March, 1903.] SmITH : NeW NoCTU1D.« FOR 1903. 5 



primaries with a darker disc and a diffuse discal blotch; secondaries with a small, 

 rather well-defined discal lunule. Expands i. 32-1. 44 inches ^=33-36 mm. 



Habitat : Kaslo, British Columbia, J. W. Cockle ; Idaho, C. V. 

 Piper. 



Three female specimens, one of them in excellent condition, the 

 others somewhat rubbed and broken. The Idaho specimen is darker 

 throughout, but does not differ otherwise from the Kaslo examples. 



In the absence of the male the reference to Almgrotis is somewhat 

 uncertain. I am assuming that the $ will be found to have serrated 

 and bristle-tufted antennae because the species resembles ermtica in 

 general appearance and type of maculation more than it does any 

 species o{ Rhynchagrotis. To the latter genus the species must be re- 

 ferred should the $ antennre prove to be simple. 

 Eueretagrotis inattenta, sp. nov. 



(iround color an even, smoky, purplish-brown. Head and lower half of collar 

 deep mahogany brown, velvety. Thorax else concolorous. Primaries very smooth 

 and even, the maculation poorly defined, no contrasts except the quadrate velvety 

 black patch between the ordinary spots and the small, triangular spot before the 

 orbicular. Basal line geminate, marked across the costal region only. A diffuse 

 blackish streak from base, below the median vein, almost to the t. a. line. T. a. line 

 geminate, obscurely marked, outcurved in the interspaces and a little outcurved as a 

 whole. T. p. line geminate, included space a littler lighter than the ground, inner 

 line feebly lunulated, outer line even, best marked by the slightly deeper s. t. space ; 

 as a whole nearly parallel with the outer margin. S. t. line pale, more or less broken, 

 a little irregular, on the whole very nearly parallel with the t. p. line. Claviform 

 small, concolorous, incompletely outlined. Orbicular large, concolorous or a little 

 paler, slightly ovate, open above and elsewhere defined only by the black shading. 

 Reniform large, kidney-shaped, concolorous or a little paler, usually outlined by some- 

 what darker scales, sometimes also by a few of yellowish tinge. A series of very 

 small, blackish terminal lunules. Secondaries smoky gray, almost even, with a faint 

 yellowish tinge basally and on fringes, and a darker terminal line. Beneath, primaries 

 smoky, more or less powdery, with an incomplete outer line and a vague discal spot. 

 Secondaries paler, more grayish, powdery on the costal region, with an outer smoky 

 line and a smoky discal lunule. Expands 1.32-1.52 inches -= 33-3S mm. 



Habitat : Calgary, Alberta, Head of Pine Creek, July 10-14, F. 

 H. Wolley Dod; Pullman, Washington, June 9, Exper. Station No. 

 320, C. V. Piper. 



Four males in good condition are now at hand, f Heretofore I 

 have considered this as a form of the eastern perattenta and have so 

 named specimens for Mr. Dod. Perattenta occurs at Cartwright, 

 Manitoba, and as it is there somewhat less mottled than the normal 

 Atlantic coast type I considered the Calgary specimens as larger, more 



