 Frey, & Leech Colls. Exp. 34-40 millim. 



*794. Agrotis clemeiis. (Plate LXXII. fig. 11.) 



Agrotis clemens, Sm'itli, Trans. Am. Ent. Soc. xvii. p. 44 (1890) ; id. Cat. 

 Noct. N. Am. p. 75. 



$ . Head and thorax dark brown pencilled with ochreous ; 

 abdomen pale grey-brown. Fore wing pale luteous brown strongly 

 irrorated with black ; a double, waved, subbasal line from costa to 

 submedian fold ; a double, waved, black antemedial line more strongly 

 angled outwards in submedian fold ; a black discoidal spot; two 

 slight fuscous spots beyond angles of cell ; a slight waved medial 

 shade from cell to inner margin ; a strongly dentate postmedial line 

 produced to points on the veins, bent outwards below costa, excurved 

 to vein 4, then incurved ; a pale subterminal line, slightly angled 

 outward at vein 7 and excurved at middle, with a series of fuscous 

 spots on its inner edge ; a terminal series of black points ; cilia 

 with a dark line through them. Hind wing pale brown ; cilia 

 whitish ; the underside paler with dark discoidal point, a slightly 

 sinuous postmedial line and diffused subterminal line. 



Bah. U.S.A., California, Placer Co., in Coll. Schaus. Exp. 44 

 millim. 



Genus METALEPSIS. ^ 



Type. 



Meialepsis, Grote, Check List Noct. p. 25 (1875) corimta. 



Proboscis well developed; palpi oblique, fringed with long hair in front; 

 fron,^ smooth; eyes rounded, strongly ciliated ; autennse of male pectinate with 

 rather short branches ; frons and vertex of head witli tufts of hair ; thorax 

 clothed with hair, teguUc forming a dorsal ridge, pro- and metathorax with 

 crests; ti'oiaj strongly spined ; abdomen fringed with long hair at sides. Fore 

 wing rather narrow, the apex produced ; veins 3 and 5 from near angle of cell; 

 G from upper angle; 9 from 10 anastomosing with 8 to form the areole ; 11 

 from cell. Hind wing with veins 3, 4 from angle of cell ; 5 obsolescent 

 from middle of discocellulars ; 6, 7 shortly stalked. 



795. Metalepsis cornuta. 



Fachnohia cornuta, Grote, Eull. Buff. Soc. Nat. Sci. ii. p. 68 (1874) ; Smith, 

 Cat. Noct. N. Am. p. 210. 



(S . Head and thorax purplish rufous ; vertex of head and tegulse 

 dirty white, the latter with black line at base and brown medial 

 line ; tarsi with pale rings ; abdomen pale strongly irrorated with 

 black-brown, the hair at sides, anal tuft, and ventral surface rufous. 

 Fore wing purplish rufous, the costal and terminal areas suffused 



