182 BULLETIN 38, UNITED STATES NATIONAL MUSEUM. 



Color pale red or luteoiis brown, wiugs louder, apices more produced. 



Basal space pale; ordinary spots large, pale basalis. 



Basal space concolorons ; ordinary spots small, yellow ; transverse lines pale, 



SOLITARIA. 



Color luteous brown; ordinary spots large; tuftings gray tipped; ordinary 



lines narrow, not pale nostra 



Basal dash of primaries present. 

 Primaries elongate, subequal, color yellow to dark red brown; transverse lines 



obsolete, ordinary spots concolorons ochkogasiek 



Primaries shorter, more trigonate, apices rectangular. 

 Costa blue gray, ordinary spots gray ; orbicular oblong, obli(ine, open superi- 

 orly, costa straight idahoensis. 



As before; orbicular V-shaped; a series of distinct sagittate spots before s. t. 



line FURTIVUS. 



As before; orbicular round, incomplete ; costa convex; maculation obsolete, 



westermani. 

 Costal region and ordinary spots white, contrasting ; reniform unusually large ; 



wings wider, costa arched ^ obeliscoides. 



Costal region and ordinary spots yellow to ferruginous, to lilac graj' ; size 



larger ; costa less arched ; wings narrower i.vfelix. 



Costal region and ordinary spots clay yellow, not contrasting; primaries more 



even, sub-parallel islandica. 



Costa concolorons; subcostal and median veins white; ordinary spots ringed 



and powdered with white divergens. 



Costal half of basal space, and the largo onlinary spots bluish gray; primaines 



stumpy REDIMICULA. 



Dull luteous; transverse lines ol)Solete; ordinary spots rather small atrifera. 

 Primaries long, trigonate, apices produced ; colors gray. 



Dark gray, powdery; ordinary spots paler; transverse maculation distinct, 



TESSELLOIDES. 



Pale, whitish; ordinary spots concolorons ; transverse maculation indistinct, 



SILENS. 



Carneades fernaldi Morr, 



1875. Morr, Proc. Ac. Nat. Sci. Phil., 1875, 429, Af/rotis. 

 1882. Grt., 111. Essay, .53, pi. i, f. 11, Agrotis. 



Fuscous brown, waslied with lilac gray ; transverse lines very dis- 

 tinct, even, geminate, the included space gray ; the basal space most 

 densely powdered with gray scales. T. a. line very oblique outwardly, 

 its course very slightly sinuate ; t. p. line nearly parallel to outer mar- 

 gin ; the inferior portion of median space very narrow. S. t. line lilac 

 gray, irregular ; inwardly determinate, outwardly shading into a gray 

 suffusion of the terminal space. Claviform small, outlined. Ordi- 

 nary spots large, defined, powdered with gray ; cell before and between 

 the spots black. Secondaries dusky, a marked discal and terminal 

 pale line. Beneath dusky, with an extra discal pale common line and 

 darker discal spots. Head and thorax lilac gray. 



Expands 37""" ; 1.5 inches. 



Habitat — Maine. 



A very handsome species and so well marked that there can be no 

 mistaking it. 1 have seen only the type in Mrs. Fernald's collection. 



