THE CANADIAN ENTOMOLOGIST. IS* 



Hadcna fradH'uim, (irote. 



? . Eyes naked, with lashes. Thorax with anterior and posterior 

 crests ; the dorsal abdominal tufts are minute. Legs unarmed. Size 

 moderate ; squamation smooth. Dull blackish and very pale dull carncous 

 brown. The pale color obtains along the internal margin of the fore 

 wings and largely subterminally, extending to the apices without the 

 undulate ferruginous subterminal line. The blackish color obtains at 

 base and superiorly along costal region, and surmounting the pale 

 subterminal space and over the constricted terminal space. The contrast 

 between the two tints is variably strong, the blackish color becomes in 

 some specimens dull brownish and the pale tint obscure and dusky. The 

 median space is blackish above submedian fold, narrowed inferiorly ; the 

 ordinary spots small, orbicular concolorous with a fine pale annulation, 

 reniform with the centre of the paler shade of the wing, with a dark 

 internal streak. Transverse posterior line incompletely geminate,. 

 followed by a series of minute black and pale ner\n.ilar dots. The twice 

 prominently undulated subterminal is preceded by a more or less obvious 

 ferruginous shade. Fringes black, narrowly cut with pale at the 

 extremity of the veins. Hind wings concolorous brownish grey, rather 

 dark, without lines; fringes pale with a narrow dark internal line. Beneath 

 paler, dusted with dark scales, with a purplish or carneous tinge and a 

 tolerably distinct exterior common line, more denticulately waved on 

 secondaries. Patagia mixed with blackish scales ; disc and tufts paler,, 

 touched with ferruginous ; abdomen like hind wings. Expanse, 28 to 30 

 m. m. Habitat, Canada (Pettit, No. 1594); Albany (Lintner, Nos. 3568 

 and 1998). Much smaller and distantly recalling rurea in the disposition 

 of the colors. It has apparently also a resemblance to the European 

 Agrotis pHtris, but is generically distinct, and differs by the dark opaque 

 secondaries. 



Hadcna cariosa.  ' 



XylopJiasia cariosa, Guenee, p. 144. 



The median lines are more distinct than in its immediate allies. The 

 median space is narrowed inferiorly, the large claviform extends to the 

 transverse posterior line. 



Cerastis alternata. 



Noctua alternata, Grote, Proc. Ent. Soc. Phil., Vol. III. 

 Eastern States ; New York; Pennsylvania. 



