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lines represented by blackish points on the veins ; orbicular a small 

 blackish spot ; reniform narrow, erect, dusky ; subterminal line 

 only defined by a slight difference in colour between the post- 

 medial and terminal areas. Hind wing pale, the terminal area 

 tinged with fuscous. 



Hah. U.S.A., Florida, ^.i^). 31 millim. This species is unknown 

 to me. 



G54. Agrotis auruleiita. (Plate LXIX. fig. 26.) 



Agrotis aurulenta, Smitli, Bull. U.S. Nat. Mus. 38, p. 215 (1890); id. Cah 

 Noct. N. Am. p. 66. 



Head and thorax pale ochreous ; abdomen white, dorsally tinged 

 with ochreous towards extremity. Fore wing pale ochreous ; an 

 indistinct curved postmedial series of dark points on the veins. 

 Hind wing ochreous white ; the veins and terminal area browner ; 

 cilia pure white. 



Ab. 1. Fore wing suffused with rufous defining the pale lines, 

 the antemedial line angled, the subterminal line irregular ; the 

 orbicular and reniform with pale annuli and fuscous-tinged centres, 

 the former round. 



Hah. U.S.A., Nebraska, 1 $ , Colorado, Arizona. Exjp. 40 

 luillim. 



Sect. IV. {Ochropleura). Antennae of male serrate and fasciculate. 



A. Tegulre white at base, choeolate-browu at tips. 



«. Fore wing with the median nervure streaked with white ... dariveiia 



b. Fore wing with the median nervure not streaked witli 



white musiva. 



B. Tegulffi concolorous. 



a. Fore wing with purplish-brown oblong patch on middle of 



costal area, including the stigmata exoleta. 



h. Fore wing with the cell dark before and between the 

 stigmata. 



a^. Fore wing with the postmedial line not dentate glarcosa. 



b^. Fore wing with the postmed ial line dentate docilis. 



c. Fore wing with the cell not dark before and between the 

 stigmata castanea. 



* 



655. Agrotis clarivena. (Plate LXIX. fig. 27.) 



Agrotis clarivena, Piing. Iris, xiii. p. IK), pi. 4. f. 8 (18'09) ; Stand. Cat. 

 Lep. pal. p. 2.54, add. 



Head whitish and purple-brown ; teguloe whitish at base, with 

 deep red-brown patch at tips ; thorax pale rufous or mixed with 

 grey ; hind tibiae and tarsi white above : abdomen grey, the ventral 

 surface puri)lish brown irrorated with grey. Fore wing red-brown 

 suffused with purplish grey ; the costal area creamy-white to the 

 postmedial line, the median nervure streaked with white ; a trian- 

 gular black patch below base of cell ; antemedial line obsolete from 

 costa to median nervure, then indistinct, double, excurved below 

 cell and more strongly above inner margin, claviform very 

 indistinctly defined l)y black above ; orbicular white, V-shaped, 



