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ABAGROTIS. By Dr. M. Draudt. 
elimata. M. elimata Gn. (12 e) is purple grey, dusted with red-brown, with brownish transverse lines edged 
with grey, the posterior line being dentate, with large, hardly lighter maculae finely encircled with black, and 
badicolli. s', a black streak as far as the reniform macula. Hindwing brownish-grey. — badicollis Grt. is greyer with more 
janualis. intense black markings and the cell-end often filled up with black. — In janualis Grt. (= dilucida Morr.) the 
black streak is absent in the cell, the ground-colour is somewhat lighter, more reddish. Canada, United States. 
tenebrifera. M. tenebrifera Wkr. (= catherina Grt., manifestolabes Morr.) (12 e) has ferruginous forewings strewn 
with dark, with indistinct darker transverse lines, the posterior line being dentate; the maculae are somewhat 
strewn with whitish, encircled by a scarcely darker tint; there are only traces of the undulate line. Hindwing 
light reddish-brown. Canada, United States. 
yritsatra. M. grisatra 8m. resembles elimata (12 e) in the shape of the wings, but it is much more uniformly grey 
and has almost black hind wings; the smoky-grey ground of the forewing is dusted with a bluish grey; the basal 
ray is absent, the transverse lines are fine black, beginning with thick costal-marginal spots; the light maculae 
are situate in the dark-smoked ground of the cell. Expanse of wings: 39 mm. New Jersey. 
atoma. M. atoma 8m. is the smallest species of the genus. Forewing light red-brown, very much dusted 
with grey and strewn with black, with scarcely marked or entirely extinct markings, the transverse lines mostly 
being only marked by costal-marginal streaks; undulate line marked by somewhat darker proximal shading; 
the ring-macula is large and so is the reniform macula, both being scantily surrounded by black scales; hindwing 
smoky brownish with pink fringes. Expanse of wings: 29 to 34 mm. From New Jersey. 
indetcrmi- M. indetenniiiata Wkr. (== washingtoniensis Grt.) (12 f). Forewing reddish-brown suffused with a 
mdu. c { ar fc er tint, with a black basal ray and an anterior double and a posterior single dentate transverse line; ring- 
macula grey, reniform macula of a conspicuous yellowish white in a black ground of the cell; the coniform macula 
is connected with the postmedian line being dentate like a W; a subterminal row of small black and white sagittae. 
innolabilis. Hindwing greyish-brown, towards the base lighter. Canada, Washington. — innotabilis Grt. from California 
has the ring-macula more U-shaped, and the coniform macula is not connected with the postmedian line. 
stcllaris. M. stellaris Grt. (12 e) is similar though without the black basal ray, the forewing is more purple grey 
dusted with a claret-like colour; both the upper maculae are yellowish-white, the cell between them is less 
deep black; an undulate median line is present; the whitish undulate line exhibits black dusting towards the 
base. Hindwing brownish-grev. Washington, Nevada. 
apposita. M. apposita Grt. (12 e). Forewing dull red-brown, dusted with a dark brownish grey; anterior trans¬ 
verse line double, undulate; the discal area of a lighter red-brown with a faded darker median shade; maculae 
dusted somewhat reddish, the undulate line indistinctly lighter. Hindwing brownish-grey. Canada to Cali¬ 
fornia. 
quarta. M. quarta Grt. (12 e). Reddish greyish-brown with the same markings as in the preceding, the posterior 
transverse line indistinct, pointedly dentate on the veins; maculae of a yellowish white, the reniform macula 
scaled orange-red, the cell between them darkened, not black; undulate line whitish, proximally with black 
dots. Hindwing light brown. California. 
prasina. M. prasina F. (= herbacea) Gn. (Vol. Ill, t. 14 a) is the well-known species with olive-green mar¬ 
kings being also widely distributed in the palearctic region (Vol. Ill, p. 60) and being just as variable in America 
as in Europe. It is found in Canada and the United States (Massachusetts, New York, Iowa, Colorado). The 
violettish-brown, darker spotted larva lives polyphagous on low plants. 
32. Genus: Afoagrotis 8m. 
This group of but 3 species can only be regarded as a subordinate genus of the following, since it merely 
differs by the serrate $ antennae provided with ciliary tufts and by a somewhat keel-shaped or ridge-shaped 
protuberance on the collar and prothorax. 
erratica. A. erratica 8m. (12 f) exhibits decidedly reddish-brownish dusting on its ash-grey or more straw- 
coloured or brick-reddish ground. The marking is rather the same in all these species, here generally little con¬ 
trasting with the ground-colour, but it may also be distinctly contrasting; the maculae are in somewhat grey 
rings, mostly of the colour of the ground, the reniform macula in its lower end pupiHed blackish; the undulate line 
is lighter and is somewhat more prominent owing to a darker shade before it. Hindwing brownish-grey, towards 
ortmtus. the base lighter. California. — omatus 8m. exhibits a uniformly ash-grey ground-colour with more distinctly 
prominent , blacker transverse lines, the maculae being filled up with ferruginous or reddish brown. Probably 
a northern race of erratica from British Columbia and Idaho. 
alcandoln. A. alcandola 8m. (= tristis B. <£■ McD.) is on the whole somewhat larger than the preceding, and 
the upper maculae are somewhat larger, too; the ground-colour seems to be less variable, of a very monotonous 
