348 GROTE AND ROBINSON. 



and narrow inner rufous line; the space between the two being pale 

 and prominent as with the transverse anterior line. Beyond the t. p. 

 line the wing is shaded on costa with dark obscure rufous enclosing 

 three pale dots. The incomplete subterminal line is preceded by a 

 pale shade below costal region, aud is succeeded by one much narrower 

 emanating from an apical discoloration. The narrow terminal space is 

 obscurely colored, being mixed with blackish scales; fringes dark dull 

 rufous. 



Secondaries testaceous, tinged with reddish and shaded with cinere- 

 ous scales, leaving a narrow terminal space clear ; fringes somewhat 

 strongly tinged with reddish. A discal murk and a narrow dark in- 

 terrupted terminal line on the margin. Beneath, the wings are pale, 

 tinged with reddish and powdered evenly with dark scales ; from the 

 apex of the primaries downwards, the external margin is narrowly 

 shaded with white intermixed scales. Narrow terminal black lines on 

 both wings, and prominent blackish discal lunules. Fringes pale ru- 

 fous, darker tipped on primaries. 



Expanse^ 27 m.m. Length ofhoihj^ 10 m. m. 



Habitat. — Atlantic District. (Trenton Falls, N. Y., Mr. Jamna 

 Ridings .') 



This species is readily distinguished from X. ralla, by its dull pur- 

 ple-red or rufous color, by the darker secondaries, and the details of 

 the ornamentation, although very similar to it in size and form. 



AGROTIS, Treit. 

 Agrotis collaris, n. sp. (Plate 7, iig. 5-''>, 9-) 



S 9- Size moderate; form slender. Blackish, somewhat silky. 

 Frontal squamae and tips of palpi mixed grey; elsewhere the thickly 

 haired palpi are blackish-brown. Antennae slender, clothed above with 

 dark greyish scales. Legs brownish, mixed with pale scales; hind ti- 

 biae with two pair of spurs. The under thoracic sqaraation is rather 

 long aud tinged with obscure reddish. Above, the prothoracic pieces 

 are covered with intensely blackish-brown close scales, contrasting for- 

 cibly with the paler color of the head and thorax. Patagia and thora- 

 cic disc concolorous, smoothly scaled, mixed gray, nearly concolorous 

 with primaries. Abdomen slender, smooth, blackish ciuereous, a little 

 darker than the secondaries. 



Anterior wings elongate, narrow, widening to external margin. The 

 ground color is blackish-brown, but so closely and evenly mixed with 

 grey scales as to give a greyish hue. Ornamentation simple and dis- 

 tinct; the lines narrow and pule. A basal line, beyond which is the 

 transverse anterior, which is even, somewhat outwardly oblique and 



