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on hind wing, and faint discal dots. Male antennpe simple, ciliate. Ex- 

 panse 38 mil. 



Agrotis minimalis n. sp. 



Allied to placida, but reddish like cupida. Fore tibiae unarmed. Orbic- 

 ular small, round, paler, with dark center; reniform small, dark. Median 

 shade diffuse, continuous, evident below reniform. Lines single, blackish, 

 followed by pale shades. Subterminal space dark red and contrasting with 

 pale terminal. A terminal row of dots, fringes concolorous. Hind wing 

 fuscous with concolorous fringes. Head and thorax reddish, concolorous. 

 Abdomen fuscous, flattened, with reddish anal hairs. Wings beneath fuscous, 

 shaded with red, with common line distinct on secondaries, on primaries 

 marked on costa. Discal dots better marked on hind wings. Palpi black 

 on sides. Expanse 33 mil. 



Agrotis verticalis n. sp. 



Allied to tessellata and campestris. Hind wings of the male white, like 

 nlbipennis; of the female, white, dusted with fuscous; in the male, a narrow 

 fuscous bordering before the white interlined fringes. Fore wings smooth, 

 dusky gray. Lines geminate, black; basal half-line distinct, and like the 

 anterior line, with an included pale streak. Orbicular large, ovate, decum- 

 bent, neatly black-ringed, the ring finely edged inwardly with pale. Reni- 

 form upright, ringed as orbicular, well-sized ; both stigmata concolorous. 

 Cell shaded before the orbicular, and centrally and again beyond the reni- 

 form, with reddish-brown in the female; in the male this is absent, or replaced 

 by a faint blackish shading. Subterminal space shaded with reddish brown, 

 or blackish on costa, where it includes pale ante-apical costal points. Pos- 

 terior line distinct on costa above the reniform, where it is like the other 

 lines; below, it becomes faint and denticulate. Subterminal line as in 

 campestris, pale. Terminal space blackish, leaving the apex paler. Two 

 specimens similarly sized with campestris. 



Pyrrhia stilla n. sp. 



Bright orange red, allied to angulata, rather than to exprimens. Base of 

 primaries bright smooth orange, without markings. Median shade strongly 

 contrasting, deep brown, forming a mesial baud, acutely augulate on cell, 

 even, diffuse exteriorly. Stigmata obsolete. Exterior line as in angulata, 

 obsolete on costa. Subterminal subobsolete. Fringes with a bright red tint. 

 Hind wings light yellow with blackish lunule, blackish at base, with a broad, 

 vague, blackish band, tinged with reddish outwardly. Beneath yellow; 

 fringes on primaries red; a red exterior baud touched with blackish in- 

 feriorly; a discal lunule. Secondaries with a diffuse red exterior band, 

 faint discal mark, above which costa touched with red. Expanse 36 mil. 



To the preceding descriptions by Mr. Grote, is added the following by Mr. 

 Geo. D. Hulst, of Brooklyn, N. Y., which completes the list of new species 

 of Noctuidcc taken at Idaho Springs, Colorado, by the Kansas University 

 Scientific Expedition of 1879: 



