204 BULLETIN 38, UNITED STATES NATIONAL MUSEUM. 



Expands 38""" ; 1.5 iuches. 



Habitat. — California, Nevada, Arizona. 



Easily recognizable by the pale color and lack of transverse macula- 

 tion. It conflicts with no other species of the group except perhaps 

 tesselloides, and it may eventually claim that species as a variety. There 

 is, however, an ashen gray tinge to tesselloides which is replaced in this 

 species by a yellowish tint. The difference is not a very great one, but 

 suffices to change very completely the habitus of the species. 



Carneades strigilis Grt. 

 1876. Grt., Buff. Bull., in, 81, Agrotis. 



" 9 . All the tibia spinose, belonging to the tessellata group. Fore- 

 wings, thorax, and head blackish fuscous, somewhat olivaceous; at 

 base of head and collar some ochrey scales. The transverse lines are 

 obsoletely geminate; the white or gray included shades are prominent 

 and relieve the accompanying dark transverse lines. Lines dentate, 

 nearly jierpendicular. Stigmata moderately large, shaded with whit- 

 ish ; claviform concolcrous, barely' indicated. Terminal space a little 

 paler. S. t. line fine, powdery gray ; fringes concolorous. Hind wings 

 pale fuscous, with paler interlined fringes. Beneath translucent cen- 

 trally with powdered costal region, faint discal mark and line." 



Expands 32""" ; 1.28 inches. 



Habitat. — Vancouver Island (Mr. Hy. Edwards). 



I have not been able to identify this satisfactorily. There are two or 

 three doubtful forms in this group-to which 1 have hesitated in apply- 

 ing names, and to one or the other of them — all from California — this 

 name may i^rove applicable. 



SPECIES UNKNOWN TO ME. 

 Agrotis dapsilis Grote. 

 1880. Grote, Bull. Geol. Surv., vi, 582, Agrotis. 



Front smooth, vestiture hairy, antennte of ^ bi pectin ate. Pale ash- 

 gray, powdered with blackish. Transverse lines consisting of a series 

 of blackish, vcnular spots. S. t. line faintly marked by a slight differ- 

 ence in tint between s. t. and terminal space. A dusky terminal line. 

 Orbicular a small blackish spot. Reniform narrow, dusky, upright. 

 Secondaries outwardly dusky. 



Expands 31"""; 1.25 inches. 



Habitat. — Florida. 



To the kindness of Mr. Thaxter, I owe an opportunity of examining 

 the type. It is in miserably poor condition, and it is impossibly to say 

 certainly where it belongs in the series. The middle legs alone remain ; 

 a stump about 1""" long of the left antenna) is all that remains of those 

 organs ; and last and most provoking there is a 9 body pasted on what 



