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shape. Terminal dots distinct ; fringes dark. Hind wings pale fuscous, hardly 

 paler basally, with white faintly lined fringes. Beneath very pale, nearly 

 white ; hiud wings with slight discal mark and powdered on the costal region 

 with dark scales. Fore Avings darker with dark fringes and terminal dots dis- 

 tinct. Thorax and head above vinous brown ; abdomen pale fuscous. 



Expanse, 38 m. m. 



One bred specimen, Mr. Belirens. Allied to A. Wilsoni, but 

 readily distinguished by its deep and rich red brown color and the 

 difference in antennal structure. California. Coll. of this Society. 



Adita^ n. g. 



The head is prominent, eyes large, naked, with lashes. Antennae long, in 

 the t strongly bipectinate to the tips. All the tibiae are spinose ; in addition 

 the fore tibiae are provided with a stout claw as in Oncocnemis. Collar 

 slightly elevated in front ; thorax crested behind. Abdomen untufted, exceed- 

 ing the hind wings. Fore wings broad, retreating at internal angles. The 

 moth is rather stout and well sized, and in its strong structural characters 

 seem to fall in between Agrotis and Mamestra. 



Since Abbot illustrated the species in 1797, it has remained un- 

 noticed by any author to my knowledge. The male is now for the 

 first time described. 



(8.) Adita Chionanthi {Ahb. & Sm.). 



$ . — Blackish gray, the costal region, ordinary spots and terminal space 

 shaded with whitish gray. Basal half-line, black, distinct, erect. Median lines 

 black, approximate, narrowing the median space below the median vein. 

 Claviform black margined, small. T. a. line even, a little irregular at costa, 

 slightly arcuate. Orbicular moderate, black ringed, rounded, whitish with a 

 dark central stain. Median shade blackish, rivulous. T. p. line exserted over 

 the nervules, skirting the large reniform inferiorly and running inwardly from 

 vein 4. The line is very inconspicuously lunulate, nearly even. Subtermi- 

 nal shade line ragged, indicated by the differences in color between the sub- 

 terminal and terminal spaces. A strong decided black dash on the interspace 

 between veins 2 and 3, crossing the s. t. line. Fringes fuscous, obsoletely 

 interrupted with whitish ; a narrow black terminal line. Hind wings pellucid 

 whitish, soiled with fuscous and with an indistinct medjan line; fringes 

 whitish. Thorax like wings ; collar with a black line. 



Exjmnse, 42 m. m. Ithaca, N. Y., Mr. J. 11. Comstock, No. 30. 



