%\t dHanaotan Entomologist. 



VOL. VII. LONDON, ONT., JUNE, 1875. No. 6 



PRELIMINARY LIST OF THE NOCTUID^ OF CALIFORNIA. 



Part VI. 



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



Director of the Museum, Buffalo Society Natural Sciences. 



55- Agrotis exsertistigma Morrison (see ante p. 26). Sauzalito, Mr. 

 Behrens, Oct., Nos. 16 and 209. 



I sent specimens of this species to Mr. Morrison, keeping no memor- 

 andum or duplicates. Afterwards I supposed, from his brief comparison, 

 that Mr. Morrison had described Californian specimens which I had 

 considered as alternata Grote, under the new name. Subsequently Mr. 

 Morrison returns me my specimen of exsertistigma, and I see that it is a 

 distinct species which should not have been compared with alternata, as 

 it is structurally different by the conical abdomen ; the species should 

 have been credited as received from me. That rcdimacula and exsertis- 

 tigma are described by Mr. Morrison without any mention being made of 

 the fact that I supplied the material either in part (rcdimacula) or wholly 

 (exsertistigma), is a breach of etiquette. Mr. Morrison should not have 

 hesitated to acknowledge so slight an indebtedness. Agrotis alternata 

 does not appear to occur in California. 



28. Agrotis cupidissima Grote (see ante pp. 214 and 27.) 



Mendocino, June, Mr. Behrens, No. 4 (red label) ; also No. 164. 

 The Californian specimens are light red colored, with powdery geminate 

 lines, and variable in appearance ; one is pale fawn, unicolorous, without 

 marks on primaries save indications of the stigmata and the dotted t. p. 

 line. Again, three specimens have the orbicular somewhat V-shaped, open 

 above. The t. p. line is more regular than in cicpida; it is accompanied 

 by black dots. The subterminal line is nearer the margin than in either 



