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was obviously a S . Tlio species is thorouji:lily aberrant for an Agrotis, 

 but there is not enouj^h of it reniaininf^f to dispute the generic reference. 

 It seems to suggest my tcpperi to some extent and may lind a i)hice 

 near it when good fortune turns up other specimens. 



Agrotis littoralis I'ack. 

 1868. Pack., Proc. Host. Soc. Nat. Hist., xi, 3G, Jyrotia. 



5 of a uuitorm glossy, i)ale^ luteous, tawny brown; antenuiu well 

 pectinated ; palpi very large and stout, with long cilia beneath ; third 

 joint long, porrect, cylindrical, acute. Front concolorous witli thorax 

 and abdomen being of a pale brown. Fore wings smooth, on the basal 

 third of the wing a black, irregularly, quadridentate line, the teetli 

 between the nervures ]K)inting outwards between the median, s. m., and 

 internal nervures, but directed inwards on the median space, then curv- 

 ing outwards on the costa nearly' to the middle of the inner discal circle, 

 which is large and formed by a simple, brown, unshaded ring. The 

 outer reniform spot is large and shaded on the inner half, especially on 

 the lower end at the origin of the mesial nervures. Beyond is a simple 

 line, broadly curved opposite the reniform, from the outer third of the 

 costa to the inner third of the hind margin. Beyond is a parallel line of 

 dark streaks of uniform length, and beyond is a submarginal line, 

 diffusely shaded inwards and forming a diffuse, triangular, dusky spot 

 on the costa, below which is an angular sinus; on the submedian fold 

 it is bent inwards. A marginal dark line, scarcely interrupted at the 

 nervures. Fringe long, concolorous with the rest of the wing. Hind 

 wings a little more dusky than the anterior pair ; pale on the costa, 

 ^(\^Q dark, fringe pale, tawny, concolorous witii the costa. Thorax 

 darker than the body. Beneath dusky, with a diffuse, dusky, discal 

 spot and two parallel dusky lines. Beyond, a broad paler margin. On 

 the hind wings is a lunate discal spot, and an outer, diffuse, duskier- 

 shaded spot on the costa. Length of body .02, fore wing .00 inch. 



Differs in its fore wings, being of a uniform tawny color, with a plain 

 ringlet and large reniform dot, with the rows of dots beyond; and by 

 the well pectinate antenna'. Labrador, Caribou Island. 



Apparently near vianifesta, but very different from anything known 

 to me. I did not find this in the Peabodj* Museum, and never saw any- 

 thing like it elsewhere. 



Agrotis hero Morr. 



187G. Morr., Proc. Best. Soc. N. H., xviii, 238, Jgrotis. 

 1880. Grt., Bull. Geol. Surv., vi, 160, Agrotis. 



" Related to coUaris and ha<linodis Grt., separated from them by the 

 unarmed fore tibia. Collar black and discolorous above. Thorax con- 

 colorous with the anterior wings. Anterior wings crossed by two tine 

 simple dark brown lines, the first preceded, the second followed by a 

 pale accompanying shade. Ordinary spots not very well tlefined, 



