REVISION OF SPECIES OF THE GENUS AGKOTIS 173 



Secondaries with ;i discal s[)ot. Vestiture of breast ash-^ray, tarsi and 

 tibia', black rinj;;ed, 



Exi)ands 37"""; 1.50 inches. 



Habitat. — Sierra Nevada, California. 



This species has a casuarreseniblanco to munin, ojjijjcra, or dissona, bnt 

 is perhaps nearer to the Alpine, siniplonia than to any of our own si)ecies. 

 It is very distinct from its associates in every respect. There is but a 

 singlet fenjale from Mr. Edwards' collection known to me. 



Carueades lutulenta Smith. 

 18i)0. TniUH., Am. Eiit. Soc, xvii, r»l), Ayrotin. 



General color a luteous gray; sides of palpi dusk^ , a «lusky line ex- 

 tending from the eyes to the base of primaries; head and thorax else 

 immaculate. Primaries slightly blackish i)owdered, more distinct along 

 the inner margin, and darkening the terminal and outer part of s. t. 

 space. Basal line geminate, not %vell marked. T. a. line geminate, 

 outwardly slightly oblique, moderately outcnirved in the interspaces, a 

 long outcurve below internal vein; inner part of line obsolete, outer 

 very distinct. T. p. line narrow, creuulated, parallel with the outer 

 margin, interiorly becoming indefinite; outer part of line marked only 

 near costa and not continued as a series of venular dots. Median shade 

 indelinite, ditfuse, best marked between the ordinary spots, and with 

 some difficulty traceable below. Beyond the t. p. lina the s. t. space 

 darkens to the outer margin interrupted by the very tine, pale, irregu- 

 lar, and partly obsolete s. t. line. No dark terminal line or lunules, a 

 pale yellow line at base of fringes. Claviform wanting. Orbicular 

 round, pale ringed, not prominent, scarcely even distinct. Keniform 

 large, very vague, hot outlined, marked by a yellowish curved line, 

 which constitutes the outer margining line, and by a slight lateral ex- 

 tension of the median shade. Secondaries smoky fuscous, outwardly 

 somewhat darker. Beneath ])aler, more whitish, powdery, with an 

 outer liue and discal spot on all wings; primaries with disc fuscous and 

 outer line incomplete. 



Expands 34"'"'; 1.35 inches. 



Habitat. — Sierra Nevada, California. 



Very closely allied to hrunneigera Grote, with which it agrees in all 

 structural characters and in the ornamental characters determining its 

 reference to the mcssoria group. It differs in tlie pale ground color 

 the greater size of the ordinary spots and the distinct outer shade com- 

 bined with the partly obsolete s. t. line. 



Types, a male in the Rutgers College collection; others in collections 

 of Hy. Edwards and U. S. National Museum. 



