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don, Ont.,) and do not know of any one who has, and we question if any 

 district of our province has been more thoroughly worked up. Neglecta, 

 although not very common, is taken every season here, the first brood 

 usually occurring during the latter part of May and the early days of June, 

 and the second brood in July and later. On looking over some old 

 memoranda, we find the following dates of captures of neglecta : 1861, one 

 specimen taken May 22nd, one on the 25th, one on the 30th, and one on 

 the 4th of June. In 1862, two specimens on the 14th and one on the 

 15th of May. In 1863, two on the 19th and one on the 22nd of May, 

 and in 1865, one on the 30th of May, one on the 4th of June, and a 

 specimen much beaten on the 25th of the same month. On the 2nd of 

 July a fresh looking specimen was taken, and on the 5th another, both 

 probably belonging to the second brood. The larvae of neglecta, described 

 in the paper referred to by Mr. Edwards, were taken nearly full grown on 

 the 1 2th of July, feeding on a species of cornus (they were subsequently 

 fed on willow) ; five of them produced the imago shortly after, and they 

 were all well defined specimens of neglecta. — Ed. C. E.] 



ON THREE NEW SPECIES OF NOCTUID^E. 



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



Director of the Museum, Buffalo Society Natural Sciences. 



Agrotis rufipennis. N sp. 



$ . Eyes naked, all the tibiae spinose, antennae brush-like. Thorax, 

 head and appendages brownish red. Anterior wings brownish red, silky. 

 Median lines faint, blackish, tolerably approximate. T. a. line nearly 

 straight, t. p. line evenly rounded, tending to be obsolete on the veins ; 

 costal dots mark the inception of the lines. Median shade very faint. 

 Stigmata obsolete ; there is merely an indication of the reniform. Sub- 

 terminal line pale, narrow, continuous ; terminal space darker than the 

 wing, the fringes lighter. Hind wings pure white, immaculate. Abdomen 

 pale. Beneath primaries powdered with reddish, secondaries white with 

 powdery reddish scales along costal region. No perceivable lines or dots 

 in the type. Expanse 38 m. m. Hab. New York (Lintner). The insect 

 looks something like a Ceratnica. 



