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plicatus or some of the species of ffomohadena,* such as indnta and 

 incomitata. Thorax and fore wings dark but bright brown, veins more or 

 less marked with black, stigmata obsolete, median lines sometimes obso- 

 lete, when present black, narrow, single; t. a. line upright, rivulous ; t. p. 

 line denticulate, exserted superiorly, marking venular points, followed by 

 a faint pale shade ; s. t. line pale. Hind wings pale at base, smoky out- 

 wardly, sub-pellucid, veins darker, no discal dot above or below. Front 

 and tips of palpi very deep brown. Beneath pale, washed with reddish, 

 a common black even line, veins indicated. Thorax and appendages and 

 abdomen beneath rosy brown. Collar unlined. Expanse £ 34 mil. 

 (Colorado) ; $ 40 (Nevada) ; from Dr. James S. Bailey. May be placed 

 with the albalis group, but resembles no species very nearly. Body not 

 hairy as in U. plicatus. 



Agrotis cupida. 



This species seems to be subject to unusual variation. What may be 

 taken as the typical form, or that which is best marked, expands 33-35 

 mil., the wings are of a brick brown with the stigmata filled with black, a 

 black mark on costa at inception of s. t. line, the s. t. space a little darker 

 than the rest of the wing, the lines well defined. A larger form from 

 Texas expands 40 mil. ; it has been reared from the larva by Belfrage 

 (No. 674). It is more red, more unicolorous, the markings less obtrusive. 

 A specimen taken by Dr. Bailey is the size of the typical form, but has 

 the sub-basal and subterminal spaces entirely filled in with black. Then 

 come three specimens in which the fore wings seem a little narrower and 

 the expanse smaller. One is bright orange red, all the markings obsolete. 

 Another is more of the typical shade, but both stigmata are ringed with 

 bright yellow. The third I have described as distinct, under the name 

 brunneipeniiis. This one, from Air. Thaxter, is a little smaller than the 

 others, expanding hardly over 30 mil. It is dark red-brown, almost im- 

 maculate. Whether these three belong to a different species from cupida 

 remains doubtful. 



Agrotis cupidissiuia . 



It seems to me now probable that lactula is not sufficiently distinct 

 from this California!! form. In the type of the latter the ground color is 



* I can find no character to separate Metahadena from this genus, to which I would 

 accordingly refer //. atrifasriata (Morr.) 



