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secondaries with anterior margiu irrorate with purplish scales, else 

 gray; a common dark extradiscal line crosses both wings and tbe 

 secondaries have a distinct discal lunule. The vestiture of body be- 

 neath is long, thin, purplish red. 



Expands 33-37™'"; 1.30-1.45 inches. 



Habitat. — Northern and Eastern States, Lewis County, New York, 

 July 29, British Columbia, Oregon. 



Evidently referable here by the general habitus, yet sufficiently dis- 

 tinct from all except the following species to form the type of a sub- 

 group which shall be distinguished by the shorter palpi not forming 

 a distinct beak, by tbe somewhat more ample secondaries, the longer 

 abdomen, and the form of the $ genitalia. Some of the western spec- 

 imens are extremely difficult to separate from hrunneieollis, different 

 as the type forms of the species are. 



Rhynchagrotis brunneicollis Grt. 



1864. Grt., Proc. Eut. Soc. Phil., in, 524, pi. 5, f. 5, Noctua. 

 18G9. Grt., Traus. Am. Eut. Soc, ii, 309, Ayrotis. 



Primaries reddish gray, slighly irrorate with black, and more exten- 

 sively with ferruginous scales ; transverse lines dark-brown, distinct, 

 but interrupted; basal line distinct, blackish, straight; t. a. line black- 

 ish, geminate, nearly straight, forming three even curves; t. p. line 

 often indistinct, crenulate, forming black dots on the veins, as a whole 

 the line with a rather even outward Curve ; s. t. line narrow, pale, in- 

 distinct, sinuous, a distinct dark costal shade at its inception often 

 continuing as a narrow margin to the pale line ; ordinary spots large, 

 distinct, concolorous with the rest of the wing, well defined by ferru- 

 ginous or darker annuli ; the reniform broad, but slightly excavated 

 externally; terminal space often somewhnt darker; a faint narrow 

 ferruginous median shade; fringes long, darker than the rest of the 

 wing; secondaries broad, very pale grayish testaceous, immaculate, 

 very slightly darker shaded along external margin; beneath, prima- 

 ries reddish along the costa, rest of the wing blackish gray, paler along 

 terminal margin ; secondaries as above, except along costa, which is 

 powdered with reddish gray scales ; a common dark exterior line ; head 

 ferruginous brown, collar deeper dark brown; thorax else concolorous 

 with the primaries. 



Expands 35-40™™; 1.40-1.60 inches. 



Habitat. — New York, Massachusetts, Maine, Canada, Northern, 

 Eastern, and Middle States. Albany in June. 



As compared with rufipectuH this species has narrower, longer prima- 

 ries, more ample secondaries, and longer abdomen. The differences in 

 color are ordinarialy so great that there is no difficulty in separating 

 them. In some western specimens liowever I have been seriously puz- 

 zled to say which species was before me. The genital structure is prac- 



