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A. clemens Sm. (10 c) is a species with narrower wings, of a much lighter yellowish greyish-brown clemens. 
ground-colour, similarly marked as the preceding, but the anterior transverse lines double, instead of the maculae 
there is only a dark discal spot, behind it 2 more punctiform spots; an undulate median shade is present; proxi- 
mally to the light undulate line a row of small blackish sagittae. Hindwing light brown with whitish fringes. 
California. 
A. unicolor Wkr. (= clandestina Harr., nigriceps Wkr.) (10 d) differs from clemens by its darker greyish- unicolor. 
brown forewing with a fine black basal ray; between the maculae often a black streak on the discal fold, also 
the posterior transverse line is double. Hindwing whitish, dusted with brown. From Greenland, Canada, and 
in the United States as far as New York and Massachusetts. — The larva is brown with a narrow whitish dorsal 
line and large brown oblique subdorsal spots; it lives polyphagous on low plants. 
A. jalapa Hmps. (= satyricus Drc.) (10 cl) is more dark red-brown, strewn with black, on the veins jalapa. 
striped black with indistinctly double dentate transverse lines, the small maculae encircled with black and con¬ 
nected by a black streak; in the marginal area black internerval streaks. Hinclwing light brown. Mexico (Jalapa). 
A. havilae Grt. (10 e) is smaller than jalapa and tinted more grey, very similarly marked, with a black havilae. 
basal ray, sharply dentate transverse stripes, the posterior one distally bordered with grey; the ring-macula 
is longitudinally elliptical, often connected with the reniform macula; undulate line grey, dentate, crossed 
by dark streaks on the veins; hindwing brown, with white fringes. Colorado to California. 
A. limenia Drc. (10 a) is a very different large species without any similar allies. Of an ochreous, limenia. 
reddish or purple brown, very conspicuous by the jet-black, comma-like small spot at the base and the whitish, 
dark-marked reniform macula. Known from Mexico and Guatemala. 
A. trisignata Maass. is on the head and thorax greyish-brown like on the forewing, with a wedge- irisignata. 
shaped black basal spot and very indistinct transverse lines; the ring-macula is small, elliptical, above open; 
the reniform macula only distally sharply defined, before and between both the cell is black. Hindwing light 
grey, with darker veins, at the margin brownish. Expanse of wings: 34 mm; from Ecuador. 
A. glottuloides Btlr. (10 a) is blackish-brown, in the inner-marginal part brightened by a yellowish glottuloides. 
grey, with a black and grey basal ray; transverse lines indistinct, the posterior line dentate; maculae indistinctly 
white and encircled with black. Hindwing white with a mother-of-pearl lustre, on the veins and margin brownish- 
grey. Described from Chile. 
A. repleta Wkr. (= ypsilon Drc. pro parte) (9 h, i) is a large species with narrow wings, with very repleta. 
characteristic markings and recalling the group of Feltia malefida. Reddish yellowish-grey with very sharply 
dentate double transverse lines, small maculae encircled with black and connected by a streak; before the 
undulate line black sagittae and a large subapical spot. Hindwing diaphanous white, at the costal and proximal 
margins brown. The $ is dusted dark brown below and behind the cell. Mexico to Brazil. 
14. Genus: Metalepsis Grt. 
Chiefly distinguished from Agrotis by the eyes being provided with long cilia; frons and vertex exhibit 
small hair-tufts, the collar shows a slight hood-shaped central ridge; the abdomen has lateral long hair-tufts. 
The A antennae have short pinnae. All the rest agrees with Agrotis. Only 3 species: 
M. cornuta Grt. (10 c). Thorax and forewing purple reddish brown with a contrastingly dirty white cornuta. 
head and collar, the latter with a brown central line; costal margin and marginal area are dusted with lilac 
grey; the fine single transverse lines are bordered with grey; maculae in whitish rings and dusted whitish, con¬ 
fluent ; undulate line proximally bordered with brown, with dark streaks on the veins. Hindwing purple brownish. 
California. 
M. cerphiphila Dyar is light yellowish with white veins, and with black small stripes subcostally, in the cerphiphila. 
cell and below it; the veins behind the cell towards the margin more black-striped and with a broader stripe 
above the inner-marginal vein. Hindwing dusted blackish with lighter fringes. Thorax with blackish hair. 
Expanse of wings: 29 mm. From Peru (Coropuna), taken in October at an altitude of 14 500 ft. 
M. fuegensis Hmps. has greyish-white forewings being dusted reddish brown in the spaces between fuegensis. 
the veins, except the costal part remaining light; the veins are black-striped and, except the marginal area 
on both sides bordered with grey; in the basal area there are 3 black rays; transverse lines extinct; below the 
small white maculae there is a black stripe, the ring-macula is oblong elliptical, the reniform macula a minute 
luna; behind the upper cell-angle is a black streak, and in the subterminal area there are small black spots. 
Hind wing brownish-grey with white fringes. Expanse of wings: 30 mm. Fuegia. 
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