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the veins. Entirely dark i)urply brown ; thorax and head reddish brown. 

 Stigmata a little hoary ; orbicular large, open ; reniform wide ; claviform 

 indicated. Lines very faint ; an indistinct paler shade following the t. p. 

 line ; the terminal space also indistinctly paler. Hind wings concolorous, 

 dark fuscous. Mount Hood ; one fresh female specimen. Cannot be 

 confounded with any other species from the color and its affinity with 

 versipellis. 



Agrotis semiclarata , n. s. 



^ $. Allied to gr(77'is and ^//<r^//7w^//j-/>, smaller than the latter and 

 without the pale cast of gfavis. A thick dark brown basal dash extending 

 into the cla^•iform, and faintly cut b}' the t. a. line. Rich brown with the 

 costal region (especially in the $ ) suffused with darker. Spots concolor- 

 ous ; cell shaded with black. S. t. line pale, without the small teeth at 

 the middle and below apices of its allies. Head and collar rich yellow 

 brown ; tegular shaded with pale, but not so pale as in gravis. Beneath 

 the costal half of secondaries is fuscous, leaving the lower portion of the 

 wing including the border pale ; a spot and common line. Above the 

 - hind wings are fuscous and rather dark in both sexes. This species may 

 be known by the hind wings beneath being lialf ])ale, including the lower 

 portion of the border, which is usually darker. The three species, gravis, 

 va7icouverensis and seiniclarafa, are nearl)- allied ; their Eastern allies seem 

 to be volubilis, vaio-abilis and stigmosa. 



Xylomiges pcrliibeiis, n. s. 



^ . Allied to riibrica. Fore wings variegated with reddish and gray. 

 Lines double, brownish, marked on costa l)y l)lackish dots. Orbicular 

 pale, with brown centre and blackish annulus, upright ; reniform with an 

 inferior stain, a curved reddish inner streak, indistinct outwardly. Veins 

 blackish. T. p. line followed by white venular points. S. t. line preceded 

 by a deep reddish shade marked opposite the cell and again below vein 3. 

 Terminal space blackish with a gray apical patch. External margin den- 

 tate ; fringes cut witli pale. Hind wings and fringes pure white ; a broken 

 terminal line ; beneath with a dotted extra-mesial line and discal spot. 

 Primaries beneath with the terminal space whitish ; subterminal space 

 stained with brownish ; a discal mark very near the dotted extra-mesial 

 line which hardly reaches the margin. Eyes hairy ; tibiae unarmed ; 

 antennae brush-like : abdomen tufted at base. Wings elongate. Thorax 

 and head reddish brown ; collar edged with gray \ abdomen i)ale reddish 



