102 THE CANADIAN ENTOMOLOGIST. 



alternata or cupida, but it is more like alternata than it is cupida in its 

 being irregular, accompanied with powdery black scales ; it is preceded 

 on costa by a blackish shade as in cupida. The present species I have 

 formerly considered as alternata from the markings, and, on Mr. Mor- 

 rison's authority as cupida fiom the color, but the reniform I now see is 

 more kidney shaped than in either the Eastern alternata or cupida. I 

 sent a specimen to Mr. Morrison to show the variability of what I sup- 

 posed was his exsertistigma, and he informed me that the specimen was 

 cupida. Afterwards he returned me my specimen of exsertistigma, 

 recorded above, which I then saw was an entirely different species. I 

 have subsequently adopted the view that the Californian specimens were 

 cupida, and that I was in error in considering them to be alternata. I 

 now reject both determinations, and consider that the Californian species 

 is allied to both alternata and cupida and is a new species from the data 

 given above. The habitus of cupidissima and size (39 m. m.) is rather 

 that of alternata. The hind wings are a little paler at base in cupidissima, 

 and the lunule more obvious. A. cupida does not as yet appear to occur 

 in California. The provisional identification on page 27 (ante) must be 

 erased and the present substituted. I use the number (56^ for a different 

 species. 



36. Agrotis obeliscoides Guenee'. 



No. 30 (red label) Mr Behrens. 



The Californian specimens are very near to sexatilis Grote, which 

 latter I am now inclined to consider synonymous with Guenee's species. 

 They appear to differ chiefly by the more constricted reniform marked 

 with white, the want of costal discoloration and the less brightly red hue. 

 More material is needed to make this determination certain, together with 

 a positive identification of obeliscoides. 



1 2 j. Mamestra passa Morrison, Proc. Bost. Soc. N. H., 2874, 139. 

 Unknown to me and very possibly the same as Dianthoecia pensilis 

 Grote. 



124. Graphiphora carina (Morrison) 1. c, 158 (Taeuiocampa.) 

 " California." Unknown to me. 



125. Agrotcs inciris Guenee', Morr. 1. c, 164. 



" California." Unknown to me from California. Mr. Morrison 

 identifies my Anicla Alabama as this species too briefly described by 

 Guenee, who does not mention the dotted t. p. line. 



