84 BULLETIN 44, UNITED STATES NATIONAL MUSEUM. 



Grote's figure in the illustrated essay. This is utterly incorrect in 

 color, and not at all a fair representation of the species, which does not 

 differ from ceneipennis. I would not be very greatly surprised if van- 

 couverensis and ceneipennis should prove forms of one very variable 

 species. 



F. volubilia Harv.* 



1874. Harv., Bull. Buff. Soc, Nat. Sci., n, 118, Agrotis. 

 stiymosa Morr. 



1874. Morr., Proc. Bost. Soc. N. H., xvn, 163, Agrotis. 

 1890. Smith, Bull. U. S. Nat. Mas., No. 38, 121, pr. syn. 



HABITAT. United States and Canada; Northern and Eastern States 

 in June and September; California in June ; Portland, Oregon, May 

 and June. 



These two species are kept separated in the British Museum, extreme 

 forms only being represented. Neither of the specimens seems to be 

 a type. I do not know where Dr. Harvey's type is. Types of Mr. Mor- 

 rison's species are in the Tepper and Neumoegen collections. 



F. annexa Tr.* 



1825. Tr., Schmett. Eur., v, 154, Agrotis. 



1829. Steph., 111. Br. Ent. Haust., II, 117, pi. 22, f. 2, Agrotis. 



1856. Wlk., C. B. Mus., Het., x, 328, Agrotis. 



1852. Gn., Sp. Geii., Noct., I, 268, Ayrotis. 



1882. French, Can. Ent., xiv, 207, life history. 



1889. Butler, Trans. Ent. Soc. Lond., 1889, 378, Agrotis. 



decent ens Wlk. 



1856. Wlk., C. B. Mu.s., Het., x, 333, Agrotis. 

 1889. Butler, Trans. Ent. Soc. Lond., 1889, 378, Agrotis. 



HABITAT. Massachusetts in September; New York, July and Au- 

 gust; south and west to Florida; Texas, March and December; Cali- 

 fornia in October ; South America. 



The type of Walker's species is in the British Museum. Mr. Butler 

 also cites anteposita Gn., Noct., I, 278, as a synonym, and perhaps cor- 

 rectly so. I have not seen a typical example, and as the species is de- 

 scribed from South America, deemed it of insufficient importance to 

 warrant much search. There is a considerable South and Central 

 American bibliography to this species which it is not necessary to give 

 here. 



F. malefida Gn.* 



1852. Gn., Sp. Gen., Noct., I, 267, Agrotis. 

 1856. Wlk., C. B. Mus., Het., x, 328, Ayrotis. 



1875. Harv., Bull. Buff. Soc. Nat. Sci. ; in, 5, Agrotis. 



HABITAT. Long Island, New York; New Jersey; south and west 

 to Cuba and California; Florida in March; Texas, November and 

 December. 



The type is in the British Museum and proves the species correctly 

 named in American collections. 



