LEP1D0PTERA HETEROCERA. 303 



a. Eugland. From Mr. Haworth's collection. 

 b — p- England. From Mr. Stephens' collection. 

 q. England. From Mr. Stevens' collection. 

 r. Scotland. From Mr. Foxcroft's collection. 

 s— v. England. 

 u — y. Europe. From M. Becker's collection. 





2. RtJSINA QUA DRANG U LA. 



Nigro-fusca ; alee anticce cinereo tinctce lineis transversis undulatis 

 obscurioribus, orbiculari et reniformi concoloribus indistinctis 

 macula quadrata fusco-nigra divisis ; posticce cinereo nigri- 

 canles. 



Agrotis quadrangula, Eversm. Faun. Volg-Ural. 201. 

 Kusina quadrangula, Herr.-Schceff. Schmett. Ear. ii. pi. f. 496. 

 Guen. Noct. i. 256, 409. 



Ural District. Sarepta. Caucasus. 



Genus 2. AGROTIS. 



Corpus robustum. Proboscis mediocriter longa. Palpi por- 

 recti, validi, pilosi ; articulus 3us longi-conicus, 2i quadrante non 

 longior. Antennae corporis dimidio valde longiores. Abdomen 

 alas posticas plus minusve superans. Pedes validi ; tibiae anticse 

 saepissime spinosse, posticae calcaribus quatuor longis. Alae plus 

 minusve longa? lataeque; anticae apud costam rectae, apice rotun- 

 datae aut vix angulatae, margine exteriore plus minusve obliquo. 

 Mas. — Antennae pectinatae, ciliatae aut pubescentes. 



Agrotis, Ochs. Syst. Gloss. Schmett. von Eur. iv. Steph. ; Boisd, 

 Icon. ; Guen. Ann. Soc. Ent. Fr. vi. 352 ; Noct. i. 257. 



Noctua, Boisd. Index. 



Lytaea, p., Steph. 



Opigena, Steph. 



Agronoma, Telmia, Omia, Peridroma, Georyx, Scotia, p., Brotis et 

 Metaxya, Hiibn. Verz. Schmett. 



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

 pilose; third joint elongate-conical, not more than one fourth of the 

 length of the second. Antenuae very much more than half the 

 length of the body. Abdomen extending more or less beyond the 

 hind wings. Legs stout ; hind tibiae with four long spurs ; fore 



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