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ordinary spots are moderate, blackish, very finely ochre-rii)ged. 

 Minute white and black points on the veins be^'ond the t. p. line. 

 Hind wings fuscous, paler at base, and allowing the distinct discal 

 mark of the under surface to be perceived. Under surface blackish, 

 hind wings partly whitish, with a narrow common line accented 

 on the veins. 



Expanse 28 mm. Habitat. Albany (O. Meske). 



A dark species with silk}' wings, resembling an Orthodes. 



Agrotis innotabilis, n. s. 



This well-marked species resembles, at first sight, A. bicar^nea 

 and A. c. nigrum from the Atlantic States, but differs l)y its 

 smaller size, and the absence of any carneous costal shades on the 

 fore wings. Blackish ; the collar is pale at base, and verj'' broadly 

 banded with deep black superiorly. Fore wings with the trans- 

 verse lines narrow, continued, geminate, accompanied by narrow, 

 pale shades. Orbicular small, spherical, lying in a deep black 

 discal shade preceding and following it ; reniform moderate, dis- 

 colorous, ochraceous, distinct, of the usual shape with distinct 

 internal ring ; fringes blackish. Hind wings blackish fuscous, 

 paler at base. Beneath paler with a purplj^ tinge ; a faint, narrow 

 common line, a little irregular on secondaries, and discal dots. 

 Body parts blackish. 



Expanse 33 mm. Habitat. Saucelito, Cal., Aug. 25th (Mr. 

 Behrens, No. 160j. 



I cannot observe the armatureof the fore tibife in my t3'pe with- 

 out breaking the specimen. It probably does not differ in this 

 respect from its allies. 



Agrotis euroides, u. s. 



%. A rather stout species, resembling at first sight some of the 

 gray forms of Ilamestra or Eurois. All the tibioe spinose. An- 

 tennse strong!}' pectinate, long, the pectinations decreasing to the 

 tips. Whitisli-gra}-. Collar shaded with black at the base, with 

 a black line. Palpi black at the sides of 2d joint; terminal joint 

 black near the socket. Primaries whitish-gray, with the costal 

 edge tinged with carneous. The transverse lines are more broadly 

 marked in black on the costal region, below which they are indis- 

 tinct. The lunulate median shade is tinged with ferruginous or 

 ochre below the reniform. Ordinary- spots large, concolorous, 

 black ringed, with black internal marking, lying in a blackish- 



