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Genus 9. APAMEA. 



Corpus robustum. Proboscis mediocriter longa. Palpi validi, 

 porrecti, pilosi; articulus 3us longi-conicus, 2i triente non brevior. 

 Antennae corporis dimidio raulto longiores. Abdomen alas posticas 

 perpaullo superans. Pedes validi, pilosi ; tibiae posticae calcaribus 

 quatuor longis. Alae mediocriter latae ; anticae apud costam rectae, 

 apice rotundatae, niargine exteriore mediocriter obliquo. Mas. — 

 Antennae crenulatae. 



Aparaea, Ochs. Si/st. Gloss. SchmetL von Eur. W. 

 Apamea, p., Treit. ,• Dup. ; Boisd. 

 Mamestra, p., Meig. 



Hama, p., Apamea, p., Hadena, p., Steph. 

 Qxygia, p., Exarnis, p., Baphia, p., Astrapetis, p., Po^ia, p., 



Mamestra, p., Calliergis, p., Diataraxia, p., et Parastichtis, 



p., Hubn. Verz. Schmett. 

 Luperina, p., Boisd. ; Guen. 

 Hydraecia, p., Guen. Ann. Soc. Ent. Fr. x. 251. 

 Polia, p., Herr.-Schceff. 



Body stout. Proboscis moderately long. Palpi stout, porrect, 

 pilose ; third joint elongate-conical, about one-tbird of the length of 

 the second. Antennae much more than half the length of the 

 body. Abdomen extending very little beyond the hind wings. 

 Legs stout, pilose ; hind tibiae with four long spurs. Wings mode- 

 rately broad. Fore wings straight in front, rounded at the tips, 

 moderately oblique along the exterior border; first, second and third 

 inferior veins near each other ; fourth moderately remote. 



Male. Antennae crenulate. 



Europe. 



A. Antennae maris vix crenulatae. 

 A. Alae anticae fuscae. 



a. Alae anticae non plagiatae. 



a. Alae anticae linea basali nigra. - basilinea, Wien. Verz. 



b. Alae anticae linea nulla basali nigra, 

 i. Alae longiores. 



* Vena mediana non alba, 

 f Alae anticae lineis transversis albidis. 



gemina, Hubn. 

 ff Alae anticae lineis transversis non albidis. 



unanimis, Hubn. 



** Vena mediana alba. - leucostigma, Hubn. 



ii. Alae breviores. ----- oculea, Linn. 



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