186 THE CANADIAN ENTOMOLOGIST. 



the types of which species, from Texas, are contained in the Royal 

 Museum. 



Catocala r dicta (Walk.) 



I have recently examined my material of this species taken in Buffalo 

 and Batavia, N. Y., and I find that the dark shading of the fore wings is 

 not a sexual, but a varietal character. I have a male (as shown by the 

 simple frenulum and the genitalia) which is darker than the specimen 

 figured by Mr. Strecker as a female. I have also a female whiter than 

 Mr. Strecker's figure of the male as regards the fore wings. It is evident 

 from the form of the abdomen that both Mr. Strecker's figures are males. 

 The sexual character is adopted from earlier writers, who had slender 

 material, without personal verification by Mr. Strecker. 



ON NEW SPECIES OF AGROTIS. 



BY A. R. GROTE, BUFFALO, N. Y. 



Agrotis Treati, n. s. 



£ . Allied to A. bicarnea Guen.; smaller and distinguishable by the 

 evenness of the t. p. line. Fore wings dead brownish black. T. a. line 

 rigidly oblique to submedian fold, not rounded as in its ally, and with a 

 less prominent tooth on internal margin. A very faint yellowish shading 

 to the line and also on the costa at inception of t. p. line, where A. 

 bicar?iea is strongly marked with carneous. T. p. line shaped as in its 

 ally, but even, geminate, the inner line not scalloped ; the component 

 lines include a pale shading. Disc velvety black between the narrow 

 stigmata, which are concolorous with the dead black of the wing. A black 

 shade at base below the median vein. All the transverse lines geminate ; 

 the inner line of the basal and t. p., and the outer line of the t. a., marked 

 with velvety black. In one specimen there is an absence of the velvety 

 black shades ; this one is in imperfect condition and allows of no certain 

 description. Hind wings yellowish gray, paler than in bicarnea, with a 

 noticeable terminal darker shading. Beneath with common line and 



