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LAMPRA, Hbn. "^ 



Lampra, Hubner, Verz., 221, 1822. Fimbria sole species and therefore- 

 type. 



Euschesis, Hubner, Verz., 221, 1822. Janthina, unxia, clotikla. Hampson, 

 Cat. Lep. Phal. B. M., IV, 622, 1903. Cites jmithina as type. 



Rynchagrotis, Smith, Bull. U .S. N. M., XXXVIII, 8, 13, 1890. Cupida 

 designated type (p. 9). 



Abagrotis, Smith, Bull. U. S. N. M., XXXVIII, 9, 49, 1890. ErraUca sole 

 species and designated type (p. 9). 



Triphaena, Hampson (not Hubner), Cat. Lep. Phal. B. M., IV, 622, 1903. 

 Interjecta cited as type. 



A STUDY OF THE NOCTUID MOTHS OF THE 

 GENUS LAMPRA, HBN. 



The genus Lampra embraces those Noctuid moths of the Agro- 

 tinae, with unspined fore tibia, mid and hind tibia spined, smooth 

 front, eyes neither hairy nor ciliated, abdomen flattened, and with 

 head and thorax clothed with hair and scales. 



This is the Genus Triphaena of Hampson (Cat. Lep. PhaL 

 B. M., IV, 622, 1903) by reason of his first species idea of select- 

 ing genera, but it must sink to Curtis' restriction (Curtis, Brit. Ent., 

 Lep. 1, 318, 1831) with pronnba as type. Promiba has been quite 

 correctlj^ placed by Hampson in the genus he calls Agrotis (Cat. 

 Lep. Phal. B. M., IV, 363, 387, 1903) ; as shown by a personal ex- 

 amination of two specimens in the Barnes Collection, two specimens 

 in the author's collection and one specimen of var. inniiba in the 

 author's collection. The fact that the type of the genus Agrotis, 

 Hbn. is segetum, which has a frontal prominence allying it to 

 Euxoa, is of no concern here. - 



The genus Lampra, Hubner, Verz.. 221, 1822 must stand; as 

 fimbria is the sole species and therefore type. 



It may be well to note that this is the same view taken by 

 Mr. Grote in his "List of N. A., Eupterotidae, Ptilodontidae, 

 Thyateridae, Apatelidae, and Agrotidae," Abh. Nat. Ver., Bremen. 

 XIV, 44, 1895. 



Specimens of the European species of the genus Lampra were 

 obtained from Messrs. Staudinger and Bang-Haas, Blasewitz, Dres- 

 den, Germany, and are now in the author's collection. 



The main differences between fimbria (type of the genus 

 Lampra) and cupida (type of the genus Rhynchagrotis) are as 



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