REVISION OF SPECIES OF THE GKXU.S A(iKOTIS. '20l 



powdery, an exteriuil coniinoii line aucl discal spot. Thorax and head 

 coucolorous ; colhir with a thirk line. 



Expands 39""" ; 1.55 inches. 



Uaihtat. — Icehind, Labrador. 



Closely allied to obeliscoides, the typical maciilatiou entirely present. 

 It differs from that species in the comparatively longer, narrower pri- 

 maries, the non-C()ntrastin<j^ ordinary spots, and in the position of tlie t. 

 p. line, which in oheliscoidcs is very close to the renilonn, l>nt in i.slantlica 

 is far beyond it, half way to the outer margin. This widens the median 

 and narrows s. t. space in this species. 



The (lcscrii)tion is introduced here only because the species has so 

 long- been catalogued in our lists and has been entirely mistaken. 1 do 

 not think it has ever been found in North America, but very likelj' will 

 be found in Alaska or in the Hudson Bay territory. Tiie locality (Lab- 

 rador) given by Staudiger is based upon opipara Morr., which is not 

 this species at all. 



Carneades colata Grt. 



1S81. Grt., Can. Ent., xiii, 131, Jtjrotis. 



'• 9 Like veysipeUis, but a little larger and without the white lines on 

 the veins. Entirely dark, purply brown ; thorax and head reddish 

 brown. Stigmata a little hoary ; orbicular large, open ; reniform wide; 

 claviform indicated. Lines very faint; an indistinct, paler shade fol- 

 lowing the t. p. line; the terminal space also indistinctly paler. Hind 

 "wiiygs concolorous dark fuscous. Mount llood, one fresh female speci- 

 men. Can not be confounded with any other species from the color 

 and its affinity with rTrs/^^e/Z/s." 



No specimen to which this description could be fitted has been found 

 as yet. The characters given would seem to indicate a species close to 

 tessellata^ but the open orbicular forbids the suggestion that it may be 

 a form of that protean species. 



Two female specimens in Mr. Neumoegen's collection, seen since the 

 above was written, may perhaps be referable here. They were taken 

 in the Sierra Nevadas, and agree fairly well with the above description, 

 save that in one case the orbicular is complete and in the otlier it is 

 simi>ly not comi»letely outlined above. I have named these specimens 

 colata provisionally, until an opportunity for the study of the type 

 occurs. Tlie si)ecies is correctly placed near vc)'si2)clli!i, whicii it re- 

 sembles in the manner suggested by Mr. Grote. 



Carneades divergens Wlk. 



1856. Wlk., C. R. Mns., Lcp. Ilet., x, 327, Agrotis. 



versipelUs Grt. 

 187r>. GrL, Can. Ent., vii, 172, pi. i, f. 9, Afjrotis. 

 1879. Grt., Bull. Geol. Siirv., v, 206, Afjrotis. 

 1869. Butler, Traus. Eut. Soc. Lond, 1889, 380 pr. syn. 



Red to dark blackish brown ; terminal space usually a little darker; 

 cell black; subcostal and median vein distinctly white to end of cell; 



