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strong lunule on secondaries. Head dark brown on vertex, with pale 

 marginal lines ; terminal palpal joints pale ; collar brown, with a black 

 and pale line at base. Legs dark, pale dotted. Thorax brownish black, 

 with pale line at base of tegulae. Abdomen like secondaries. 



Expanse 34 m. m. Mass., Mr. Thaxter, No. 2,311. Named for Mr. 

 James O. Treat, of Andover, Mass. 



Agrotis brunneipennis, n. s. 



$ . Allied to cupida, but smaller. Fore tibiae unarmed. Thorax and 

 fore wings of a glossy chestnut brown, somewhat reddish. None of the 

 usual markings are noticeable. The subterminal space is stained with 

 blackish. Following the s. t. line is a series of faint pale interspaceal 

 fleck ings. Ordinary lines indicated on costal region. Hind wings 

 blackish fuscous. Abdomen beneath stained with reddish brown as is 

 the costal region of primaries ; else the blackish wings beneath show only 

 a common black transverse line, which fades out towards the internal 

 margins. Palpi black at the sides. Head brown above. 



Expanse 30 m. m. Mass., Mr. Thaxter, No. 2,303. 



Agrotis friabilis, n. s. 



$ . A small species with a resemblance to Bostojiiensis. All the 

 tibiae spinose, the fore pair with larger terminal spinules ; clypeas rough- 

 ened. Fore wings fuscous gray, with indistinct darker markings. The t. 

 p. line is lunulate ; the t. a. line widely geminate and dentate ; stigmata 

 obsolete; median shade noticeable; terminal space more purely gray than 

 the rest of the wing. Hind wings concolorous, pale grayish fuscous, above 

 without line or spot ; beneath (where they are whitish with the costal 

 region powdered with fuscous) there is a faint median shading. Fore 

 wings beneath with a faint median line distinctly marked in black on 

 costa. 



Expanse 30 m. m. Taken by Mr. Geo. Norman; number 371. 



Agrotis badicollis (Grote). 



Mr. Norman sends me a fine male with the transverse lines broadly 

 marked in black, and Mr. Lintner has again sent me my °. type. I have 

 mistaken the black scales about the eyes for true lashes. Mr. Morrison's 

 correction, as to the genus, must, then, be accepted. The species seems 

 to vary greatly in distinctness of markings. 



