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pale. Hind wings whitish, smoky about the margin, with white fringes. 

 Thorax and head like fore wings, Collar with a black line. Front with 

 two short black lines. Lower portion and tips of palpi pale. Abdomen 

 griseous, with a stigmatal black line. Exp. 35 m. m. 



This species is stouter than rudens, of a rougher appearance, and it 

 differs by the more deeply stained hind wings, the open orbicular and the 

 general color. The fore tibiae are wanting in the specimen. 



Nevada, Mr. Hy. Edwards, No. 5603. 



107. Agrotis excellens Grote, Proc. Am. Ent. Soc. (1875). 

 Vancouver's Island, Mr. Hy. Edwards, No. 5570. 



108. Agrotis intrita Morrison, Proc. Bost. S. N. H., 1874, 164. 



$ . Antennae coarsely brush-like. All the tibiae spinose. Rich deep 

 brown, with an olive ochre stain, which tinges the thorax and the markings 

 of the fore wings. Thorax and head concolorous with fore wings. These 

 latter are of so intense and even a color that the markings are obscured. 

 The ordinary lines are deep blackish, geminate, with paler fillings. 

 Orbicular round, the black annulate with a pale interior lining. Claviform 

 rather large and pointed. Reniform moderate, with an indistinct interior 

 annulus, the stigmata well separated and without discal suffusion. T. p. 

 line lunulate, even in its general course, not inwardly bent below the 

 median vein. Subterminal line indistinct, pale, of the usual irregular 

 shape, continuous. The dark fringes are interlined with pale. Hind 

 wings and fringes unicolorous, light fuscous, without marks. Abdomen 

 like hind wings, with ruddy lateral and inferior tinting. Beneath the 

 wings are without lines, clouded, subirrorate, hind wings with an obsolete 

 point and largely pale inferiorly. Exp. 30 to 32 m. m. 



Mr. Hy. Edwards, Nos, 5646, 5640, 5607, Vancouver Island. 



Mr. Morrison has identified a specimen without which 1 could not 

 have known his species, since he compares it briefly with phyllophora i to 

 which it bears no near resemblance. 



ioo. Agrotis pastoralis. N. sp. 



$ . Antennae simple; all the tibiae spinose. Wings elongate. Thorax 

 and fore wings dull black. All the markings faint. Orbicular small, 

 spherical, interlined with pale powdery scales. Reniform of the usual 

 shape, well removed from the orbicular, more prominently interlined with 



