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(4.) Agrotis phyllophora, Orote. 



$ . — A large handsome lilac-rosy colored species. All the tibiae spinose. 

 Antennae impectinate, brush-like, with a single stouter ray on each side of 

 eacli joint. A.phylloj)horn has a slight resemblance to A, subrosea, but belongs, 

 from the $ antennal structure, to a different section of the genus. Fore wings 

 purple red. All the lines widely geminate, of a darker red, tolerably distinct 

 and sub-continuous. Basal half line distinct, with the nearly perpendicular 

 wavy t. a. line widely geminate. No claviform spot. Orbicular and reniform 

 concolorous, vaguely outlined, paler against the more deeply red shading of 

 the discal cell. The slightly extended t. p. line is followed by blackish and pale 

 points on the more deeply red tinted subterminal space. The irregular subter- 

 minal line appears by contrast between the latter and the paler terminal space, 

 which is concolorous with the rest of the wing. Hind wings fuscous without 

 bands or marks; fringes yellowish. Abdomen fuscous with yellowish anal 

 hairs ; thorax and head like fore wings ; head above and palpi more brownish 

 red ; terminal palpal joint, front and thorax paler. Beneath the paler red- 

 dusted hind wings show a vague dark fuscous median line accented on the 

 veins. From triangulum and allies this species is at once separated by the 

 armed fore tibiae. 



Expanse, 40 to 42 m. m. Two specimens, New York, Canada. 



(5.) Agrotis fonualis, Orote. 



i . — An exceedingly dark and beautiful species, with silky squamation and 

 semewhat flattened form, and allied to our eastern A. collaris and A.geniculata. 

 Middle and hind tibiae alone spinose. Dark intense blackish brown. The col- 

 lar has a narrow central pure white line, aJ)0V6 which the prothoracic pieces 

 are velvety black. Primaries with the costal edge broadly dark ashen to the 

 inception of the t. p. line, absorbing the superior portion of the orbicular spot. 

 Reniform grey, like the costal edge, moderate, with faint dark internal ring. 

 Ordinary lines geminate, fine, not very distinct or complete, black. The t. a. 

 line waved, nearly perpendicular. The basal half-line visible on the gray 

 costal edge. The t. p. line roundedly but not greatly exserted opposite the 

 cell, followed by minute black and white points on the subterminal space. 

 Median space with a more ruddy brown tinge than the rest of the wing and 

 like the thorax and tegulae. The faintly- pale subterminal line is shaded with 

 brown and the dark fringes are brown at base and show a faint interior line. 

 Hind wings blackish without marks, with white-tipped fuscous fringes that 

 show a broad interior line. Abdomen blackish. Beneath the wings are a 

 little paler, irrorate, with a, rather distinct blackish common line and black dis- 

 cal mark on the hind wings. 



Expanse, 35 m. ni. One fresh specimen, Mr. Bchrens, California. 

 Coll. of this Sociel V. 



