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marked with blackish lines ; basal area suffusedly mixed with dark brown and black ; 

 first line indistinctly blackish-edged ; orbicular and reniform dark fuscous, edged with 

 pale ochreous, partially black-outlined, connected by an elongate dark fuscous spot ; 

 claviform oval, fuscous, black-outlined ; second line edged by series of undefined 

 blackish-fuscous dots ; subterminal pale, obscure, edged anteriorly with dark fuscous 

 suffusion on costa and in middle, posteriorly by dark fuscous suffusion extending to 

 termen. Hindwings fuscous-whitish irrorated with fuscous; a fuscous crescentic discal 

 mark, and indistinct subterminal shade. 



I specimen, Kona, Hawaii, at 4000 feet, in July. 



(12) Agrotis tephrias, sp. nov. 



(/?. 34 — 40 mm. Head and thorax brownish sprinkled with whitish, collar 

 often with a dark transverse median streak and anterior half paler, patagia with an 

 oblique white streak behind collar. Antennae in c/" bidentate with triangular teeth. 

 Forewings fuscous, sometimes ferruginous-tinged, irrorated with whitish except in disc, 

 which is darker-mixed ; first and second lines obscurely whitish, dark-edged, sometimes 

 very undefined ; orbicular rather small, oval, whitish, sometimes dark-centred, dark- 

 outlined ; reniform whitish-edged ; claviform slender, dark fuscous, undefined, crossing 

 first line and sometimes extended to base ; subterminal line obscurely whitish, edged 

 anteriorly with darker suffusion. Hindwings light greyish-ochreous, posteriorly fuscous- 

 tinged. 



8 specimens ; 3 Kaholuamano, Kauai, in April ; 5 Mts. Waimea, Kauai, at 4000 

 feet, in May and June. 



(13) Agrotis photophila Butl. 



Leucania pJiotophila Butl. Ent. Mo. Mag. xv. p. 269 ; Spaelotis lucicolens ib. xvii. 

 p. 7 ; Ann. Mag. N. H. (5) vii. 1881, p. 321. 



^. 35—40 mm. Antennae in ,? bidentate with long triangular processes. Fore- 

 wings light greyish-ochreous sprinkled with fuscous ; subbasal, first, and second lines 

 indicated by more or less distinct blackish dots, first and second sometimes forming 

 undefined waved lines ; posterior edge of reniform sometimes indicated by black 

 scales ; traces of a darker praesubterminal shade ; a terminal series of dark fuscous 

 dots. Hindwings light greyish-ochreous, posteriorly infuscated. 



No specimens of this species were taken ; I have described the two typical 

 specimens in the British Museum ; these were taken at light near Honolulu, Oahu, 

 and the species is stated to be rare. 



M. F. H. 



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