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Abdomen and underside whitish. Wings with a marginal line 

 of brown lunules. Forewings with ths basal, interior and exte- 

 rior lines pale, blackish bordered ; first and second undulating ; 

 third bent ; orbicular and reniforra marks partly pale-bordered, 

 not distinct ; costa with three pale points towards the tip ; under- 

 side with a blackish discal mark and a blackish exterior line. 

 Hindwings white, diffusedly cinereous-bordered ; underside like 

 that of the forewings. Length of the body 5 lines; of the wings 

 12 lines." Walker M.S.S, 



2. C ? velata, Walker M.S.S., N. Sp.— July. 



" F(Bm, Ferruginea ; abdomen subcarinatum ; alse cupreo sub- 

 tinctse ; anticse lineis quatuor indistinctis nigricantibus, 1 a 2 a 

 que undulatis, 3 a 4 a que denticulatis, orbicular! et reniformi 

 parvis, hac alba ; posticae cinerese." 



" Female. Ferruginous, cinereous beneath. Palpi obliquely 

 ascending rising a little higher than the vertex ; third joint lan- 

 ceolate, less than half the length of the second. Abdomen 

 slightly keeled. Wings with a slight cupreous tinge. Forewings 

 with four indistinct blackish lines ; first and second lines undu- 

 lating ; third and fourth denticulated ; marginal line very indis- 

 tinct ; orbicular and reniform marks small, the former cinereous 

 and indistinct, the latter white ; underside with the usual discal 

 mark and exterior line blackish. Hindwings cinereous. Length 

 of the body 5 lines, of the wings 12 hues." Walker M.S.S. 



Family, NOCTUIDiE, GuSn. 



{Cut-worms are larvae of moths of this family.) 

 Genus 1. Agrotis, Ochs. 

 1. A. suffusa, W. Verz. — On treacle, beginning of October. 



Distribution. — Philadelphia (E. Doubleday) ; Orillia, C. W., 



(Bush) ; St. Martin's Palls, Albany River, 

 Hudson's Bay, (D. Barnston) ; Nova Scotia, 

 (Redman), (Eu. and every part of the 

 world). 

 2. A. spissa, Guln. — Common, July to September. 



Distribution. — United States, (Doubleday) ; Nova Scotia, (Red- 

 man.) 

 3. A. jaculifera, Guln. — Common, July and August. 



Distribution. — New York, (B.M.C.) 

 . A. venerabilis, PTa^Aier. — Common, sitting on blossoms of the Golden- 

 rod by day in September. 

 Distribution. — Nova Scotia, (Redman.) 



