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To this species I give the name o( Ruddiffei, lor in so doini,', I 

 connect a beautiful insect with the name of one who is too well 

 known for me to attempt to give prominence to himself or his 

 Avork, and show the appreciation and esteem I have for a good 

 friend and an able teacher, Mr. Augustus Kadcliffe Grote. 



Apatelii persuasa, n. s. 



$ . — A species between A. superans and A. afflicta. Smaller than superans, 

 without the testaceous patch on internal margin at base and not so much 

 shaded with black. Clear gray and black, the orbicular more rounded than in 

 superans. The lines are similar in the two species. Hind wings more as in 

 afflicta, whitish, with the veins marked, clouded with fuscous outwardly, 

 with a median shade. Beneath whitish, with a common line dentate on hind 

 wings which bear a discal lunule and a mark above it on costa. Front with a 

 black line. Thorax mixed gray. 



Bxjmnse, 40 m. m. Habitat, Texas (Belfrage, August). 



Agrotis rudeiis, n. s. 



$ 2 . — This species resembles aiinexa but is smaller and has a casual resem- 

 blance to Laphygma frugiperda. The orbicular is distinct, not absent as in 

 Mr. Morrison's simpUcius. The color is pale testaceous gray, the wing some- 

 what mottled with fuscous. A black basal streak extends from the base 

 beyond the t. a. line where it replaces the claviform. Orbicular and reniform, 

 small, subequal, concolorous, reniform with an interior shaded blackish annu- 

 lus. A black streak above the vein connects the spots and obtains between 

 the orbicular and the faintly geminate t. a. line. Below the basal dash, on the 

 subbasal space, the wing is shaded with blackish. T. p. line reduced to fus- 

 cous points, sometimes hardly visible. Subterminal line pale, sinuate. Sub- 

 terminal space darker, with a pale apical shade before which there is a costal 

 darker shading. Hind wings pellucid white, slightly fuscous in the female, 

 without discal mark. Head and base of collar yellowish gray; thorax fuscous, 

 collar with a black line; palpi black at the sides. All the tibiae spiuose. 

 Male antennae ciliate beneath. 



Expanse, 33 m. ni. Habitat, Texas (Belfrage, December). 



Agrotis sculptilisj n. s. 



<5 . — This is a cleanly marked, handsome species, allied in color and size to 

 Bostoniensis. The fore tibiae have the spinular series terminating in longer 

 spines. The eyes are indistinctly lashod. It would thus share some of the 

 character of Pleonectopoda Grote, and might be referred to that genus. I can- 

 not consider, however, that genus as sufficiently distinct from Agrotis. The 



