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Agrotis choris, n. s. 



£ . Hind wings pellucid white, a little stained ; veins marked. Fore 

 wings uniform dull gray ; veins obsoletely marked. T. a. line geminate, 

 denticulate, fine, black. Orbicular black ringed, small, rather elongate. 

 Reniform narrow, curved : claviform obsoletely indicated. T. p. line 

 obsolete, marked on the veins. S. t. line faint, near the margin : terminal 

 line black, interrupted ; fringes concolorous. Antennae brush-like ; head 

 and thorax like fore wings : palpi darker at the sides. 



Expanse 36 m. m. Nevada, No. 2626, Coll. Mr. Hy. Edwards. 



Agrotis Sierra?, //. s. 



£ . Allied to haruspica ; differs by the paler secondaries and more 

 slender habit. Body and fore wings uniformly fuscous ; lines black 

 illegible. Both stigmata present ; orbicular rounded ; reniform elongate 

 lunate. Hind wings beneath with discal mark and shade line ; above 

 immaculate, pale, pellucid, fuscous. Abdomen as dark as thorax. 



Expanse 45 m. m. No. 2623, Sierra Nevada, CaL; Mr. Hy. Edwards 

 Coll. I regret that I have not been able to compare this form with the 

 European augur. 



Agrotis rtxula, )i. s. 



% . The smallest species of the group of 4-deniata and cicatricosa. 

 Hind wings white, soiled with fuscous. Fore wings nearly black, with a 

 yellowish stripe from the base outwardly below costa to above the pro- 

 minent yellow stigmata. Orbicular spherical ; reniform of the usual 

 shape, rather broad, approximate to the dotted t. p. line. A splash of 

 yellowish below median vein to the s. t. line, which is black dotted, 

 followed by yellow with two yellow teeth to veins 3 and 4. Beneath 

 whitish with the spots reflected on primaries. 



Two specimens. Oregon, No. 5969, Mr. Hy. Edwards' Coll. 



Agrotis pyrophiloides \ n. s. 



A species with slender body and wide wings, and looking like a 

 Pyropkila, but with spinose hind tibiae. Greasy ; fuscous and dirty 

 ochre, with wavy blackish lines. Orbicular of the ochreous ground 

 color, concolorous, rounded ; median shade blackish, heavy ; reniform 

 concolorous ; t. p. line geminate, with pale included space, denticulate. 

 Costal dots distinct on the blackish subterminal space. A terminal 

 festooned ochreous line, cutting the black line at base of fringes. In one 



