590 NOCTUID^. 



1027. Anomogyna vernilis. (Plate LXXVI. fig. 10.) 



Agrotis vcrnUis, Grote, Can. Eut, xi. p. 57 (1879) ; Smith, Cat. Noct. N. 

 Am. p. 65. 



c5" . Head and thorax white and black mixed ; palpi black, the 

 3rd joint gre}- ; antennae black ; tegulae with black medial line ; 

 abdomen brownish. Fore wing grej- tinged with brown and irro- 

 rated with black ; the veins streaked with black ; a black streak below 

 base of cell; subbasal line represented by a striga from costa,the ante- 

 medial line by a very oblique streak across cell ; claviform narrow, 

 elongate, in continnation of the basal streak ; orbicular and reuiform 

 defined by black, with whitish annuli and grey centres, the former 

 oblique, elliptical, its lower extremity produced and confluent with the 

 reniform ; postmedial line bent outwards below costa, then indistinct, 

 oblique, very highly dentate and produced to points on the veins ; 

 subterminal line only defined by the area beyond it being rather 

 browner, aiigied outwards at vein 7 and excurved at middle. Hind 

 wing grey sufiused with brown ; cilia white at tips ; the underside 

 white irrorated with brown and with traces of discoidal lunule and 

 curved postmedial line. 



Hal). U.S.A., Colorado, 1 J type, jSTevada, California, Sierra 

 Nevada. Exp. 38 millim. 



Sect. II. Antenna3 of male minutely serrate and ciliated. 



A. Fore wing with prominent white annuli to orbicular and 



reniform stigmata Icstahllis. 



B. Fore wing without white annuli to stigmata. 



a. Fore wing with the reniform prominently defined by 



black. 



a}. Fore wing with the ground-colour brownish sineera. 



h^ . Fore wing with the ground-colour bluisli grej albuncula. 



b. Fore wing with the reniform replaced by a reddish 



patch or almost obsolete gelida. 



1028. Anomogyna Isetabilis. 



Hadena latahilis, Zett. Ins. Lap. p. 940 (1840); Stand. Cat. Lep. pal. 



p. 145. 

 Hadena ohliterata, Zett. Ins. Lap. p. 941 (1840) ; Guen. Noct. i. p. 238, 



pi. 5. f. 1. 

 Ophmsa schonherri, Herr.-SchafT. Schmett. Eur. vi. p. (30, f. .598 (1856), 



nee Guen. 

 Caradrina distensa, Ev. Bull. Mosc. 1851, ii. p. 633; id. ir. p. 331 (1855), 



pi. 1. f. 2 (1856). 



Head and thorax grey mixed with white ; tarsi blackish ringed 

 with white ; abdomen grey. Pore wing grey tinged with brown 

 and thickly irrorated with fuscous black ; an indistinct waved sub- 

 basal line from costa to submedian fold, with a short black streak 

 below its extremity ; an oblique crenulate antemedial line ; clavi- 

 form elongate, outlined with black ; orbicular and reniform whitish, 

 irrorated with brown and outlined Avith black, the former elliptical 

 or nearly rourid and with blackish streaks or suffusion between it 



