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below apex of wing ; fringes white ; secondaries white, tinged with smoky, 

 especially in 9. Beneath silvery-white. Expanse 24 mm. 



Habitat: Palm Spgs., Riverside Co., Calif. (Mch., Apr.). 8 $.3 9. 

 Types, Coll. Barnes. 



Grotella spaldingi B. & McD. (PI. XVII, Fig. 16). 



We have before us long series of this species from Pahn Springs, 

 Riverside Co., CaHf., and Olancha, Inyo Co., Calif. ; there is a ten- 

 dency in the Californian form to show a distinct checkering in the 

 fringes which in our typical Utah series is lacking; this feature is 

 however not constant as a number of our Olancha specimens are en- 

 tirely without it and cannot be separated from the Utah form. We 

 figure a specimen with the checkered nature of tlie fringes well defined. 



EUXOA CINNABARINA sp. nOV. (PI. XV, Fig. 1). 



Head and thorax rich cinnamon-brown, collar crossed by a pale band 

 above base ; primaries cinnamon-brown with the median space deeper in color 

 than remainder of wing; subcostal and median veins outlined in white to end 

 of cell, the angle between them at base of wing more or less filled with whitish, 

 vein 1 faintly white marked; basal half line indicated by a whitish streak on 

 costa ; t. a. line blackish, regularly dentate, slightly outwardly obHque, bordered 

 inwardly at costa with whitish, which is continued across wing as a paler brown 

 shade than ground color ; orbicular obliquely oval, outlined in yellowish and 

 black and filled with brown; reniform lunate, similar to orbicular in color with 

 slight whitish filling in lower portion; claviform a small dark loop; t. p. line 

 dark, dentate, bent out below costa, incurved below cell, bordered at costa 

 by a white line outwardly continued faintly across wing by a yellowish shade ; 

 s. t. line distinct, irregular, pale yellowish; slightly shaded inwardly by smoky; 

 a black broken terminal line ; fringes ruddy at base, paler outwardly. Second- 

 aries light smoky with pale fringes and a rather well-marked discal lunule. 

 Beneath whitish ochreous, tinged with pinkish along costa of both wings, 

 broadest on secondaries ; a discal spot on all wings, that of primaries more 

 or less surrounded by smoky shading; abdomen ochreous above, pinkish be- 

 neath. Expanse $ 33 mm. ; 9 41 mm. 



Habitat: $ Monachee Meadows, Tulare Co., Calif. (Aug.); 9 Nellie, 

 S. Diego Co., Calif. (July). 3 5, 1 9. 



This handsome species belongs close to divcrgens but is readily 

 recognized by the bright cinnamon color of the primaries; it lacks the 

 black basal dash of divergens Wlk. 



Agrotis fortiter sp. nov. (PI. XV, Fig. 4). 



Palpi, head, thorax, and primaries deep unicolorous purple-brown, the 

 latter slightly shaded with grayish ; maculation very obscure, t. a. line indicated 



