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APPENDIX. 

 For the convenience of American entomologists, the following descriptions 

 of New Mexico moths taken by Prof. Snow, are reproduced from the An- 

 nals and Magazine of Natural History (London) for January, 1883: 



Agrotis himarginalis n. s. 

 Allied to variata and observabilis. Head and thorax rich orange-brown; a 

 broad pale leather-brown or fawn-colored costal stripe to terminal posterior 

 line; terminal space frosted with white. Rest of the wing deep brown» 

 shaded with black. Transverse posterior line even; stigmata obscured by 

 the blackish shading; subterminal space black on costa. Hind wings pale 

 fuscous ; abdomen brownish terminally. Beneath with dots and a common 

 even exterior shade band. No. 92-4, Expanse 36 millim. 



Agrotis circumdata n. s. 

 Belongs to the gravis group, the handsomest species yet found of this 

 group. Terminal space light leather-brown, and joining an equally broad 

 similar band along internal margin, which is edged above and below by two 

 deep velvety black curved longitudinal stripes at base of wing. These bands 

 vividly contrast with the black subterminal space and brownish-black sur- 

 face of the wing. The dentate transverse anterior line and the even trans- 

 verse posterior line partly visible. Stigmata contrasting; orbicular small, 

 pale, with dark central dot ; reniforra small, pale, upright, not constricted, with 

 brown line. Head and collar rich ochre-brown; thorax blackish. Hind 

 wings fuscous, with reddish fringes. Beneath powdered with reddish brown, 

 common band and discal dots distinct on secondaries. No. 925. Expanse 

 35 millim. 



Agrotis planalis n. s. 



Male. Allied to the Normaniana-esurialis species.. Fore wings and 

 thorax concolorous, dark chestnut brown; subterminal line narrow, com- 

 menced in black, with a subcostal tooth pointing inwardly, thence straightly, 

 indistinctly scalloped to inner margin. Lines double, marked on costa; 

 transverse posterior line faint, not much bent; stigmata small, concolorous, 

 set in a black discal shade. Thorax a little darker than primaries above. 

 Beneath distinctly marked. Fore wings blackish to subterminal line, be- 

 yond which the terminal space is pale; outer mesial line marked on costa; 

 hind wings pale, with distinct extramesial line and discal dot. Abdomen 

 brownish. Hind wings above without well-defined lines, paler at base, 

 shaded broadly with fuscous outwardly. Antennae slightly pectinate. No. 

 1043. 



Agrotis grandipennis u. s. 



One of the largest species, the female expands 52 millim. Rich purplish 

 red-brown, veins marked incompletely with black, terminal black marks 

 distinct. Transverse anterior line dentate, a large submedian tooth, lines 



