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without marks, yellowish white. Head and thorax dusky buff; 

 abdomen paler. Northern Illinois. Smaller than Typhce. 



The following is probably the male of Laeta : 



i . Forewings rich, reddish brown, the veins nearly black ; 

 they might be called purplish black or brown. The interspaces 

 have a paler, somewhat yellowish tint. No lines and no discal 

 spots. Hind wings reddish brown, a little paler than primaries 

 and paler at base. Body duller and lighter brown. Eyes naked; 

 front mucronate. Beneath without marks, paler ; disk of prima- 

 ries a little blackish. 



That there are no discal marks makes me doubtful. No. i, 

 Kittery Pt., Me. Coll. R. Thaxter. 



The following is probably a modification of Subflava : 

 ? . Paler, dusty yellowish or ochrey, terminal space contin- 

 uously fuscous and contrasting. Smaller than the type. Hind 

 wings pale, with a very faint indication of an extra-mesial line. 

 T. p. line a single row of black dots. Stigmata indicated by paler 

 shades on the disk; all three indicated. No. 2, Kittery Pt. 

 Mr. Thaxter's collection. The following may be an unnamed 

 species ; the specimen is a little rubbed : 



S. Fore wings reddish brown, the veins indistinctly paler. 

 The t. p. line indicated. The discal stigmata indicated by brighter 

 colored shades. Hind wings pale yellowish, contrasting. Head 

 and thorax sable brown. Abdomen lighter. Beneath pale, with 

 a vague blackish extra-mesial band. The veins tend to be out- 

 lined in black on fore wings alone. No. 3, Kittery Pt. Collection 

 of Mr. Thaxter. 



N ONAGRI A ObLONGA. n. S. 



5 . Pale reddish or yellowish gray, something the color of 

 Mythimna Psendargyria, Guen. Primaries somewhat oblong, in- 

 ternal angle rounded away; apices softened, costa a little arched. 

 Eyes naked. Clypeus mucronate. Palpi prominent, concolor- 

 ous. Markings obsolete. The fine, dark, linear denticulate t. p. 

 line barely discernible. Stigmata very vaguely indicated by 

 paler shades. Hind wings with a faint mesial black shade band ; 

 centrally stained with blackish ; fringe and external edge like 

 abdomen and very little paler than the rest of the insect. Be- 

 neath pale, with the disk of fore wings blackish ; a common black- 

 ish extra-mesial shaded line. Minute black discal points. Smaller 

 than TyphcB. No. 5, Kittery Pt. Coll. R. Thaxter. 



FURTHER NOTES AND DESCRIPTIONS OF NORTH 



AMERICAN ^GERIAD^E. 



By Henry Edwards. 



Trochilium Gallivorum. Westwood. 

 My friend, Mr. W. F. Kirby, of the British Museum, writes 

 me with reference to this species : " Westwood's Troch. gallivo- 



