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 immaculate. Palpi with black scales on basal and second Joint at 

 the sides. Lines indicated by black costal spots. Orbicular, a black 

 mark; reniform, reduced, black. Exterior line broken into black dots, 

 a large dot on internal margin and costa. Ilalf-line indicated; t. a. 

 line incomplete; sub terminal obsolete; a marginal row of black points; 

 fringes concolorous. Ilindwings pellucid white with white fringes 

 clouded with fuscous along external margin and with the veins soiled. 

 Beneath whitish ; cell of primaries fuscous ; a discal lunule and faint 

 exterior line; a black dot on hind wings. Expanse 36 mil. 



Agrotis deoipiens n. s. 

 5 ? . All the tibiae spinose. Kather slender bodied and long 

 winged. Belongs to Ammoconia, since the thorax shows a sharp me- 

 sial ridge. Leaden gray, concolorous, the median space clouded with 

 blackish. Orbicular large, rounded or slightly oblique, gray, or witli 

 darker center; reniform large, upright, slightly mesially constricted. 

 Lines indistinct, double ; half-line black, single. Subterminal space 

 gray, in one specimen this and the internal margin shoAvs a faint 

 brownish tinge. Subterminal line commencing with a blackish shade 

 and then running outwardly and near the margin, leaving the apices 

 gray. Beneath with a faint purplish tinge. Breast purplish black. 

 Wings Avith common line, double on primaries, marked on the veins 

 on hind wing, and faint discal dots. Male antennae simple, ciliate. 

 Expanse 38 mil. 



Agrotis minimalis n. s. 

 Allied to j^lacida, but reddish like cupida. Fore tibiae unarmed. 

 Orbicular small, round, paler with dark center; reniform small, dark. 

 Median shade diffuse, continuous, evident below reniform. Lines 

 single, blackish, followed by pale shades. Subterminal space dark red 

 and contrasting with pale terminal. A terminal row of dots, fringes 

 concolorous. Ilindwing fuscous with concolorous fringes. Head and 

 thorax reddish, concolorous. Abdomen fuscous, flattened, with reddish 

 anal hairs. Wings beneath fuscous, shaded with red, with common 

 line distinct on secondaries, on primaries marked on costa. Discal 

 dots better marked on hindwings. Palpi black on sides. Expanse 

 33 mil. 



Pyrrhia stilla n. s. 



Bright orange red, allied to angidata, rather than to exprmens. 

 Base of primaries bright smooth orange, without markings. Median 

 shade strongly contrasting, deep brown, forming a mesial band, acute- 

 ly angulate on cell, even, diffuse exteriorly. Stigmata obsolete. Ex- 

 terior line as in angulata, obsolete on costa. Subterminal subobso- 



