$4 Notes on North American Lepidojptera. 



ous with the costal shade. Abdomen gray, conspicuously banded with 

 ochreous. 



The anterior wings with a broad costal carneous-gray shade extending 

 over the middle and upper part of the basal space, filling the ordinary 

 spots, narrowing and becoming extinct before the exterior line ; the re- 

 mainder of the wings blackish gray, becoming lighter in the neighbor- 

 hood of the irregular, jagged and diffuse subterminal line, which is close 

 to the external margin thus narrowing the terminal space ; the interior 

 line is lost above in the costal shade and below on the inner margin, it 

 only appears in the middle of the wings and there has attached to it the 

 small concolorous black edged claviform spot; the ordinary spots small, 

 the space between them blackish, the orbicular elongate, nearly lost in the 

 costal shade, the reniform followed by a distinct black streak which ex- 

 tends to the exterior line ; the latter is black, simple, denticulate and not 

 very distinct ; a seines of black dots before the fringe, the latter is yel- 

 lowish at the base, outwardly gray. Posterior wings whitish with a 

 slight yellow tinge, having an indistinct discal dot and an indefinite subter- 

 minal shade ; the costa and inner margin are gray ; the fringe ochreous. 

 Beneath the anterior wings are blackish, the posteriors white with a 

 gray costal border ; the fringes of both wings more or less yellow. 



Habitat. New York. 



(From the collection of Mr. Fred. Tepper). 



The distinctive characters of this Agrotis are found in the 

 carneous-gray costal shade, the small spots, the distinct black 

 dash following the reniform and the ochreous fringes. It 

 is allied to A. annexa, Treits, but differs by the non-serrate 

 antennas, the absence of the basal black dash, and the whitish 

 posterior wings with ochreous fringes ; it also approaches 

 more remotely .4. venerabilis, Walk, and A. volubilis, Harvey. 



Agrotis montana, nov. sp. 



Expanse 30 mm . Length of body, 12 mm . Eyes naked. All the tibiae 

 spinose. The villosity of the palpi, front, collar and thorax coarse and 

 thick ; the collar black, edged broadly with white ; the thorax and abdo- 

 men blackish, the latter having the anal tufts yellowish. The ground 

 color of the anterior wings dark gray, as in Anarta algida, Lef. ; the 

 whole insect closely simulates Anarta. The anterior wings elongate, 

 with the inner angle rounded ; the half-line thick, black and twice undu- 

 late ; the basal space is more or less suffused with bluish gray, and contains 

 a black orbicular basal dash; the interior line very distinct, black, thick 

 and perpendicular, preceded by a conspicuous bluish gray shade line ; to 



