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tween basal and t. a. line below the vein. Thorax red-brown ; 

 collar at base ochreous. Transverse median lines on fore wing 

 sub-obsolete. This species is broader winged than introferens, 

 and very like perexcellens, Grote, from the Pacific coast, differing 

 by the shorter claviform, the more ochrey hue, and apparently by 

 the less prominent lunulations of the t. p. line. 



Expanse 38 to 40 mm. Canada, Mr. Geo. Norman. 



Mr. Morrison has sent me a specimen under this name that I 

 refer to this species. His brief description cannot possibly be 

 used to identify the species. Compare Bost. Proc. 1874, p. 164. 



Agrotis gularis, n. s. 



%. Possibly a form of cinereomacula. Antenna? feebly brush- 

 like. Seems to be a shorter winged and stouter species. Anterior 

 wings and thorax entirely unicolorous shining purplish reel-brown. 

 Stigmata interlined with pale powdery scales, defined by black 

 annul i, concolorous, of the usual shape. A black dash below 

 median vein, which extends from base to t. a. line, the latter 

 fragmentary. Cell shaded with blackish. Claviform black out- 

 lined, short, and sharp. T. p. line obsolete. Terminal space 

 blackish stained, and there is a preapical deeper costal shade 

 before the inception of the s. t. line. Hind wings smoky fuscous ; 

 fringes dark. Beneath with lunule, subirrorate, and darker than 

 in the preceding species. 



Expanse 35 mm. Canada, Mr. Geo. Norman, No. 381. 



Agrotis haruspica, Grote. 



Mr. Morrison (Proc. Acad. Nat. Sci. Phila. 1875, 59) says that 

 I am in "error" with regard to the name unimacula, proposed for 

 this species by himself, that it is not preoccupied in the genus, 

 "the name is used by Dr. Staudinger for a simple variety of the 

 common A.plecta, Linn." Mr. Morrison seems to be unacquainted 

 with the discussion carried on in the Wiener Eut. Monatschrift by 

 Ledcrer with respect to the Andalusian A. unimacula, Staud. 

 Lederer regarded the Spanish species as a form of leucogaster, 

 not plecta : on the other hand, Staudinger cites it with doubt in 

 his last Catalogue as a variety of plecta, considering it still to 

 have claims to rank as a species, as which he at first described it. 

 In no event, whether for a species or a variety, could the same 

 name be used twice in the same genus. In a difficult matter, like 

 that of unimacula, Staud., a statement from Mr. Morrison, without 



