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longer, tapering regularly and evenly from base to tip: the clasper is 

 much longer, more slender, gracefully curved, and terminating in a hook 

 curved into a semi-circle. These characters are constant and reliable, 

 and indicate a good species, however closely related. The western form 

 Sierra differs from haruspica less than that species does from augur, anil 

 is yet a fairly good species. 



Agroiis sincera II. S. This species I have not been able to compare 

 with European material, but doubt its identity. 



Agrotis Wockei Mceschl. This species has been hitherto unidenti- 

 fied by American Lepidopterists, and is said, fide Staudinger, to occur 

 also in Central Asia. Comparisons of types prove that scropulana Mori. 

 is a later name for Wockei, and not for cornea, as Mr. Grote puts it. 

 Okakensis Pack, is suspected by Mr. Mceschler as identical with either 

 Carried or Wockei, but without reason: it has bipectinate antennae, while 

 those of WdtkeisLYe simple. I may be permitted to doubt the identity of 

 the Central Asia specimen with our American form. 



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Agroiis /'estiva var. conflua. Mceschler speaks of a § recently receiv- 

 ed, and in his lot is a specimen marked var. conflua; but which is cer- 

 tainly not that species. I have conflua and /estiva, and compared with 

 them, this species differs in having a protuberant, roughened clypeus, 

 very heavily armed lore tibia, and entirely different genitalia. I have 

 named the species solitaria, and feel certain that Mr. Mceschler has al- 

 lowed a superficial resemblance to mislead him. 



Agrotis simplonia Hb. G. Mr. Mceschler mentions two specimens, 

 and especially a $ which is distinguished by a rusty-spot before the reni- 

 form: this identical specimen is now before me, and is certainly nothing 

 more nor less than a large ^ of Mr. Mceschler's own species, dissona 

 which is also in the same lot. Compared with alpine simplonia which I 

 have at hand the differences are so radical and obvious, that it is really 

 a mystery how Mr. Mceschler could overlook them. Simplonia need not 

 yet be added to our faunal lists. 



Agrotis Islandica. This Mr. Mceschler claims is found in Labrador: 

 but not like the type form. Two specimens, one from Iceland, and one 

 marked var. Labradorensis are in Mr. Moeschler's lot. This variety is 

 certainly the opipara of Mr. Morrison, and in my opinion fully distinct 

 from the type Islandica. I have seen numerous specimens of opipara 

 which showed very little variation, and decline to believe that it is a vari- 

 ation of Islandica, which is closely allied to sexali/is or obeliscoides. I 

 would much rather believe it a form of ochrogaster Gn., which varies 

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