badinodi g. 
gcniculata. 
docilis. 
praefixa. 
violaris. 
opacifrons. 
aurulenta. 
a urulentoi- 
des. 
tern per at a. 
sem idolens. 
ypsilon. 
collaris. 
c-nigrum. 
bicar nea. 
treati. 
56 AGROTLS. By Dr. M. Dkattdt. 
A. badinodis Grt. (9 c) is a very easily recognizable species with long-combed antennae, of a dark 
brown ground-colour, a square blackish-brown spot between the maculae and a darkened band between the 
postmedian and undulate line. Canada to Texas. 
A. genkulata Grt. &• Rb. (9 c) is a bluish-grey species suffused with brown, with double transverse 
lines and grey maculae surrounded with deep black; ring-macula above open; marginal area darker with a light 
undulate line therein. Hindwing light brown with a darker margin and whitish fringes. Canada, Northern, 
Eastern and Central States to Washington. 
A. docilis Grt. (= ingeniculata Sm.) (9 c) is a very differently looking species reminding us rather 
of a Hadenid type. Grey, in some places dusted with brown, with double dentate transverse lines; coniform 
macula large and broad, brown, surrounded by black, the upper maculae grey, pupilled brownish in a somewhat 
darkened ground; undulate line irregularly dentate with brownish wedge-shaped spots behind it. Colorado. 
A. praefixa Morr. has ashy-grey forewings strewn with black, with a dark basal spot, finely dentate 
blackish-brown transverse lines and large light maculae; ring-macula obliquely elliptical, above open, reniform 
macula straight, narrow, with an uncommonly straight proximal margin, between them the cell is darkened; 
a faint, narrow, median shade is present; the light undulate line is proximally bordered by a broad dark shade. 
Hindwing brownish-grey, towards the margin darker. Expanse of wings: 42 mm. Rocky Mountains. 
A. violaris Grt. <£• Rob. (9 c). Forewing violettish-grey, scantily strewn with a reddish brown, in the 
discal area dusted with brown, with brown, slightly dentate transverse lines and a similar median shade; only 
the brownish-ringed reniform macula is more distinct, the undulate line scarcely noticeable. Hindwing brownish. 
Central States, Pennsylvania. 
A. opacifrons Grt. (9 d) recalls the palearctic subcaerulea by the bluish-grey forewings being tinted 
purple-brown, with single, dentate transverse lines, a black streak between the maculae, often with a reddish- 
brown tint above it; undulate line very indistinct. Hindwing brownish-grey with whitish fringes. Frons of 
a deep black. From New York. 
A. aurulenta Sm. (9 d) is similarly marked as the preceding, but quite light ochreous in its colouring; 
the posterior transverse line is marked by black dots on the veins, the veins in the marginal area being darker. 
Hindwings yellowish-white with fringes of a pure white. — f. aurulentoides Strcl. (= ab. 1 Hmps.) is tinted 
reddish except the light bordering of the transverse lines, with an angular anterior transverse line and an irre¬ 
gular undulate line, the maculae in lighter rings and with brownish-grey pupils; a smaller race more from the 
east. — Nebraska, Colorado, Arizona. 
A. temperata Schs. (9 e) is light greyish-brown or reddish-brown with a jet-black collar, on the 
forewing striated dark brown, towards the costal margin and subterminally dusted with ferruginous brown; 
transverse lines and median shade single, the maculae whitish in a jet-black cell. Hindwing brownish, some¬ 
what diaphanous. Mexico, Costa Rica, and Brazil. 
A. semidolens Wkr. (10 d) is a large, bluish ash-grey species, on the forewing transversely striated in 
a deep red-brown, the striae flowing together into large spots before, in and behind the centre of the costal 
margin and in the centre of the proximal margin; no transverse lines, the reniform macula is an indistinct 
dark luna. Hindwing white with brownish veins, costal and proximal margins. From Mexico to Colombia 
and Brazil. 
A. ypsilon Rott. (= suffusa Schiff., telifera Harr.) (9 d) is the well-known species being also distributed 
in the palearctic and Indo-Australian regions. In America its range extends from Canada through Mexico and 
Central America, Brazil and Pern to Chile and Argentina. 
A. collaris Grt. db Rb. (9 d) recalls badinodis (9 c) in its colouring and marking, but it has no combed 
antennae and has narrower wings, with a jet-black collar. The reddish-grey ring-macula is V-shaped, above 
open, before and behind it the cell is filled up with a deep brownish black. From Canada to Colorado. 
A. c-nigrum L. (9 e) has been dealt with at large in the palearctic and Indo-Australian parts. This 
well-known species occurs in America from Canada down to Mexico. 
A, bicarnea On. (= plagiata Wkr.) (9 e) looks somewhat like c-nigrum ; the purple brown ground- 
colour is at the costal margin lighter ochreous reddish before the anterior and behind the posterior transverse 
line; between the maculae, which are ringed in grey and black, the cell is jet-black; the undulate line consists 
of small ochreous-yellowish spots with small black sagittae. Canada to Colorado. — Larva light brown with 
light dorsal and subdorsal lines, the former bordered with a dark brown, and with a broad lateral band bordered 
with white; it lives polypliagous on low plants. 
A. treati Grt. (9 d) differs from bicarnea by the rusty-redciislr brightening at the costal margin being 
absent on the transverse stripes; the ground-colour is greyer, the reniform macula is also on the outside embedded 
in black, both the maculae are above and beneath open. Massachusetts. 
