THE CANADIAN ENTOMOLOGIST. 131 



NEW NOCTUIIM<:, WITH LIST OF THE SPECIES OF 



PERIGRAPHA. 



BY A. R. GROTE. 



Agrotis nanalis, n. s. 



5 . The smallest species known to me. All the tibiae spinose ; eyes 

 naked ; body untufted. A slender species- wliich may be compared with 

 opaca. The fore wings are blackish with the lines lost. The stigmata are 

 concolorous, difificult to make out. The orbicular is elongate, the reni- 

 form vague, upright, broad ; the spots are picked out by a brown shading 

 which fills the cell and marks the subcostal and median veins. S. t. line 

 a vague blackish even shade. Hind wings concolorous fuscous griseous, 

 with the veins soiled and a faint discal mark. Beneath griseous, the pri- 

 maries a little brownish. The costal preapical dots visible beneath and to 

 be made out on the upper surface. Abdomen like hind wings. Head 

 brownish ; tegulje blackish, disc of thorax paler. Expanse 26 mil. 

 Nevada. 



Agrotis esiiriali's, n. s. 



This species has all the tibiae spinose. In color it is like percoiiflua^ 

 being of a pale ruddy brown over ochrey. The stigmata are concolorous, 

 and as in Nor)na?iiana, set in a black spot. The orbicular nearly touches 

 the reniform inferiorly, leaving a blackish brown v-shaped space between 

 the stigmata. The orbicular is open to costa, oblique, widening above, 

 preceded by a narrow black shade on the cell. Reniform widening in- 

 feriorly, constricted, upright. Lines dark ; t. a. line single, marked on 

 costa above the orbicular, sinuate, incomplete. T. p. line indicated by 

 venular dots, as also the s. t. line, which is followed by a faint narrow pale 

 shade and is inaugurated on costa by a curved mark. The species seems 

 to belong to the series of nibifera^ penonflua, Hilliana, coiichis, Normani- 

 ana. Hind wings pale fuscous with the fringes and outer edge colored 

 like primaries. Head a little paler than thorax, with the palpi darker at 

 the sides. Abdomen at the sides and beneath tinged with rosy brown. 

 Wings beneath tinged with ruddy, especially on the margins and outside 

 of the extra-mesial fuscous line. Discal marks indicated. Expanse 31 

 mil. Washington Territory, coll. by H. K. Morrison. 



Agrotis colata, n. s. 

 $ . Like Versipei/is, but a little larger and without the white lines on 



