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other species more normal; a weak ampulla present. Uncus narrow, 
curved, pointed apically. Clavus well-developed but thin. Juxta faint. 
Aedoeagus armed apically with a narrow, curved, chitinous band, finely 
dentate; vesica with stout eornutus with bulbous base. 
The position of this highly specialized genus is puzzling, but on account 
of the spilling of the tibiae and tarsi the writer is inclined to place it closer 
to Agrotis than is done in the present lists. It includes parentalis Grt., 
distichoides Grt., and chortalis Harv. with their forms. 
The writer also places lobato Barnes here for the present on account of 
the great similarity of genitalia between it and parentalis and because, 
apart from the lack of a thoracic crest and the hairier vestiture, it agrees 
excellently in external structural characters. 
Onychagrotis Hamp. 
1903, Cat. Lep. Phal. Brit. Mus. IV, 465 (type, rileyana Morr.). 
Only to be distinguished from Agrotis by the short, broad fore tibiae 
with very heavy spines, the apical ones being practically claws. 
Figure 9. Male genitalia of Onychagrotis rileyana Morr. 
The genus contains the single species, rileyana, and is only doubtfully 
distinct from Agrotis; the genitalia show no differences. Rileyana is 
probably an offshoot from orthogonia; the wing pattern in both species is 
very similar. 
Eucoptocnemis Grt. 
1874, Bull. Buff. Soc. N. Sci. II, 13 (type, fimbriaris Gn.). 
Eyes naked. Palpi upturned with rather long narrow third joint; 
second joint heavily clothed beneath with long hairs and scales; third 
joint rather roughly scaled. Front smooth. Male antennae strongly 
bipectinate. Tibiae all spined, fore tibia short and broad, considerably 
shorter than first tarsal joint, smooth-scaled with complete row of spines 
