172 BULLETIN 38, UNITED STATES NATIONAL MUSEUM. 



This is another of Mr. Morrison's famous types, from Mr. Tapper's 

 collection. Mr. Morrison has distributed by all odds the most misera- 

 bly preserved lot of specimens as types that has ever been my ill fortune 

 to see. The present species, if a perfect specimen ever comes to hand, 

 will require care in identifying. 



Carneades brunneigera Grt. 



1875. Grt., Buff. Ball., in, 80, Agrotis. 



1880. Grt., Bull. Geol. Siirv., vi, 260, Agrotis. 



Grayish red to red brown; transverse lines distinct, blackish. Ordi- 

 nary spots coucolorous. Basal line evident, geminate. T. a. line dis- 

 tinct geminate, upright or slightly oblique, outwardly curved between 

 veins. T. p. line crenulate, obsoletely geminate, its course sinuate. 

 S. t. line concolorous, marked with a dark accompanying shade. Clav- 

 iform wanting; orbicujar entirely obsolete, or very faintly, hardly per- 

 ceptibly outlined. Eeniform also indefinite, often not traceable, but 

 usually outlined, or at least distinct as a dusky lunule. The median 

 shade is dusky, diffuse rather beyond the center of the m. space. Head 

 and thorax concolorous. Secondaries fuscous. Beneath fuscous, pow- 

 dery; a distinct <larker transverse line and discal spot. 



Expands 33-35'"™; 1.30-1.40 inches. 



Habitat. — California, Washington, Vancouver, Colorado, Louisiana. 



The type from Vancouver is rather distinct red brown; a $ speci- 

 men from Colorado is nearly equal to the tyx^e in, color. Three other 

 specimens shade off into a distinct rather reddish gray, the maculation 

 remaining tolerably alike. The obsolescence of the ordinary spots, 

 especially the orbicular, compared with the distinctness of the trans- 

 verse lines, is characteristic of the species. 



Carneades incallida Smith. 

 1890. Smith, Traus. Am. Eut. Soc, xvii, 50, Agrotis. 



General color pale ashen gray. Palpi brown at sides ; a dusky line 

 across the front; collar dark tipped. Thorax uuicolored, concolorous. 

 Primaries with slightly darker suffusion beyond the median shade. 

 Basal line geminate, black, upright, Innulate, the outer line broad, the 

 inner narrower and fainter. A broad black median shade, somewhat 

 diffuse outwardly. T. p. line black, lunulate, geminate, the outer line 

 distinct near costa oidy, a strong outcurve over reniform, and a slight 

 incurve in the submediau interspace. S. t. line irregular,^ interrupted, 

 pale, marked by a very distinct smoky preceding, and a somewhat less 

 evident following shade. Claviform wanting, orbicular barely trace- 

 able, concolorous ; reniform marked only by an iiuleflnite dusky spot. 

 Secondaries deep smoky brown. Beneath very dark smoky brown with 

 white powderings along the costa, broader on secondaries. A broad 

 diffuse outer band, distinct only through the jialer parts of the wing. 



