76 BULLETIN 44, UNITED STATES NATIONAL MUSEUM. 



N. havilae Grt.* 



1880. Grt., Bull. Geol. Snrv., vi, 157, cJandesHnavnT. 



1881. Grt., Papilio, i, 76, au sp. dist. 



1881. Butler, Papilio, i, 169, an sp. dist. 



Habitat. — Southern California in June ; Colorado. 

 The type is in the British Museum, and is like the National Museum 

 material in this species. 



N. subporphyrea Wlk. 



1858. Wlk., C. B. Mus., Het., xiv, 1658, Mythimna. 



1882. Grt., 111. Essay, 41, ? Agrotis. 



1891. Butler, Entomologist, xxiv, 238=Jf/>'. plnillophora. 



Habitat. — Georgia. 



The female type in the British Museum represents a species I had 

 not before seen. It is imiDerfect, lacking the abdomen ; but the front is 

 smooth; the foretibi* are spiuose and the palpi are as in eland estina. 

 It looks like a red altcniata ^vith all the maculation washed out, leav- 

 ing only the slightly paler median lines. Mr. Butler has placed ^^/ij//- 

 lo2)hora, alternata, varix, and variata under this name as representing 

 one species, and in the Entomologist, xxiv, 238, says: "Walker's type 

 is slightly faded and without abdomen, but is certainly typical A. phyl- 

 lophora, which it will probably supersede." This was published while 

 I was in England, but I did not see it until after my return, else I would 

 have made more detailed comjiarisons. The specimen did not even sug- 

 gest phyllophora to me, and it can not be that species ; first, because it 

 has none of its characteristic markings, and second, because it is from 

 Georgia, while phyUoplionii^ decidedly a Northern insect, and has never, 

 in my experience, been taken as far South as Washington, D. C, where 

 there have been good collectors at work. I believe the specimen to be 

 one of those taken by Abbot, and a species which has not been since 

 found. Among the unpublished drawings by Abbot in the British 

 Mnseum are a number of Noctuida^, that I never saw and that are cer- 

 tainly undescribed. Such species as Varina ornata Neum., described 

 only a year or two ago, Avere figured and the habits noted by Abbot, 

 and the specimens were afterward named by Walker. No onehas since 

 collected Lepidoptera systematically on Abbot's old ground, and Avhen 

 that is once done, I have no doubt that subporphyrea Wlk. will be re- 

 discovered. 



N. piscipellis Grt. 



1878. Grt., Can. Ent., x, 233, Agrotis. 



Habitat. — Colorado; Nevada; Arizona. 



The type is in the British Museum, and is like the specimens so named 

 by me. 



