EHTNCHAGEOTIS. — PEOTEUXOA. 649 



1115. Rhynchagrotis gilvipennis. (Plate LXXVII. fig. 23.) 



Agrotls gilvi'pennis, Grote, 6tb Kept. Peab. Acad. Sci., App. p. 24 (1874) ; 

 Smith, Cat. Noct. N. Am. p. 51 ; Staucl. Cat. Lep. pal. p. 136. 



Head and thorax grey and fuscous brown, the latter sometimes 

 tinged with rufous ; tarsi blackish with pale rings ; abdomeu 

 yellowish irrorated with fuscous and dorsally suffused with fuscous, 

 leaviug pale segmental lines on the terminal segments. Fore 

 wing brown suffused with grey or ochreous ; a subbasal striga 

 from costa ; a waved anteraedial line ; the orbicular and reniform 

 with pale annuli defined by black, the former very oblique, elliptical, 

 and with its lower extremity confluent with the rather small 

 reniform ; the postmedia] line dentate, bent outwards below costa, 

 excurved to vein 4, then incurved ; the subterminal line greyish, 

 irregularly sinuous, with diffused brown on its inner edge and a 

 blackish patch with tAvo pale points on it at costa ; a fine terminal 

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

 strongly suffused with fuscous black ; a broad black terminal band 

 expanding at apex and in submedian fold ; cilia yellow. Underside 

 of fore wing black, with slight yellow streak on median nervure 

 and the marginal areas yellow. 



Hah. Canada, Labrador, Anticosti, 1 c? $ , type; U.S.A., Maine, 

 Vermont, Andirondack Mts., Massachusetts, Buffalo, 1 5 , New York. 

 Exp., 6 28, $ 34 millim. 



Genus PROTEUXOA, nov. 



Type, P. amaurodea. 



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

 with hair; frons smooth ; eyes smooth; head and thorax clothed with hair and 

 scales, the latter with slight tufts behind tegulte and on metathorax ; hind tibite 

 with one spine between the spurs. Fore wing with veins 3 and 5 from close to 

 angle of cell ; 6 from upper angle ; 9 from 10 anastomosing with 8 to form 

 the areole ; 1 1 from cell. Hind wing with veins 3, 4 from angle of cell ; 

 5 obsolescent from middle of discocellulars ; 6, 7 from upper angle. 



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



*1116. Proteuxoa mniodes. 



Agrotis mnoides, Lower, ined. 



c5' . Head and thorax grey mixed with dark brown ; tarsal joints 

 black with pale rings ; abdomen pale brownish grey. Eore wing 

 grey irrorated with fuscous ; the subbasal line double, waved, black, 

 from costa to vein 1 ; the antemedial line double, waved, angled 

 outwards in cell and excurved above inner margin ; claviform conical, 

 black; orbicular and reniform grey, with whitish annuli and black 

 outline, the former round, the latter moderate, some blackish 

 suffusion in cell between them and beyond the latter ; a waved 

 medial line from lower angle of cell to inner margin : the post- 

 medial line minutely waved, bent outwards below costa, excurved 

 to vein 4, then oblique ; some pale points on costa towards apex ; 



