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Again another has a reddish cast, reiniudiug one of cup Ida, but with pale 

 terminal space." 



In my own experience the ground color varies from dark clay yellow 

 to a purplish graj' in one direction, and deep red brown, sprinkled with 

 bluish gray, in another. The arrangement of the lines and spots is 

 essentially as in ciqrida, but the maculation is not so evident, there is 

 no black costal patch initiating the s. t. line, which is also more even 

 and the terminal space is always paler, often contrasting bluish gray 

 to a dark red ground color. The palpi are somewhat shorter, the pri- 

 maries proportionately a little shorter and wider, while the size is gener- 

 ally decidedly smaller. The genitalia are also different from those of 

 cupida as shown on PI. Ii, f. 4. 



Expands 25-35"">^; 1-1.40 inches. 



Habitat. — New York, Nevada, Colorado, Utah, Arizona. 



Nothing has been written of the larva so far as I know. The species 

 is much more common in the Western States, and is rather more nearly 

 allied to forms at home there than to cupida or alternata. 



Mr. Butler would see in this species a 9 form of cupida merely. 



Rhynchagrotis variata Grote. 



1876. Grt., Bull. Buft'. Soc. N. Sci., in, 83, pi. 4, f. 12, Agrotis. 



1883. Grt., Pr. Am. Phil. Soc, xxr, 155, Jgrotis. 



1889. Butl.. Trans. Ent. Soc. Loud., 1S8'J, 382 =j;/(^//ojj/iora. 



rarix Grt. 

 1876. Grt., Bull. Buff. Soc. N. Sci., in, 83, Agroits. 

 1882. Grt., New List, an vur., pr. ? 

 1889. Butl., Trans. Eut. Soc. Loudon, 1889, ?m=pliyllopliora. 



"Terminal space pale; this species differs by the more irregular, 

 pale, powdery s. t. line, relieved from the pale terminal shading by 

 the ground color of the wing obtaining beyond it. The dark fore wings 

 are stained with ocherous. The geminate lines with pale included 

 shades are well defined and inaugurated with black costal dots. Stig- 

 mata concolorons, ill defined; orbicular round, moderately large; reni- 

 forin upright, narrow; both detioed by narrow, pale yellowish annuli, 

 a diffuse pale x)owdering over the place of the claviform. Collar, head 

 and palpal tips grayish ; palpi black at the sides : thorax like fore 

 wings. Hind wings dark fuscous with interlined fringes, beneath with 

 common line straightly marked with black on costa of primaries." 



The above is Mr. Grote's original characterization. In my experience 

 it varies from pale to deep red brown, occasionally more yellowish. 

 The median lines usually consist only of the included pale shade and 

 are often very diffuse, powdery. The form named varix by Mr. Grote 

 he characterized as follows : 



"Like the preceding with pale terminal space. Of a pale drab or 

 gray olive fuscous. Markings much like the preceding \variata], from 

 which it seems to differ in color, in the greater width of the geminate 



