168 BULLETIN 38, UNITED STATES NATIONAL MUSEUM. 



at inner margin. Claviform evident, very small. Ordinary spots large, 

 orbicular round, not entirely defined, powdered with gray; reniform 

 kidney shaped, outlined with black, the sides well marked with yellow- 

 ish scales. Secondaries 9 fuscous, $ , ?. Beneath, smoliy, powdered, 

 with reddish gray; an inconspicuous common darker line. 



Expands 37"™; 1.5 inches. 



Habitat. — Mount Hood. 



A single 5 specimen in Mr. Tepper's collection. The species is well 

 defined, and easily recognized by the color alone. 



Canieades bifasciata Sniitb. 

 1887. Smith, Proc. U. S. Nat. Mas., x, 460, Agrotis. 



Ferrugineous at base, outwardly shading into blackish. Transverse 

 lines broad, single, black, approximate. Basal line evident. T. a. line 

 evenly oblique. T. p. line with a wide outward curve over cell, then 

 running about parallel to outer margin. Median shade even, distinct, 

 from costa at inception of t. p. line to hind margin at termination of 

 same line; its course straight. Ordinary spots obsolete; traceable, but 

 so faint and indefinite as not to be easily discerned. Secondaries red- 

 dish fuscous. Beneath fusco-luteous, powdery, with an indefinite com- 

 mon line and discal luuule. 



Expands SS'"'" ; 1.40 inches. 



Habitat. — Arizona. 



A single $ specimen from Mr. Doll. The species is so well marked 

 that no difficulty will be found in recognizing it. It is aberrant for the 

 group in which I have placed it, but it fits nowhere else as well. 



Carneades comosa Morr. 

 1876. Morr., Proc. Bost. Soc. N. H., xviii, 238, Agrotis. 



A rather pale brick red ; the line blackish, stigmata obsolete. T. a. 

 line upright, with three outward scallops, geminate. T. p. line single, 

 parallel with outer margin, very strongly crenulate. The terminal shade 

 is slightly darker and there is a similar shade preceding and relieving 

 the concolorous sinuate s. t. line. Orbicular obsolete; reniform dusky, 

 lunate; claviform wanting. The median shade is rather well defined 

 ui)right, and nearly central both of wing and median space. Second- 

 aries reddish fuscous. Beneath, powdered with reddish, an indefinite 

 common line and discal spot. Head and thorax concolorous. 



Expands 37"""; 1.5 inches. 



Habitat. — Colorado. 



The type, a $ , from Mr. Tepper's collection, is in horrible condition, 

 but yet sufficiently well marked to be recognizable. The vestitnre is 

 entirely hairy and the insect in its i^resent state has some resemblance 

 to the Pachnohia group of the genus. 



