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Genus 11. ORTHODES. 



Corpus sat robustum. Proboscis mediocriter longa. Palpi 

 saepissime validi, pilosi, ascendentes ; articulus 3us in speciebus 

 I-L4 brevis. Antennae corporis dimidio longiores. Abdomen alas 

 posticas triente superans. Pedes validi ; tibiae posticae calcaribus 

 quatuor longis. Alae breviusculae ; anticae apud costam subrectae, 

 apice subangulatse, margiue exteriore vix obliquo. Mas. — Antennas 

 saepissime simpliees. Sexualia magna. 



Orthodes, Guen. Noct. i. 371. 



Body moderately stout. Proboscis moderately long. Palpi 

 generally stout, pilose, ascending; third joint short in the typical 

 species. Antennas more than half the length of the body, generally 

 simple in the male. Abdomen extending for about one-third of its 

 length beyond the hind wings ; apical appendages of the male 

 large. Legs stout ; hind tibiae with long spurs. Wings rather 

 short. Fore wings almost straight in front, somewhat angular at 

 the tips, hardly oblique along the exterior border. 



The North American species may be considered as the types of 

 this genus ; some of those from South America belong to distinct 

 genera, and perhaps to the second group of Noctuites. 



North America. 

 The four following may be all varieties of one species. 



1. Orthodes cynica. 



Fusca aut rufo-fusca ; abdomen cinereum ; alee anticce fasciis 

 transversis undulatis indistinctis obscurioribus et pallidioribus, 

 guttis exterioribus nigris, maculis orbiculari et reniformi sub- 

 obsoletis ; posticce nigro-cinerece, ciliis pallidis. 



Orthodes cynica, Guen. Noct. i. 375, 627. 



a. New York. Presented by E. Doubleday, Esq. 



b — e. Nova Scotia. From Lieut. Eedman's collection. 



2. Orthodes nimia. 



Fusca ; abdomen subcervinum ; alee antica lineis transversis angu- 

 losis obscurioribus et pallidioribus, maculis orbiculari et reni- 

 formi subcequalibus albido marginatis ; posticce cinerece. 



