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Thorax in front crossed by a black line followed by a wbite band. 

 Costa shaded with white ; median vein narrowly striped with white. 

 Transverse posterior line followed by white shadings, spreading from 

 the veins, crossing the s. t. line below apices, at the median nervules 

 again and at internal margin; these white shades are alternated with 

 black cuneate marks. Orbicular narrow, oblique, white, with narrow 

 dark center, filled in with white next the annulus ; claviform con- 

 colorous, long, black-edged. A black, even, terminal line. Hindwings 

 fuscous with whitish, interlined fringes. Beneath with double extra- 

 mesial diffuse shade lines and faint discal marks. Thorax dark olive; 

 abdomen fuscous. Expanse 32 mil. 



Agrotis paeextalis n. s. 



S . All the tibiae spinose; antennae simple, ciliate beneath. Allied 

 to decipiens, but quite different in color. Lines deep black. Gen- 

 eral color gray suffused with reddish brown. Median space darker. Basal 

 half-line deep black. Median lines, dentate and excavate, deep black, 

 approximate. Costal region diffusely gray shaded. Claviform moderate, 

 deep black. Orbicular conclorous, large, rounded. Eeniform subequal, 

 upright, subquadrate; disk blackish. Exterior line, moderately pro- 

 duced and excavate, marked by vein points. Sub terminal line faint, 

 vague, broken. A fine slightly uneven terminal black line. Fringes 

 concolorous. Hindwings pale fuscous, with reddish fringes concolor- 

 ous with those on primaries. Thorax concolorous, with mesial ridge, 

 without markings except a faint line on collar. Beneath pale, tinged 

 with reddish, with traces of a common line. Expanse 38 mil. 

 Agkotis CAEisris n. s. 



$ . Allied to luhricans, but without any line on the collar ; the 

 t. p. line more inwardly oblique. Dark gray, shaded and splashed 

 with red. Markings all indistinct and the lines broken. Orbicular 

 round, moderate, gray, with darker center; reniform of the usual shape, 

 upright, excavate outwardly, gray, with dark center. Lines marked 

 by black and pale costal dots. Fringes fuscous with a pale line at 

 base. Thorax and head concolorous with forewings, shaded with red- 

 dish ; palpi black at the sides. Hindwings white, with Avhite fringes 

 and diffusely shaded with fuscous along exterior border. Beneath, 

 hindwings white, forewings pale fuscous. Expanse 42 mil. 

 Agrotis catexula n. s. 



$, . All the tibiae spinose; male antennae brushlike. Allied to 

 muraenula; differs in color and t. p. line not followed by white dots. 

 Gray white, indistinctly olivaceous or ochraceous, concolorous ; "thorax 



