282 HETEROCERA. 
Noctua equa, Hiibn. Samml. Europ. Schmett. t. 171. £.812; Godart, Hist. Nat. Lép. Fr. v. p. 258, 
t. 69. f. 3. 
Agrotis equa, Steph. Ill. Brit. Ent., Haust. ii. p. 115. 
Agrotis ambrosioides, Walk. Cat. xi. p. 738°; Butl. Trans. Ent. Soc. Lond. 1882, p. 126. 
Spelotis stictica, Blanch. in Gay’s Hist. fisica y polit. de Chile, Zool. vii. p. 73, Atlas, t. 6. fig.8 °. 
Agrotis impacta, Walk. Cat. x. p. 8337‘; Butl. Trans. Ent. Soc. Lond. 1882, p. 126. 
Agrotis inermis, Harris, Treatise Ins. New Engl. p. 323 (1842) ; Treatise on some Insects injurious 
to Vegetation, Flint’s edit. p. 444 (1862) ; Grote, List of North-American Moths, p. 26 (1882). 
Agrotis ortonii, Pack. First Annual Report of the Peabody Acad. of Science, p. 63 (1869) ; Grote, 
List of North-American Moths, p. 26. 
Noctua margaritosa, Haw. Lep. Brit. p. 218. 
Hab. Norta Amertca.—Mexico, Northern Sonora (Morrison), Milpas in Durango 
5900 feet (Forrer), Jalapa, Mexico city (Hége), Cuesta de Misantla (Jf. Trujillo), 
Coatepec (Brooks); Guatemata, Purula (Champion); Costa Rica (van Patten), Volcan 
de Irazu 6000 to 7000 feet, Rio Sucio (Rogers); Panama, Volcan de Chiriqui (Ribde, 
mus. Staudinger).—Co.LomBiIA!; VENEZUELA®’; Braziu!, Rio Janeiro’; ARGENTINE 
REPUBLIC; Cuiti? °.—Evurope!4; Asta Minor*; MaApDEIRA 2. 
This species is common in our country, and varies very considerably in colour. I 
agree with Mr. Butler in regarding 4. ambrosioides, Walker, S. stictica, Blanch., and 
A. impacta, Walker, as nothing more than colour-varieties of A. saucia. Specimens 
agreeing with the types of these so-called species occur in almost all the localities 
mentioned, whence we have also received numerous intermediate forms. Mr. Butler 
remarks ? that the secondaries of the variety A. ambrosioides have the borders and veins 
dark brown: the Chilian specimens collected by Mr. T. Edmonds are darker in this 
respeci, but others from Mexico with similarly-coloured primaries have the secondaries 
much paler. Our examples vary greatly in size, those from South-east Brazil and 
the Argentine Republic, as a rule, being the smallest. 
8, Agrotis malefida. 
Agrotis malefida, Guénée, Sp. gén. des Lép. v. p. 267°; Walk. Cat. x. p. 328°; Grote, List of 
North-American Moths, p. 25 (1882). 
Agrotis consueta, Walk. Cat. x. p. 334°, 
Hab. NortH America}, Kast Florida *.—Mexico, Presidio (Forrer), Patzcuaro (F. 
D. G.), Mexico city (Hoge, F. D. G.), Jalapa (I. Trujillo), Coatepec (Brooks) ; Costa 
Rica, Volcan de Irazu 6000 to 7000 feet (Rogers).—VENEZUELA °. 
We have received eleven specimens from Central America; these agree well with 
others from North America in Mr. Grote’s collection now in the British Museum. 
A. malefida varies considerably in colour, some specimens having the primaries much 
greyer than others. dA. consueta, Walk., is based upon a pale form of the same 
Species, 
