12 THE CANADIAN ENTOMOLOGIST 



Chorizagrotis auxiliaris, soror, agrestis and inconcinna stand as 

 four species, with intraf evens as a form of the first named. 

 The latter is correct, but agrestis and auxiliaris are also the 

 same species as I have proved by breeding from a known 

 parent. Nor am I able to recognize soror Smith as dis- 

 tinct. The species appeared in millions in Southern Alberta 

 in the spring of 1915, the larvae doing widespread damage 

 to field crops. I have little faith in the distinctness of 

 inconcinna, but must let that stand for the present. 



Rhizagrotis insertans Sm. Another of those species, described in 

 1890 from B. C, of which I had seen the type, but failed to 

 recognize it. The authors place it between albalis and 

 cloanthoides. 



Agrotis acarnea Sm. The species, besides having spined tibia, has 

 slightly hairy eyes, which fact I pointed out to Smith in 1910, 

 though he failed to see it. A few other specimens have since 

 come to hand, and one is in the British Museum. Hampson 

 has described a new genus, Trichosilia, to receive it. It is 

 is related closely to Episilia. 



A. inopinatus, sierra and unimacula stand, in this order, as three 

 species. The latter name is used by Hampson as prior to 

 the long familiar haruspica. I have quite failed to separate 

 inapinatiis from unimacula. Sierrce is doubtful, but is scarcely 

 well placed between the other two names. 



A. atricincta Sm., is referred to tepperi Sm. This is quite new to 

 me. I have not seen the type of the latter, but assurne the 

 reference to be correct. 



Aplectoides fales Sm. I cannot consider this distinct from pressus 

 Grt. as listed. It is not unlikely that more of Smith's names 

 in this genus will have ultimately to be referred to Grote's 

 species. 



Ufeus Grt. I have referred hulstii Sm. described from Utah, to 

 plicatus Grt. In the new list they stand as distinct. I h'ave 

 carefully compared Grote's description with the Grote speci- 

 men (not the type) in the British Museum. This leaves me 



