THE CAXADIAX ENTO^tOLOGIST. 13 



NOTES OX XOCTUID.i:. 



BY AUG. R. GROTE, 



Curator of Articidata, Buffalo Soc, of Natural Sciences. 



Agrotls baJuiodis, Grote. 



^ . Antennce pectinate. All the tibiae armed or spinose. Abdomen 

 .a little flattened. Body slender ; wings ample and wide. X'earest to 

 Agrotis co/Iaris, but with wider wings, and larger and differently colored. 

 Smooth, pale brown. Transverse lines even, with coincident pale 

 shades. Basal half-line evident ; on the sub-basal space a pale dot 

 followed by darker scales situate on median nervure. Transverse anterior 

 line straight, touching the broader superior portion of the large orbicular 

 on subcostal nervure, and leaving on the disc an intensely blackish brown 

 space to obtain between the narrower lov^-er portion of the orbicular and 

 the line. Reniform, like the orbicular, concolorous, with narrow pale 

 edging, hardly as large as the orbicular and broader below than abo^'e. 

 .Space between the spots deep, faintly reddish brown, deepening to median 

 nervure. The diffuse median shade apparent below median nervure. 

 Claviform large, concolorous, indistinctly limited. Transverse posterior 

 line even, regularly arcuate, much as in cot/arts. Subterminal space dark 

 reddish brown ; subterminal line faint, narrow, irregular, i)ale ; terminal 

 space paler, less reddish brown than the subterminal. Terminal line 

 broken into minute dots ; fringes dark. 



Hind wings concolorous, dark silky fuscous, with pale fringes. Beneath 

 with a reddish brown tinge ; a common diffuse fuscous line, and a dark 



• discal spot on the hind^vings which are palest and notably irrorate. Collar 



• dark, thorax pale brown ; abdomen like hind wings. Expanse, 35 m. m. 

 Habitat, Maryland (coll. IJntner, X""©. 2506.) 



The antennal pectinations are longer tlian in triauguluui, the color 



• difterent, the orbicular differently shaped. 



Eurois occulta. 



I have determined this species in the collection of Mr. Lintner, from 



Xew York, and in that of the Laval University, Quebec. It is a robust 



form, resembling Mamestra nimhosa in appearance, but structurally 



'distinguished by the naked eyes, spinose fore tibice and excavated genital 



