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suffused with reddish-brown. Median space darker. Basal half-line deep 

 black. Median lines, dentate and excavate, deep black, approximate. Costal 

 region diffusely gray shaded. Claviforra moderate, deep black. Orbicular 

 concolorous, large, rounded. \Reniform subequal, upright, subquadrate; disk 

 blackish. Exterior line, moderately produced and excavate, marked by vein 

 points. Subterminal line faint, vague, broken. A fine slightly uneven ter- 

 minal black line. Fringes concolorous. Hind wings pale fuscous, with red- 

 dish fringes concolorous with those on primaries. Thorax concolorous, with 

 mesial ridge, without markings except a faint line on collar. Beneath pale, 

 tinged with reddish, with traces of a common line. Expanse 38 mil. 



Agrotis caenis n. sp. 

 Allied to luhrieans, but without any line on the collar; the t. p. line more 

 inwardly oblique. Dark gray, shaded and splashed with red. Markings 

 all indistinct and the lines broken. Orbicular round, moderate, gray, with 

 darker center; reniform of the usual shape, upright, excavate outwardly, 

 gray, with dark center. Lines marked by black and pale costal dots. Fringes 

 fuscuous with a pale line at base. Thorax and head concolorous with fore 

 wings, shaded with reddish ; palpi black at the sides. Hind wings white, 

 with white fringes and diffusely shaded with fuscous along exterior border. 

 Beneath, hind wings white, fore wings pale fuscous. Expanse 42 mil. 



Agrotis catenula n. sp. 

 All the tibise spinose; male antennae brush -like. Allied to muraenula; 

 differs in color, and t. p. line not followed by white dots. Gray white, indis- 

 tinctly olivaceous or ochraceous, concolorous ; thorax immaculate. Palpi 

 with black scales on basal and second joint at the sides. Lines indicated by 

 black costal spots. Orbicular, a black mark ; .reniform, reduced, black. 

 Exterior line broken into black dots, a large dot on internal margin and 

 costa. Half-line indicated; t. a. line incomplete; subterminal obsolete; a 

 maginal row of black points. Fringes concolorous. Hind wings pellucid 

 white, with white fringes clouded with fuscous along external margin, and 

 with the veins soiled. Beneath whitish; cell of primaries fuscous; a discal 

 lunule and faint exterior line; a black dot on hind wings. Expanse 36 mil. 



Agrotis decipiens n. sp. 

 All the tibise spinose. Rather slender bodied and long winged. Belongs 

 to Ammoconia, since the thorax shows a sharp mesial ridge. Leaden gray, 

 concolorous, the median space clouded with blackish. Orbicular large, 

 rounded or slightly oblique, gray, or with darker center; reniform large, 

 upright, slightly mesially constricted. Lines indistinct, double; half-line 

 black, single. Subterminal space gray, in one specimen this and the internal 

 margin shows a faint brownish tinge. Subterminal line commencing with 

 a blackish shade and then running outwardly and near the margin, leaving 

 the apices gray. Beneath with a faint purplish tinge. Breast purplish 

 black. Wings with common litfe, double on primaries, marked on the veins 



