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NOCTTJIDiE. 



Genus EHYNCHAGROTIS. 



liht/nchagrotls, Smith, Bull. U.S. Nat. Mus. 38, p. 13 (1890) 



Type. 



gilmjoennis. 



Proboscis fully developed ; j^alpi uptunied, the 2nd joint moderately scaled 

 in front, the 3rd naked ; frons smooth ; eyes large, roundefi ; antennae of male 

 ciliated : head and thorax clothed with hair and scales, the latter without crests ; 

 mid and hind tibia3 strongly spined. Fore wing rather narrow, the apex 

 rectangular ; 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 discocellulars ; 

 6, 7 from upper angle. 



A. Hind wing with the terminal band slightly expanding on 



apical area and in submedian fold cliardlvyi. 



B. Hind wing with the terminal band broadly expanding on 



apical area and in submedian fold gilvipcnnis. 



1114. Rhyncliagrotis chardinyi. 



Triphcena chardinyi, Boisd. Ind. Meth. p. 94 (1829) ; Herr.-S chaff. Schmelt. 



Eur. ii. p. 328, pi. 30. ff. 149, 150; Dup. Lep. Fr. Suppl. iii. p. 217, 



pi. 20. f. 3 ; Stand. Cat. Lep. pal. p. 13o. 

 Triphcena h^tmra, Eversni. Bull. Mosc. 1837, p. 34 ; Frey, Neue Beitr. 



Schmett. iii. pi. 279. f. 1. 

 Agrotis fuchsii, Wendl. Jarb. Nass. Verb. liv. p. 86 (1901). 



Head, thorax, and abdomen clothed with grey and reddish-brown 

 hair ; palpi and front of pectus whitish ; tarsi black with whitish 

 rings ; abdomen black with the anal tuft yellowish at tip. Fore 

 wing reddish brown suffused with grey a subbasal dark striga 



Fig. 119. — lihynchagrotis chardinyi, cf. \. 



from costa : the antemedial line indistinct, angled outwards below 

 costa and inwards in cell and on vein 1 ; orbicular grey, oblique, 

 elliptical ; reniform rather small, outlined with grey : the post- 

 medial line minutely dentate, excurved below costa and at median 

 uervules, then incurved, and with more or less diffused grey beyond 

 it ; an irregularly waved grey subterminal line with diffused brown 

 on its inner side ; a fine brown terminal line and line through the 

 cilia. Hind wing orange-yellow; the basal, costal, and inner areas 

 irrorated with fuscous brown ; a broad terminal black band with 

 sinuous inner edge ; cilia yellow. Underside of fore wing fuscous 

 black, with yellow fascite on costa and median nervure, and the 

 terminal area yellow. 



Huh, Germany, E. Prussia ; Centr. E-fssia, 1 cj" , 1 $ , Frey Coll. ; 

 W. 81BEIUA, Altai, 1 5 ; Mongolia ; E. Siberia, 3 c5" , 1 $ , Zeller 

 Coll., Amur. Ex'i). 32 millim. 



