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PRELIMINARY LIST OF THE NOCTUID^ OF CALIFORNIA. 



Part III. 



BY AUG. R. GROTE, A. M., 



Director of the Museum, Buffalo Society Natural Sciences. 



21. Mamestra cinnabarina Grote (ante.) 



Under the number 5574, Mr. Hy. Edwards sends six specimens 

 which, in their yellow rufous color, resemble the European M. fasciuncula ; 

 they are distinguished by the paler hind wings, the white reniform and the 

 absence of white outer shading to the t. p. line. The Californian species 

 may be held to represent the European M. strigilis. 



50. Zosteropoda hirtipes Grote (ante.) 



Under the number 4408, Mr. Hy. Edwards sends the female of this 

 interesting form. The hind wings are fuscous in the disc with a shaded 

 fascia ; they are without the gathering of longer hair on the veins, which 

 characterize the male. The tibiae are clothed with sparse and rather long 

 hair, not tufted as in the male. The long pointed palpi are characteristic 

 and the shape of the primaries and ornamentation are as in the male- 

 By a clerical error I have given the eyes as " naked " in my original 

 generic description. They are hairy, as in Heliophila, and this character, 

 with the tufted legs, induced my approximation of the genera in the 

 M List of the Noctuidae of North America." 



51. Agrotis euroides Grote, Proc. Acad. N. S., Phil., 1874, 202. 



California, Mr. Behrens, No. 66 ; Vancouver, Mr. Hy. Edwards, No. 

 5576. 



52. Agrotis gravis Grote, Bull. B. S. N. S., 2, 155. 



Mendocino, Mr. Behrens, Nos. 83, 132 ; California, Mr. Hy. Edwards, 

 No. 2622. 



This species varies in tone. In two % specimens the fore wings are 

 yellow brown, with the stigmata concolorous. A J specimen sent by 

 Mr. Hy. Edwards from Vancouver, No. 5607, may belong here ; the mark- 

 ings aie obliterate and the primaries more rounded. 



