196 I5ULLETIN 38, UNITED STATES NATIONAL MUSEUM., 



to a row of small veuular clots which are sometimes wanting ; sometimes 

 the entire line is scarcely traceable. {3. t. line irregular, coucolorous, 

 marked only by the dusky terminal space and by a vague preceding 

 shade ; a series of small terminal lunules. Claviform indefinitely out- 

 lined, concolorous. Orbicular oval, of good size, black ringed, gray 

 powdered. Keuiform large, kidney shaped, narrowly black ringed, con- 

 colorous or slightly paler, somewhat leaden filled inferiorly. The spots 

 are always distinct, but somewhat variable in point of definition, some- 

 times incompletely outlined. The space between the spots is darker, 

 but never black or prominent. One specimen shows a black spot pre- 

 ceding the orbicular, and another has the entire maculatiou obscured, 

 the ground color paler than normal. Secondaries smoky fuscous, the 

 veins darker, discal lunule of underside visible. Beneath powdery fus- 

 cous, with a discal spot on all wings and a variably distinct outer line. 

 In one specimen the line is wanting entirely. 



Expands 38-40""" ; 1.50-1.00 inches. 



Habitat. — Sierra Nevada, California. 



This species is allied to hasalis and solitaria, having all the structural 

 characters of the teasellata group. In superficial appearance it strongly 

 resembles saucia, and I am very sure I have seen the species mixed with 

 saucia in collections. The tuberculate front and the structure of the 

 antennte will serve to distinguish the present species at once. It has 

 the wing form oi saucia rather than tessellata, and by this character and 

 the dusky terminal space bears some resemblance to the cinereomaculata 

 form of ochrogaster Gn. 



The species seems tolerably common judgingfrom the number of speci- 

 mens sent. 



Types in the Rutgers College collection, collection of Hy. Edwards, and 

 collection U. S. National Museum. Mr. Neumoegen also has specimens 

 in his collection. 



Carneades ochrogaster Gu. 



1852. Gn., Sp. Geu., Noct., i, 327, Noctua. 

 1856. Wlk., C. B. Mils., Lep., Hot. x, 408, Ochroj)leura. 

 1880. Grfc., Bull. Geol. Suiv., vi, 5G6, Agrotis. 

 cinereomaculata Morr. 



1874. MoiT., Proc. Bost. Soc. N. H., xvii, 104, Agrotis. 



1875. Grt., Cau. Eut., vii, 226, Agrotis. 



1875. Grt., Proc. Ac. Nat. Sci. Phil. 1875, 423, Agrotis. 



gularis Grt. 

 1875. Grt., Proc. Ac. Nat. Sci., Phil. 1875, 424, Agrotis. 



9 turris Grt. 

 1875. Grt., Can. Ent., vii, 226, Agrotis. 

 1880, Grt., Bull. Geol. Surv., vi, ^2, = gularis. 

 From bright clay yellow suffused with reddish to distinct red brown. 

 In pale specimens median space more brown or reddish ; terminal space 

 darker fuscous ; costa somewhat paler. A distinct basal black shade 

 reaching to t. a. line and continued beyond that line as the black clav- 



