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brownish and defined by black, the former oblique, the latter large ; 

 the cell before and between, the stigmata and between the reniform 

 and postmedial line tinged with black : the postmedial line strongly 

 dentate,bent outwards below costa, excurved to vein 3, then incurved, 

 the area beyond it pale. rufous ; some pale points on costa towards 

 apex and a grey patch at apex ; the subterminal line white, 

 prominent, bidentateat middle, and with dentate black marks before 

 its medial point ; a terminal series of small black lunules. Hind 

 wing whitish tinged with brown ; the veins, discoidal lunule, and 

 terminal area brown ; cilia Avhite, with a brown line near base ; the 

 underside with the costal area strongly irrorated with brown ; the 

 discoidal lunule prominent ; a terminal series of small black lunules. 



2 . Fore Aviug with the pale areas much whiter. 



Ifah. Canada, Vancouver I., 2 cJ , 1 5 type ; U.S.A., Colorado 

 (S)iow),l 2 , Glenwood Springs, California. E,vp., c? 44, $ 46 

 millim. 



Larva. Dyar, Proc. Ent. Soc. Wash. iv. p. 318 (1899). 



Head 3 millim., reddish brown, shining, faintly marked by pale 

 reticulations. Cervical shield shining brown, somewhat translucent. 

 Dorsal space broadly pale, nearly obscuring the pale dorsal line, this 

 pale area widening only slightly at the incisures, and reaching 

 almost to the faintly traceable narrow, pale, subdorsal line. 

 Stigmatal line faintly shadowed, whitish, concolorous with the pale 

 subventral area; setae minute. Probably a general feeder. — H. G. D. 



523. Eiixoa tritici. 



Xoctua tritici, Liun. Faun. Suec. p. 320 (1761) ; Boisd. Icones, pi. 77. 



ff. 2,3; Stepli.IU. Brit. Ent.. Haust. ii. p. 121 ; Herr.-Schatf. Eui-. Schmett., 



Noct. ff. 527-8 & 529-30 ; Staud. Cat. Lep. pal. p. 150. 

 Noctua aquilina, Schiff. Wien. Verz. p. 80 (1776) ; Hiibu. Samiul. Eur. 



Schmett., Noct. ff. 535-6; Hei-r.-Schiiff. Eui-. Schmett., Noct. ff. 533, 



540. 

 Xociua nigrofusca, Esp. Schmett. iv. pi. 127. f. 6 (1786). 

 Xoctua pratincola, Bork. Eur. Sclmiett., Noct. iv. p. 553 (1792) ; Hiibn. 



Samml. Eur. Schmett., Noct. f. 567. 

 Noctua domestica, Fabr. Eat. Syst. iii. 2, p. 23 (1793). 

 Xoctua eruta, Hiibu. Samml. Eur. Schmett., Noct. f. 623 (1827). 

 Noctua fictilis, Hiibn. Saiural. Eur. Schmett., Noct. f. 479 (1827). 

 Agrotis segnilis, Boisd. Ind. Meth. p. 110 (18:^9). 

 Agrotis seliginis, Dup. Lep. Fr. Suppl. iii. p. 211, pi. 19. f. 6 (1836). 

 Agrotis mhulctorum, Boisd. Gen. et Ind. Meth. p. 1U9 (1840) ; Herr.-Schilff 



Eur. Schmett., Noct. f. 19 ; Staud. Cat. Lep. pal. p. 150. 

 Agrotis squalida, Ev. Bull. Mosc. iii. p. 548 (1842); Herr.-Schaff. Eur. 



Schmett., Noct. f. 494 {ncc Boisd.). 

 Agrotis detorta, Ev. Bull. Mosc. ii. p. 328 (1851). 

 Agrotis siliginis, Guen. Noct. i. p. 2!S7 (1852). 

 Agrotis fceda. Led. Verb. z.-b. Ges. Wien, 1855, p. 107, pi. i. f. 6; Ersch. 



Fedtsch. Keis. pi. 3. f. 38. 

 Agrotis nigrina, Staud. Stett. ent. Zeit. 1867, p. 106. 

 Agrotis varia, Alph. Rom. Mem. v. p. 138, pi. 7. f. 1 (1839). 

 Agrotis obscurior, Staud. Horn. Mem. vi. p. 420 (1892). 

 Agrotis distincta, Staud. Iris, v. p. 358 (1892). 



Head and thorax ochreous to dark brown, largely suffused with 

 black and irrorated witli white ; palpi black at sides except at 



