238 PROCEEDINGS OF THE \ IY7"\ 1/ UUSEl 1/. vol.38. 



One female, Zacualpan, State of Vera Cruz, Mexico, June, 1909 

 (K. Midler). 



Type.— Cat. No. 12951, U.S.N.M. 



Also four females from Cuernavaca, State of Morelos, Mexico. 

 June and July, 1096 (W. Schaus). The species is allied to Agrotis 

 mizteca Schaus (=mysteca Hampson), but is much larger, the costal 

 shade diffused outwardly, the cell not black filled, and the lines 

 different. 



AGROTIS AGIS, new species. 



I lead and thorax dark brown without markings; abdomen oeherous 

 brown, overlaid with blackish dorsally, dark red-brown on the sides 

 and beneath. Legs dark red-brown, blackish on the tarsi, the fore 

 tibia 4 and tarsi light ocher-brown in front, fore wing oeherous brown 

 in subbasal space and terminally, violaceous brown in the small basal 

 space and median space; lines violet brown, not strongly contrasted, 

 geminate, the subbasal line bounding the basal space, inner line strongly 

 angled outward in the cell, elsewhere coarsely crenulate; otiter line 

 parallel to outer margin in its course except near the cost a where it 

 bends in slightly, finely crenulate on the veins; orbicular a large 

 narrow brown ring, open above; reniform very large, outlined in 

 brown, with a blackish cloud in its lower half; claviform obsolete; 

 subterminal line red-brown, crenulate, diffused inwardly, forming a 

 slightly dislocated blotch on the costa; a row of terminal black dots 

 between the veins; fringe concolorous with the terminal space. Hind 

 wing fuscous, the veins darker, the fringe clay colored, touched with 

 brown at the ends of the veins. Expanse, 49 mm. 



One female, Zacualpan, State of Vera Cruz, Mexico, September, 

 1909 (R. Midler). 



Type.— Cat. No. 12952, U.S.N.M. 



Not (dosely allied to any Mexican Agroti* known to me. 



Genus EUCOPTOC N EM IS Grote. 



EUCOPTOCNEMIS APHRONUS, new species. 



Head and tegulae ocher gray, thorax gray, without markings. 

 Fore wing rather light gray, powdered with darker, the dark scales 

 predominating in the terminal space: a small black mark close to the 

 base below median vein; inner line of the ground color, relieved by 

 an inward dark shade, slightly irregular, produced outward below 

 vein 1 ; cell between the inner line and orbicular and again between 

 orbicular and reniform filled in with black; a small oblique black 

 dash ou submedian fold below orbicular; orbicular and reniform 

 large, concolorous, outlined in clay color, I he orbicular with a small 

 point toward the reniform, its upper inner angle open; outer line of 

 the ground color, limited within by a narrow dark line, without by 

 the powdering of the subterminal space: subterminal line, pale, of 



