110 BULLETIN 44, UNITED STATES NATIONAL MUSEUM. 



might decide is not given. In color and maculation irorthhujtoni and 

 Jimhriaris agree wonderfully well, and both have leiigtliily pectinated 

 antennae. But jimhriaris has oddly short, broad wings, while the others 

 are normal for Porosagrotis. Walker's species has the "locality un- 

 known." 



Genus AGROTIPHILA Grt. 

 1875. Grt., Auu. Lye. Nat. Hist., N. Y., xi, 107. 



A. alaskee Grt.* 



1876. Grt., Bull. Buff. Soe. Nat. Sci., iii, 84, pi. 4, f. 1, A<jroii8. 



1890. Smith, Bull. U. S. Nat. Mus., No. 38, 54, AgiolijjhUa. 



Habitat. — Alaska. 



The type is in the British Museum. 



A. staudingeri MoescIiL* 



1862. Moesclil., Wien. Eiit. Moiiatschr., vi, 132, pi. i, f. L Afjrotia. 



1891. Smith, List Lepidoptora, 40, Agrotiphila. 



1891. Smith, Trans. Am. Ent. Soc,, xviii, 133, A(jro(iphila. 



montana Morr. 

 1875. Morr., Ann. Lye. Nat. Hist., N. Y., xi, 95, Atjrotis. 

 1875. Grt., Ann. Lye. Nat. Hist., N. Y., xi, 107, AyrotipMla. 

 1875. Grt., List Noctuidae, 17, AgroUphila. 

 1891. Smith, List Lepidoptera, iO^^^staudinaeri. 

 1891. Smith, Trans. Am. Ent. Soc., xviii, lo5 = staudingeri. 



detracta Wlk. 



HABITAT. — Labrador; White Mountains; Montana; Colorado 12,000 

 feet, July 22 to August 12. 



The type of detracta is in the British Museum; that of staudingeri I 

 have seen by the courtesy of Mr. Moeschler, and there are specimens 

 named by Moeschler in the Berlin Museum. Mr. Morrison's type is in 

 the Tepper collection. These all refer to one siiecies, no specimens from 

 Colorado being in any collection. I have been unable to tind any de- 

 scription for detract a y^\k.^ and it may be that the name will pro^e the 

 earliest if it is at all xjublished. 



A. Colorado Smith.* 

 1891. Smith, Trans. Am. Ent. Soc., xviii, 133, AgrotipMla. 



Haitat. — South Park, Colorado. 



Types are in the National Museum and in the Neumcegen collection. 



A. rigida Smith, 



189L Smith, Trans. Am. Ent. See., xviii, 133, AgroUphila. 



Habitat. — South Park, Colorado. 

 The type is in Mr. Keumoegen's collection. 



This geiuis connects Agrotis with Anarta., and emphasizes also the 

 Heliothine tendencies of Forosagrotis and Carneadcs. 



