48 BULLETIN 38, UNITED STATES NATIONAL MUSEUM. 



Eueretagrotis sigmoides Gii. 



1852. Gn., Sp. Gen. Noct., i, 325, Noctua. 



1856. Wlk., Cat. B. Mus. Het., x, 400, GrapMphora. 



Ground color smoky brown ; costa to t. x>. line, and apex paler, yellow- 

 ish. Cell before and between the ordinary spots, black ; a black basal 

 dash. T. a. line outwardly oblique, dentate, geminate, black, included 

 space yellowish. T. p. line faintly geminate, lunulate, interrupted, 

 slightly sinuate inwardly, with pale included shade. S. t. line pale, ir- 

 regular; inwardly marked at costa by a blackish patch. A row of black 

 terminal lunate dots. Olaviform concolorous, evidently outlined in 

 black. Ordinary spots concolorous, black ringed ; orbicular rounded, 

 reniform kidney-shaped. Secondaries even, fuscous. Thorax, patagise 

 concolorous, lined with blackish ; collar rich dark brown ; disc of thorax 

 pale, contrasting reddish yellow. Abdomen yellowish gray. Beneath, 

 powdery reddish fuscous, primaries with disc darker ; both wings with a 

 darker extra discal transverse line, and a large lunate discal spot. 



Expands 35-40"""; 1.40-1.60 inches. 



Habitat. — New York, Pennsylvania, New Jersey, Northern, Middle, 

 and Eastern States, Canada. 



The species is not rare, and is readily known by the prominent tho- 

 racic tufting, which is discolorous, yellowish. 



lu badly rubbed specimens there is sometimes doubt between this 

 species and lyerattenta^ but not when the specimens are in anything like 

 decent condition. 



Eueretagrotis perattenta Grt. 



1874. Grt., Can. Eut., vi, 131, Agrotis. 

 1832. Grt., 111. Essay, 51, pL 1, f. 7, Agrotis. 



" Color of A. attentus, but brighter, rosy brown and more like trian- 

 gulum, on account of the discal field before the orbicular and between 

 the spots being suffused with dark brown shading. Orbicular spherical 

 pale ; claviform indicated iu outline ; a deep brown shading accompanies 

 the basal dash, lleniform large and wider than in triangulum. Ordi- 

 nary lines distinct, geminate, dark brown ; t. p. line with its inner 

 line distinct, lunulate; its outer line lost against the darker brown 

 subterminai space, which is differentiated by its deeper color and which 

 it inwardly limits. Subterminai line indicated by the difference iu 

 color between the subterminai and terminal spaces, the latter concolo- 

 rous with the rest of the wing. Hind wings pale testaceous fuscous 

 in S , more fuscous in 9 . Beneath, a common fuscous line and dots ; 

 the tint is testaceous with fuscous powderings; fore wings the darker, 

 with ruddy costal edge." 



Expands 32-36'""'; 1.28-1.44 inches. 



Habitat. — Canada, Maine, Massachusetts, New York, New Jersey, 

 and the Northern and Eastern United States. 



