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taken by Dr. Bailey in St. Lawrence Co., X. Y.; Mr. Geo. Dimmock 



took tlie male of this species at Camp C. E. C, White Mts. N. H. 



Agrotis infimatis. n. s. ? . All the tibiae spinose, blackish gray, 

 shaded with wliitish, the veins darker, ornamentation snbobsolete. 

 Size moderate. A black basal streak, surmounted with Avhitish shad- 

 ing. Xo trace of anterior line. Orbicular narrow, whitish, black- 

 ringed, oblique, attaining the reniform inferiorly and outwardly. 

 Eeniform inconspicuous, dusky, small, upright, with a slight con- 

 striction and a backward extension on median vein. Posterior line 

 marked by a series of white dots on the veins, else obsolete. Frin- 

 ges concolorous, dotted with gray. Hind wings whitish, powdered 

 Avith dark scales ; fringes white. Beneath the common outer line 

 is marked on costa of both wings, discal dots minute. Head and 

 thorax gray shaded with blackish, a black collar. Expanse 33 mil. 

 Havilah, California, Mr. Hy. Edwards, No. 7179. 



This species is allied to verniUs and differs by the more dis- 

 tinctly dotted white posterior line, the size and shape of the stig- 

 mata and whitish secondaries. 



Agrotis sculpta. 



This species, made the type of the genus Anytus, Bull. B. S. 

 ]Sr. S. 1, 145, must, I am now satisfied, be referred to Agrotis. The 

 eyes are naked ; middle and hind tibiae spinose. The thorax is 

 not more tufted than in some other species of Agrotis and, though 

 somewhat flattered, is not the same as in Lithophane [Xylina]. 

 Tlie difference in the tuftings of the head is pointed out in the 

 original description. The insect has a strong resemblance to Lith. 

 capax, in color, markings, especially in the approach of the median 

 lines and the dark line connecting them on submedian fold. The 

 male hind wings are whitish with soiled veins, the female shaded 

 witli fuscous with double lines more or less evident. The abdomen 

 is somewhat flattered with a dorsal ridge. 



Hadena Hulstii. i^"- s. 



? . Allied to auranticolor. The fore wings are pale clayey 

 brown, with the median space clouded with black down to the sub- 

 median fold. Eeniform pale, large, contrasting, shaded behind by 

 the ferruginous median shade. Orbicular decumbent, inconspicuous ; 

 claviform a ferruginous dash. ]\redian lines unusually approximate 

 on internal margin, ferruginous, single, marked by black dots on the 

 veins, scalloped. Terminal line black, broken into lunulate marks ; 



