REVISION OF SPECIES OF THE GENUS AGROTIS 213 



fuscescente cineream iiicliidento,; orbiculari et renifonni ui^ro niarj^i- 

 iiatis; posticie cinerciu, apiul maigiueiu obscuriores, piiiicto discali 

 veiiisque nigricantibus. 



"Female. — Brownish cinereous, minutely black speckled. Palpi ob- 

 liquely ascending, not risinji: near so high as the vertex; second joint 

 with short hairs; third, extremely small. Antenna) very mimitely 

 setulose. Abdomen cinereous, extending a little beyond the hind 

 wings. Fore wings with three transverse double black lines , first near 

 the base, very incomplete; second, dentate on the inner side of the or- 

 bicular mark ; third, denticulate beyond the reniform mark. Submar- 

 ginal line zigzag, of the ground hue, but distinguished by the blackish 

 shade which it traverses; marginal line composed of black Innules; or- 

 bicular and reniform marks blackish bordered, the former oblique and 

 oblong, the latter of the usual for?n. Hind wings cinereous, darker 

 toward the exterior border; discal point and veins blackish; friuge 

 whitisii. Length of the body, 7 lines; of the wings, 18 lines. 



"West Canada. In the Rev. Mr. Bethuue's collection." 



Of the other names in the lists A. nivcivenosa Grt. is an Hadcna; A. 

 'planaliH Grt. is a Twniocampid,, exact genus not made out from the 

 specimen ; A. pyrophiloidcs Harv. is not referable to the Agrotids, but 

 has not yet received any place ; Pachnobia alaslca' Grt. is ati Agrotiphlla 

 and belongs near Anarta rather than Agrotis. Mr. Morrison's names 

 are all accounted for, and his species, with two exceptions only, identi- 

 fied. I believe I have all of Guenee's species properly placed, and only 

 the Walkeriau species are in doubt. Of these 1 have given trans(!ripts 

 of all referred to Agrotis. They may belong almost anywhere else, and 

 on the contrary there is every reason to believe that some of his species 

 of Mamcstra are really referable to this group of genera. It will require 

 careful comparison by some one with a thorough knowledge of our own 

 fauna to identify these species satisfactorily. 



Mr. Streck-er, in his Lep. Rhop. et Het., 70, records Agrotis porph/rea 

 ITbn. from Labrador, a determination which I deem extremely question- 

 able. Staudinger gives central and boreal, not arctic, Europe in the 

 distribution, which does not accord well with a Labrador habitat. I 

 have therefore omitted all reference to the species elsewhere, but call 

 attention to the matter here for what it is worth. 



