4 Journal New York Entomological Society. [Voi. xi. 



band. There is a series of vinous red terminal lunules at the base of the fringes 

 which are of the same color. No claviform is obvious in any specimen before me. 

 Orbicular V-shaped, open to the costa, concolorous with the gray shading of the wing 

 and defined only by the slight contrast between this and the vinous red shading below 

 it. . Reniform moderate in size, kidney-shaped, gray, defined in part only by the red- 

 dish shade which borders it more or fess. Secondaries smoky, with a yellowish tinge 

 toward base, fringes whitish, with a smoky interline. Beneath reddish-gray, pow- 

 dery ; primaries with disc smoky and with a more or less complete outer line ; sec- 

 ondaries with a wavy extramedian line and a small discal spot. Expands I.20-I.36 

 inches = 30-34 mm. 



Habitat : San Francisco County, California ; Pullman, Washing- 

 ton, June 10, Experiment Station No. 295. 



Three females in good condition. The California example has 

 been in my collection for a long time and was looked upon as a suf- 

 fused form until the specimens received from Prof. C. V, Piper made 

 it certain that there is a good species. It has the wing form oi placida 

 and a casual resemblance to that variable species ; but the open orbic- 

 ular separates the new form at once and, among its associates in this 

 character, I know of none with which it can be readily confused. 



As between the specimens, that from California is the largest and 

 has the least contrasts ; not a black scale is on the primaries and the 

 gray has a reddish tinge throughout. 



Abagrotis ornatus, sp. nov. 



Ground color creamy gray, varying to darker more smoky gray, the markings 

 clearly written, ordinary spots contrasting, discolored. Head and thorax concolorous ; 

 palpi deep chestnut brown on the sides. Primaries with all the markings present. 

 Basal line geminate, blackish, powdery, its parts widely separated. T. a. line gemi- 

 nate, the inner portion vague and broken, the outer distinct, black, not sharply de- 

 fined ; as a whole outwardly oblique, a little outcurvcd in the interspaces, a longer 

 inward tooth on the submedian vein. T. p. line geminate on the costa, the outer line 

 narrow, powdery, even over the subcostal, thence reduced to dark venular points, 

 luner line blackish, powdery, narrow, crenulate : as a whole little outcurved over the 

 cell and then a very little incurved to the inner margin. S. t. line pale, slightly sinu- 

 ate, preceded and emphasized by a narrow, blackish shade, the terminal space a little 

 paler. A broken black terminal line, which may be reduced to a series of venular 

 dots. Fringes with a slightly paler line at base and narrowly cut with the same 

 shade. Claviform wanting. Orbicular oval, oblique, narrowly black ringed, defin- 

 ing a pale annulus, within which the spot is solidly and evenly filled with rusty 

 brown. Reniform upright, rather narrow, only a little kidney-shaped, incompletely 

 outlined by black scales which border a pale annulus : within this the center is brown- 

 filled and a black powdering around the margins emphasize the distinctness of the 

 spot. Secondaries smoky, paler basally, fringes pale with a reddish tinge ; a blackish 

 discal lunule apparent. Beneath reddish, powdery, with an incomplete exterior line ; 



