REVISION OF SPECIES OF THE GENUS AGROTIS, 175 



beneath; inner line black, distinct, outer line imlelinite, incomplete, 

 brown. iS. t. line uiarivcd by the contrast between the evenly dark 

 terminal space and pale s. t. space, its coarse irregular. A dusky (post- 

 al shade in s. t. space before apex, leaving a paler apical si)ot. A 

 pale line at base of fringes. Claviform wanting. Orbicular large, 

 round concolorous, faintly outlined by a pale ring. Reniform large, 

 kidney-shai)ed, inferiorly dark filled, obscured by the median shade 

 which crosses the spot and then runs rather diffusely and close to the 

 t. p. line, darkening the outer part of median s[)ace. Cell between the 

 si)ots also dusky. Secondaries whitish, soiled, with a faint reddish 

 suffusion. Beneath pale, powdery, disc of primaries darker ; an outer 

 line and discal dot to all wings. 



Expands 30""" ; l.L'O inches. 



Habitat. — Northwest liritish Columbia, Utah. 



This very handsome species is readily recognized among its congeners 

 by the strong contrast between the blue-gray median and reddish 

 yellow or rusty red basal and s. t. spaces. It has all the characters of 

 the mc.ssoria group, but is uniipie among them all. The S[)ecimen now 

 before me is from Mr. N(mmoegen. 1 received it some time since from 

 Mr. Edwards, who had it, I think, from Utah. Some years since 1 re- 

 ceived the first specimen from the late Capt. D. IT. Murdock, Fort 

 Thornburgh, Utah, and this specimen is now in the U. S. National 

 Museum. From Captain Murdock 1 received many good species, and 

 it is nuitter for extreme regret that so good a collector in so fine a 

 locality shoidd have lost his life so unfortunately. 



Carneades quiiiquelinea Smith. 

 181)0 Smith, Trans. Am. i]nt. Soc, xvii, 49, Agrot'iH. 



■General color fuscous gray. Head concolorous, collar with a dusky 

 central line; thorax concolorous. Primaries evenly colored, the trans- 

 verse lines blackish. Basal line distinct, single. T. a. liue distinct, 

 ui)right, very sliglitly angiUate; median shade line distinct, broad, 

 very irregular. T. p. line single, . narrow, crenulate, its course as a 

 whole very nearly parallel to the outer margin. S. t. line consisting of 

 a narrow, dark shade line followed by some pale scales relieving and 

 defining the same ; an interrupted, very narrow terminal line. Sec- 

 ondaries and abdomen pale smoky fuscous. Claviform wanting, ordi- 

 nary spots barely traceable, concolorous, reniform inwardly marked by 

 a small black dot. Beneath pale, powdery fuscous, with an outer liue 

 and discal spot on all wings. 



Expands 35""" ; 1.40 inches. 



Habitat. — Sierra Nevada, California. 



This simply marked form is allied in appearance to tristicula or fusca, 

 but with the characters of the present group so far as they can be 

 made out from the single female before me. The single transverse lines 

 ar^ distiuctivy iu tUis seiies, 



