CATALOGUE OF NOCTUID^E SMITH. 53 



The type in the British Museum is like the species knowu to me 

 under this name, and is not the same as cupida. 



R. variata Girt.* 



1876. Grt., Bull. Buff. Soc. Nat. Sci., in, 83. PI. 4. f. 12, Agrolis 

 1883. Grfc., Proc. Am. Phil. Soc., xxi, 155, Agroiix. 

 1889. Butler, Trans. Ent. Soc. Loud., 382=i)hyUplto>-a. 



varix Grt. 

 1876. Grt., Bull. Buff. Soc. Nat. Sci., in, 83, an var. pr. ? 



1889. Butler, Trans. Ent. Soc. Loud., 382=plr!/llophora. 

 orbis Grt. 



1876. Grt., Bull. Buff. Soc. Nat. Sci., in, 83, Agrotis. 



1878. Grt., Bull. Geol. Surv., iv, 174, Agrotis. 



1883. Grt.. Proc. Am. Phil. Soc., xxi, 155= ? cupidissima. 



1890. Smith, Bull. U. S. Nat. Mus., No. 38, 2i = cupidissima. 



HABITAT. Colorado; New Mexico; Nevada; Arizona; California; 

 Vancouver; Glenwood Springs, Colorado, in September and October. 



Types of each of these names are in the British Museum. Mr. Grote's 

 remarks on his orbis thoroughly misled me, and I referred the name to 

 cupidissima. As a matter of fact, the type of orbis is simply variata 

 without the bluish scales, and one of the specimens labeled by Mr. 

 Grote is typical variata. The specimens of variata in the collections 

 U. S. National Museum are like the type. 



R. alternata Grt.* 



1864. Grt., Proc. Ent. Soc. Phil., in. 526, PI. 5, f. 8, Nocttia. 



1869. Grt., Trans. Am. Ent. Soc., n, 309, Agrotis. 



1874. Grt., Can. Enfc., vi, 15, Ccraslis. 



1874. Grt., Can. Ent., vi, 214, Agrotis. 



1878. Grt., Can. Ent., x, 235, Agrotis. 



1883. Grt., Proc. Am. Pnil. Soc., xxi, 155, Agrotis. 



1889. Butler, Trans. Ent. Soc. Lond., 3$2=phyllopliora. 



HABITAT. Canada, July to September; Middle and Northern At- 

 lantic States, west to the Mississippi; Colorado; District of Columbia 

 in June; New York in July and August; Illinois in September. 



The type is in the collection of the American Entomological Society, 

 and the species is well and correctly known to collectors generally. 



R. belfragei Smith." 



1890. Smith, Bull. U. S. Nat. Mus.. No. 38, 20, El\yiu-l\ayrotls. 



HABITAT. Texas. March to June. 



The type is in collections U. S, National Museum. 



R. trigona Smith" n. sp. 



cupidissima t Smith. 

 1890. Smith. Bull. U. S. Nat. Mus., No. 38, 24, mynclni/rotis. 



HABITAT. California: Oregon; Colorado; Arizona; Kansas; British 

 Columbia; Glen wood Springs, Colorado, in August. 



