﻿LEPIDOPTERA HETEROCERA. 1437 



j- Body hardly stout. Proboscis rather short and slender. Palpi 

 Jjbort, obliquely ascending, sliu:htly pilose; second joint straight ; 

 iLhird conical, uot one-fourth of the length of the second. Antennae 

 Islander, rather short, hardly more ihan half the length of the body, 

 bare towards the base, furnished towards the tips with extremely- 

 minute isolated bristles. Thorax smooth, squamulose in front. 

 A-bdomen quite smooth, very slii^htly pilose, not extending beyond 

 the hind wings. Legs slender, hardly pilose ; hind tibiag with very 

 I long spurs. Wings broad ; ciliae squamose, double. Fore wings 

 acute, hardly subfalcate, straight along the costa, hardly convex 

 and slightly oblique along the exterior border. 



1. Agnomonia anilis. 



Ferruginea, siibtus pallidior ; abdomen cinerascens ; alee aniicm 

 albo ciliat6P,fasciis duabiis angustis albis, la recta subobliqua^ 

 2a arcuata subapicali abbreviata ; posticce fuscce, ciliis albo- 

 cinereis, 



jPhalaena-Noctua anilis, Drury^ Ins. Exot. ii. 21, pi. 12, f. 3, 63, 64. 

 Agnomonia sequistriaris (Noctua semigeometra, Ascalapha fre- 



quens), Hubn, Zutr. Exot. Schmett. iii. 10, 210, f. 419, 420. 

 Argyrostrotis anilis, Hubn. Verz. Schmett. 253, 2506. 

 Agnomonia anilis, Gaen, Noct. iii. 273, 1712. 



a, E. Florida. Presented by E. Doubleday, Esq. 

 I 6, c. Georgia. From Mr. Abbot's collection. 

 |d. Georgia. From Mr. Milne's collection* 



Genus 21. FODINA. 



Corpus sat gracile. Proboscis brevis. Palpi compressi, lon- 

 giusculi, su'opilosi, oblique ascendentes; articulus 3us linearis, 

 acutus, 2o vix brevior. Antennae breviusculae, corporis dimidio non 

 lougiores, vix cienulatae. Thorax brevis, valde squamosus, tegulis 

 abbreviatis postice subquadrads. Abdomen Iseve, stibturaidum, 

 basi subcristatum, alas posticas non superans. Pedes sat validi, 

 vix pilosi; tibiae posticse calcaribus longissimis. Alae latae, velu- 

 tinae, non denticulatae, ciliis longissimis ; anticae acutae, margine 

 exteriore subconvexo perparum obliquo. 



Fodina, Gaen. Noct, iii. 274. 



Body rather slender. Proboscis short. Palpi compressed, 

 rather long, slightly pilose, obliquely ascending ; third joint linear, 



