92 BULLETIN 38, UNITED STATES NATIONAL MUSEUM. 



Deep gray shaded outwardly to red brown or blackish lubkicans. 



Primaries, trigonate ; outer margin, oblique; a distinct angulation at middle. 

 Palpi clavate ("id joint), ordinary spots obsoletely marked ; all concolorous ; ash 



gray to blackish vocalis. 



Palpi subequal throughout ; broader winged. 



Front blackish ; ordinary spots defined, cell blacki^5h ; color, gray. 



OrAClFltONS. 



Head and collar pale gray; wings ocherous, with gray margins; ordinary 

 spots confluent - pallidicolis. 



Noctua haruspica Grt. 



1875. Grt., Buff. Bull., u,'2\-2, Aurotis. 



1875. Grt., Proc. Ac. Nat. Sci. Phil. 1875, 4*24, A<jroti8. 



1876. Grt., Bull. Geol. Surv., ii, 214, Jgrotis. 

 188'). Smith, Ent. Amer., I, 13, Agrotin. 



1885. Smith, Stett. Ent. Zeit., 4(3, 222, Agrotin. 

 1889. Butler, Trans. Ent. Soc. Loud. 188'J, 38'2, draphiphora. 

 niiimaciila Morr. 



1874. Morr., Proc. Bjst. Soc. N. H., xvii, IIG, Agyoti8. 

 187.5. Grt., Buff. Bull., ii, 212, n. b. 1. 



(jrandis Speycr. 



1875. Speyor, Stett. Ent. Zeit., 36, 122, var anij\tr. 



1876. Speyer, Stett. Ent. Zeit., 37, 201 — var aitijur. 



1884. Moeschl, Verli. k. k. zool. bot. Ges. 



1885. Smith, Ent. Amer., i, 13, an sp. dist., oiujiir. 

 augur Gu. 



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



1856. Wlk., C. B. Mas., Lep. Het., x, 387, Graphiphora. 



Eveu dark smoky browu. Transverse lines black, usually distinct, 

 single. Basal line evident. T. a. line outwardly oblique, scalloped 

 between tlie lines. T. p. linecrenulate, parallel with outer margin. S. 

 t. line very faint, pale, irregularly sinuate and dentate. Ordinary spots 

 large, concolorous, of the usual shape, more or less completely outlined 

 by a narrow black line. Claviform barely indicated. Secondaries yel- 

 lowish fuscous. Beneath smoky powdery, with a. common line and dis- 

 cal lunule dark. Head and thorax concolorous, with prinuiries. 



Expands 44""", 1.75 inches. 



Habitat — i^forthern and Eastern United States, Utah aiul Canada. 



This species will probably be found everywhere in the North and 

 Northwest. Its large size and somber color, reiuler it distinct. 



I liave pointed out for the tirst time in Ent. Amer., i, 13, the real dis- 

 tinctive characters between this species and the European augur. Ar- 

 guments based on size and maculation would have left the matter an 

 opinionative one for all time. The structure of the sexual characters 

 proves the distinctness of the American form beyond all doubt. 



Mr. Butler Siiys augur is the type of Graphiphora Ochs., in which 

 case the application of the name to the Taniocampa series by ]\Ir. Grote 

 would be unwarranted. 



