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mesial tuft seems to me to be shared also by Agrotis saucia. The single 

 species of Pleonectopoda had better be united with Agrotis and form the type 

 of a section of that large genus. Mr. Morrison has referred the fimbriaris of 

 Guenee to Pleonectopoda ; I do not know the species, but, from the description 

 of the antennae, etc., it would seem to belong to a different genus, for which 

 Mr. Grote's proposed name in the List, Eucoptocnemis, should be retained. 



Agrotis sculptilis has ashen fore wings, shaded with black beyond the median 

 shade, so as to obscure the reniform spot and t. p. line. The markings are 

 neat, deep-black, and very narrow. T. a. and basal half-line geminate. T. a. 

 line slightly angulate, the most prominent inflection below the s. m. nervure. 

 Orbicular large, spherical, concolorous. Claviform large, concolorus. Reni- 

 form well sized, indented outwardly. T. p. line geminate, lunulate. Hind wings 

 soiled white ; beneath with faint discal mark and dotted line. The collar 

 with a black central line. Tegulae blackish cinereous. Antennae brushlike. 



Expanse, 35 m. m. Hahitat, Texas (Belfrage, November). 



Agrotis cliortalis, n. s. 



^ 2 . — A large species of a faded olive gray, with some resemblance to the 

 species of Glaea. All the tibiae spinose. Basal half-line and t. a. line marked 

 in deep velvety black. The t. a. line is dentate at costa, and opposite the cell 

 across the median vein forms an inwardly concave, c-shaped curve, which some- 

 times stands out as a disconnected portion of the line ; below this the line 

 fades out and the black color ceases. Ordinary spots large, vague, concolorous. 

 Median shade distinct with an inward angle on the cell ; from the median 

 nervure below the reniform it runs straightly inwardly obliquely to internal 

 margin. T. a. line geminate, the inner line more black and slightly lunulate, 

 the outer even, faded ; the line is somewhat s-shaped. Subterminal line faint. 

 Hind wings fuscous in the female, whitish in the male. Head and thorax con- 

 colorous with primaries. Palpi black at the sides. Wings beneath with 

 ruddy tinting on the costal and terminal borders, finely irrorate ; secondaries 

 with a small dot and outer fuscous continued line very near the margin, fad- 

 ing out in the male. Body hairs beneath somewhat ruddy. 



Expanse, 40 m. m. Hahitat, Texas (Mr. Belfrage, November). 



Besides the foregoing three species Mr. Belfrage has collected in 

 Texas, Agrotis hadinodis Grote, Agrotis simplicius Morr., A. alter- 

 nata Grote, A. mnraenula G. & R., A. luhricans (Giien.), A. veyiera- 

 ii7i5 Walk, {-trifusca?), A. tricosa Lintner, A. auxiliaris Grote, 

 A. annexa Treitschke, ^. saucia Hiibner, and A. suffusa {y^.\.). 



