CATALOGUE OF NOCTUID.E SMITH. 59 



type only is in the British Museum; Mr. G rote's type is in the Dr. 

 Bailey collection at Albany; Mr. Morrison's type is in the Graef col- 

 lection. 



P. pressa Grt." 



1874. Grt., Trans. Am. Ent. Soc., v, 90, Enrols. 



1875. Grt., Check List, pi. I, f. 7, Enrols. 



1882. Grt., New List, 26, Agrotis. 



HABITAT. Canada in July; Massachusetts in June; New York in 

 July and August. Northern, Eastern, Middle, and Central States. 



The type specimen in the British Museum is like the examples repre 

 seuting this species in American collections. 



P. condita Gii.* 



1852. Gii., Sp. Gen., Noct., n, 78, pi. 8, f. 5, Aplecta. 

 1857. Wlk., C. B. Mus., Met., xi, 556, Enrols. 



1874. Grt., Bull. Baft'. Soc. Nat. Sci., n, 12, Mamcxtra. 



1881. Grt., Can. Ent., xm, 127, (transl. desc.). 



1891. Smith, Proc. U. S. Nat. Mus., xiv, 270, 1=trabaUa. 



trabalis Grt. 

 1877. Grt., Can. Ent., ix, 198, Agrotis. 



HABITAT. Massachusetts in June; Canada; Middle, Eastern, and 

 Northern States. 



Guene"e's type, as I suspected, is like Mr. Grote's species, the type of 

 the latter being with Dr. Thaxter, in whose collection I have seen it. 



P. sincera H.-Sch. 

 1851. H.-Sch., Eur. Schmett., n, 412, Agrotia. 



HABITAT. Labrador. 



P. imperita Him.* 



1823. Hbn., Zutraege, ff., 447, 448, Ogi/gia. 

 1857. Wlk., C. B. Mus., Het., x, 333, Agrotis. 

 1880. Grt., Can. Eut., xn, 118, Agrotis. 



1883. Moeschl., Stett. Ent. Zeit., xi.iv, 117, Agrotis. 

 comparata Moeschl. 



1862. Moeschl., Wien. Ent. Monatschr., vi, 131, pi. i, f. 5, Agrotis. 



1875. Grt., Check List, 6, pr. syn. 



1883. Moeschl., Stett. Ent. Zeit., XLIV, 117, pr. syn. 



saxigena Morr. 

 1874. Morr., Proc. Bost. Soc. N. H., xvn, 162, Agrotia. 



1882. Grt., New List, 24, pr. syn. 

 discitincta Wlk. 



1856. Wlk., C. B. Mus., Het.,ix, 27, Bryophila. 

 1874. Grt., Bull. Buff. Soc. Nat. Sci., n, 8, Jaspidla. 

 1882. Grt., 111. Essay, 40, lAgrotis. 

 1891. Butler, Entomologist, xxiv, 238, pr. syn. 



HABITAT. H. B. Terr.; Labrador; mountains of Northern and Mid- 

 dle States. 



