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Agrotis hilaris, n. s. 



£ . Concolorous silky blackish gray with a sprinkling of paler scales. 

 Antennae rather lengthily bipectinate. Head, collar and thorax con- 

 colorous, collar a little darker tipped ; palpi darker at the sides. Only 

 the two median lines visible ; these are even, pale, the inner line oblique, 

 the outer somewhat bent, nearly straight, not inflected. A black spot on 

 the cell against the inner line, and a second, quadrate, larger, at the 

 middle. These black spots follow and precede the orbicular, which, with 

 the reniform. is concolorous with the wing and difficult to make out. The 

 orbicular is v-shaped, open above ; the reniform small, upright, medially 

 constricted ; both spots indistinctly pale-ringed. A small black spot on 

 the line indicates the claviform. Median lines slightly marked with black 

 on costa. Fringes concolorous. Hind wings blackish, paler at base ; 

 fringes pale, interlined. Beneath both wings blackish, with pale irror- 

 ations ; a common extra mesial shade line. Expanse 34 mil. Texas, 

 Mr. Boll. 



Resembles in color and markings collaris, but the collar is concolorous, 

 antennae pectinate, the species is stouter. By the pectinate antennae 

 allied to badinodis ; the primaries are narrower, the color is different, the 

 lines are pale and the inner more oblique, the collar is not distinctly dark 

 above. The species has a slightly hoary aspect from the admixture of 

 pale scales. 



Agrotis steliaris, //. s. 



$ . Varies in color from blackish to reddish purple nearly as bright 

 as phyllophora. Collar yellowish white, discolorous with head and thorax. 

 Palpi with pale third article. Reniform kidney-shaped, yellowish white, 

 discolorous. Orbicular rounded, somewhat irregular and slightly oblique, 

 nearly concolorous with the wing, a little shaded with yellowish ; both 

 spots annulate with dark. Lines single, blackish ; half-line indicated ; 

 t. a. line waved ; t. p. line lunulate, followed by a pale shade against 

 which the darker veins and faint cloudy pointlets of the line contrast ; 

 s. t. line inaugurated by a diffuse shade on costa, below which the line is 

 exserted and followed by pale points. Hind wings pale, soiled or fuscous- 

 shaded, with terminal line. Beneath with discal marks and common line. 

 Expanse 34 mil. Hab. Wash. T. (darker specimens, Mr. E. L. Graef) ; 

 Nevada (reddish specimens, Mr. Neumogen). 



