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no existence in nature. The chr3'^salis also is badly done, and instead of 

 the broad bevelled ridge at top of head case, we see a square flat-topped 

 process, much like a wooden plug driven into the head. 



NORTH AMERICAN MOTHfe. 



BY A. R. GROTE. 



(Continued from Page 258, vol. xu.) 



GraphipJiora agrotiformis, n, j. 



$ . This form reminds one of Agrotis collaris or vtrsipellis. Eyes 

 hairy ; tibite unarmed ; tuftings obsolete. Fore wings blackish brown to 

 the continuous, black, upright, uneven subterrainal line ; beyond with the 

 fringes brownish. Median lines geminate, faint. Orbicular round, paler 

 than the wing ; reniform moderate, outwardly excavate, upright, pale- 

 ringed with dark centre ; the cell between the spots black-shaded ; the 

 stigmata are comparatively small. No trace of the claviform.. Hind 

 wings pale brownish fuscous, concolorous ; fringes a little lighter and more 

 reddish. Beneath secondaries paler, with discal dot and uneven exterior 

 line ; fore wings dark fuscous to terminal space, which is pale with the 

 fringes dark. Head and thorax like thefore wings; collar a little paler. 

 Body rather slender ; costa of primaries a little depressed centrally. 

 Colorado ; expands 34 mil. Differs from the described species quite 

 strongly ; from Maniestra by the untufted body parts. 



Heliophila oxygala, u. s. 



Allied to pallensr Fore wings light yellowish ochrey ; the interspaces 

 beyond the cell and below the median vein indeterminately shaded with 

 blackish. The veins paler ; a small black dot at the end of the cell 

 alongside of the median vein. The outer line reduced to a small black 

 dot on vein 2 and vein 5. Fringes concolorous. Hind wings blackish 

 fuscous, a little paler at base ; fringes pale. Beneath both wings shaded 

 with fuscous, leaving the costa of primaries and the fringes pale. Breast 

 shaded with fuscous ; thorax and abdomen yellowish ochrey. This 

 species is more yellowish than pallens, with the fore wings shaded with 



