580 NOCTUID^. 



dentate, incurved below vein 3 and defined by whitish on outer side, 

 a black streak from termen crossing it below vein 3 ; the veins 

 streaked with black at extremity ; a line black terminal line. 

 Hind wing white, the veins, costal area, and termen tinged with 

 brown ; the underside with the costal area irrorated with brown ; 

 a postmedial series of points on the veins, 



Hab. Canada ; U.S.A., 1 (S , Grote Coll., I^ew York, Georgia, 

 Colorado, Platte Cafion. Exp. 44 millim. 



Larva. Abbot & Smith, Lep. Ins. Ga. pi. 98 (1797). 



Head pale brown with black lateral line. Body pale brown, 

 shaded with darker. Sublateral line black, ou joints 5 to 12 with 

 segmentary dorsal black patches widened subdorsally, largest on 

 joint 5, obsolete on 11, and replaced by a dorsal line and subdorsal 

 blotch on 12. Dorsum yellowish, especially on thorax. A reddish 

 line above the black subdorsal line ; sides with several broken narrow 

 brown lines. Food-plant, Chionanthus. — H. G. D. 



Genus APLECTOIDES. 



Type. 



Aplectoides, Butl, A. M. N. H. (5) i. p. 193 (1878) condita. 



Flatagrotis, Smith, Bull. U.S. Nat. Mas. 38, p. 43 (1890) speciosa. 



Proboscis fully developed ; palpi upturned, the 2nd joint fringed with 

 rough hair in front ; frons smooth ; eyes large, rounded ; antennce of male 

 ciliated ; head and thorax clothed -with rough hair and scales, the pro- and 

 metathoras with spreading crests ; fore tibias slightly spined on inner side only ; 

 mid and hind tibiae spined. Fore wing rather broad ; 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. Hind wing with veins 3, 4 from angle of cell; 5 

 obsolescent from middle of discocellnlars ; 6, 7 shortly stalked. 



A. Fore wing with the orbicular oblique, elliptical. 



a. Fore wing with the lines and stigmata strongly defined by 



white speciosa. 



h. Fore wing with the lines and stigmata not prominently 

 defined by white. 



a}. Fore wing grey suffused with purplish brown^ imperita. 



b^. Fore wing pale brown irrorated with white and black ... pressa. 



B. Fore wing elongate, elliptical , condita. 



1013. Aplectoides speciosa. 



Noct'ua, speciosa, Hiibn. Schmett. Eur., Noct. f. 491 (1827); Herr.-Schaff. 

 Eiir. Schmett. f. 471 ; Staud. Cat. Lep. pal. p. 139 ; Smith, Oat. Noct. 

 N. Am. p. 58. 



Hadena arctica, Zett. Ins. Lap. p. 939 (1840). 



Aplecta schoennherri, Guen. Noct. ii. p. 79, pi. 7. f. 7 (1852), nee Herr.- 

 Schaff. 



Acronycta mixta, Wlk. ix. 62 (1856). 



Folia perquiritata, Morr. Proc. Bost. Soc. N. H. xvii. p. 136 (1874). 



Agrotis baileyana, Grote, N. Ain. Ent. i. p. 92 (1879). 



Agrotis speciosa, var. o&L-Mm, 'Frey, Lep. Schweiz, p. 117 (1880). 



Flatagrotis speciosa, var. cegrota, Al-^h. Eom. Mem. ix. p. 211 (1897). 



Head and thorax clothed with black and white hair mixed ;j palpi 

 black, white at extreipities ; abdomen pale brown more or less 

 mixed with grey ; tarsi'black ringed with white. Fore wing grey- 



