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near posterior line. The latter single, blackish, nearly perpendicular, 

 distinctly marked by black dots followed by pale points on the 

 veins. Subterminial line incons2:)icuous. A terminal broken black 

 line. Hind wings pale, powdered with fuscons, with a terminal 

 broken black line, else above and below withont the nsnal spots and 

 lines. Fore wings beneath nnlined, dark gray, concolorons, contras- 

 ting with the whitish secondaries which are also concolorons merely 

 showing a slight dark shading on the veins in the place of the nsnal 

 line and a minnte dot on the discal cross-vein. One male received 

 from Mr. C. E. Worthington, Northern Indiana in Jnne. Expands 

 30 mil. 



Differs from the species with pectinated antennae by the dotted 

 lines, the outer followed by pale points, the narrow discolorons reni- 

 form and the absence of the nsnal lines and spots on hindwings 

 and undersurface. 



Agrotis Baileyana, »-. s. 



Male antennae simple ; fore tibiae unarmed, middle and hind 

 tibiae spinose. Rather wide-winged and slender bodied, facies of 

 pressa. Black, white and gray, vividly mai'ked. Thorax grey mixed 

 with black, collar pale edged; second palpal joint black at the sides. 

 Lines double, black, with wide white interspaces. Ground color gray. 

 Half -line distinct. Anterior line upright, irregular, not quite per- 

 fectly written, running near the round and rather large white, black- 

 ringed orbicular, which has a blackish center. The median shade 

 clouds the costa above the orbicular and tlie cell between the spots 

 with black. Reniform of the usual shape, colored like the orbicular. 

 Claviform blunt, rather prominent, shaded with black. Posterior 

 line dentate , its outer component line incomplete , followed by 

 black and white points on the veins. Subterminal line preceded by 

 black prominent unequal dashes. A thick black finely interrupted 

 terminal line. Fringes whitish Avith an interrupted dusky line. 

 Hind wings shaded with fuscous, showing a discal spot and two 

 exterior bands, the inner dentate and scalloped, distinct on under 

 surface where there is a basal ray. Terminally, above, the wing be- 

 comes paler before the thick black terminal line. Beneath dusky, 

 feet dotted with pale. This species may be known by the vivid 

 ornamentation, the characters from antennae and armature of the 

 tibiae and by the double bands of the upper surface of the secon- 

 daries, which latter beneath show the extra mesial band dentate and 

 waved, the stigma distinct and the basal dash. A fresh female 



