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the broad black border on the collar is absent; transverse lines velvety black, double, the space between them 
somewhat lighter, but the costal part hardly lighter than the other ground of the wing. Washington, Idaho, 
California. — f. meta Sm. is distinguished by the contrastingly reddish-brown discal area, whereas the other 
ground-colour exhibits more slate- or lead-coloured tints; the undulate line is yellowish, before it red-brown 
shading; the cell is not filled up with black. — f. emarginata Grt. (= inelegans Sm., faculana Strd.) (12 i) has 
a deep purple brown or blackish-brown ground-colour, the collar not bordered with black and the cell not filled 
up with black. This form with broad wings originates from California. —- f. carissima Harv. (12 i) has brighter 
red-brown, broad forewings being tinted purple towards the margin, in the typical form with a yellowish undulate 
line and fine black veins; transverse lines double, filled up with a somewhat lighter colour. — f. cupidissima 
Grt. (12 i) is a form of medium or large size with a peculiarly black-speckled strewing, like ,,pepper and salt“, 
on the real ground-colour, without the black border of the collar, with two smaller subordinate forms, one of 
which, f. laetula Grt. (12 i), has no black filling of the cell, whilst in the other, ab. distracta Sm., the cell is before 
and between the maculae filled up with black or at least dark. In all the 3 forms the ring-macula is U-shaped, 
above open. Washington, Oregon, California. — f. rnorrisonistigma (= binominalis Sm., crenulata Sm.) (12 k) 
has dark brown forewings, in the basal and subterminal areas somewhat lighter, dusted with grey, with a distinctly 
lighter reddish-brown costal area and collar, the latter being broadly bordered with black; the upper maculae are 
dusted with grey in a black ground of the cell, the coniform macula is bordered with yellowish; the transverse 
lines are distinctly double, filled up with a lighter colour. From California. The light brown, darker watered 
larva with narrow lighter dorsal and subdorsal lines and alternately light and black oblique lateral spots lives 
polyphagous on low plants. 
L. cupida Grt. (= velata Wkr.) (12 k) is a very common and just as variable species which is evi¬ 
dently also in a stage of development. Forewing narrow, oblong, with a peculiar silky lustre; the colour is 
extremely variable from a light yellowish through red-brown tints to deep purple and almost black, the latter 
dark purple brown form being separated as f. brursneipennis Grt. The maculae are large, blackish, bordered with 
reddish, the transverse lines darker, indistinct; the subterminal space is somewhat darkened, the undulate 
line itself inside at the costal margin marked darker. From Canada and the Central States. 
L. belfragei Sm. (12 k). This large species (expanse of wings: 40 nun) is only known from Texas;by 
the slight silky lustre it somewhat recalls cupida ; the ground-colouring varies from a loamy yellowish to dark 
red-brown, more or less dusted; all the transverse lines are double, the undulate line begins at the costal margin 
with a deeper black spot, proximally mostly bordered by a somewhat darker shade; the maculae are distinct, 
surrounded by a somewhat lighter colour; but the marking may also be quite indistinct. 
L. anchocelioides Gn. (12 k) is allied to cupida, but it is without any lustre on the dull-coloured wings, 
which are narrower and somewhat more quadrangular; the posterior transverse line and the undulate line are 
closer together, whereby the darker band enclosed by the two lines becomes very narrow; the maculae small, 
the ring-macula is round; the W of the undulate line is but very flat. Canada. 
L. brunneicollis Grt. (13 c) has grey forewings more or less dusted with reddish-brown, with distinct, 
darker, though interrupted double transverse lines. Maculae large, in darker rings. The forewing contrasts 
very much with the dark brown head and collar. Central States to Colorado. 
L. rufipectus Morr. (12 k) is very much like brunneicollis, but easily discernible by the single trans¬ 
verse lines. The head is likewise dark brown, the chest conspicuously red-brown, the thorax and forewing more 
lilac-grey, scantily strewn with red-brown. The subterminal area is suffused with blackish. Canada to California 
and Arizona. The larva is lighter and watered with a darker brown, laterally more greenish with oblique dark 
subdorsal streaks; it lives on grass. The unknown L. hero Morr. probably belongs to one of these two latter 
species. 
meta. 
emarginata. 
carissima. 
cupidissi- 
laeiula. 
distracta. 
morrison i- 
stigma. 
cupida. 
brunneipen- 
nis. 
belfragei. 
ancliocelioi- 
des. 
brunneicol- 
lis. 
rufipectus. 
hero. 
34. Genus: Crypfoeala Benj. 
It comprises the species with yellow, black-banded hindwings. Otherwise the markings agree with 
Lampra, except the abdomen not being flattened, but round, cylindrical. The 2nd palpal joint is scaled, the 
terminal joint bare. The hitherto prevailing name Rhynchagrotis Hmps. is untenable, because the type of 
it is cupida. 
C. gilvipennis Grt. (13 a) is the sole American species with yellow hindwings, of a delicate structure, gilvipennis. 
the forewing varying from a reddish ochreous colour to a greyish brown with blackish single transverse lines, 
a very oblique ring-macula which reaches below to the reniform macula or is confluent with it. Canada to 
New York. 
35. Genus: Eueretagrotis Sm. 
Distinguished from the preceding genus chiefly by the 2nd palpal joint being in front very hairy; 
the prothorax and metathorax exhibit loose tufts, the abdomen is roughly haired at its base. Only 4 American 
species: 
