Noctuidse 
This species, readily distinguished from all others by the well 
defined claviform spot, ranges from Massachusetts to Alberta 
and northward. 
Genus METALEPSIS Grote 
Two species of this genus are credited to our fauna. Of the 
type of one of these, preserved in the British Museum, I am able 
to give an excellent figure taken from Sir George F. Hampson’s 
Fig. ioi. —Metalepsis cornuta, £ . f. 
fine work upon the moths of the world, which is being published 
by the Trustees of the above named institution. The insect 
occurs in California. 
Genus SETAGROTIS Smith 
Eight species, all of them found in the northern parts of our 
territory or at considerable elevations among 
the mountains of the West, are attributed 
to this genus. I am able to give a figure 
of one of these, which Dr. Dyar kindly had 
drawn from the type in the United States 
National Museum. It occurs among the 
mountains of Colorado and Wyoming. The 
ground color of the wings is pale luteous. 
Fig. 102. —Setagrotis 
terrific a, £ . T 
Genus AGROTIS Ochsenheimer 
(i) Agrotis badinodis Grote, Plate XXI, Fig. 37, $ . (The 
Pale-banded Dart.) 
Not an uncommon species in the northern Atlantic States 
and Canada. 
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