630 NOCTUID^. 



patch on its inuer side at costa. Hiud wing pale yellowish, 

 irrorated Avith bro-wn except towards base and inner margin, and 

 the veins tinged \^ith brown ; the underside with the costal area 

 strongly irrorated with brown, a postmedial series of short streaks on 

 the veins, distinct on costal area, and traces of a subtcrmiual line. 



Hah. Canada ; U.S.A., Northern, Eastern, and Middle States, 

 Massachusetts, Vermont, jS". York, Evans Centre, 3 c? , Albany, 

 Iowa, Nebraska, Kansas {Snoiv), 2 $ , Colorado. E.v^). 38-44 

 millim. 



*1083. Triphsena hero. 



Agrofis hero, Morr. Proc. Bost, Soc. N. H. xviii. p. 238 (187(i) ; Smith, 

 Cat. Noct. N. Am. p. 67. 



Fuscous brown suifused with grey ; tegula) black at base, paler 

 at extremities. Fore wing with the ante- and postmedial lines 

 dark, the former defined on inner side, the latter on outer by pale 

 colour ; orbicular and reniform with grey annuli, the former some- 

 what V-shaped, open above, and with a black spot in cell before it; 

 a distinct medial shade. Hind wing uniform dark brownish grey ; 

 a small discoidal spot ; the underside brownish grey, with discoidal 

 spot and postmedial line. 



Huh. U.S.A., Massachusetts. Eaj). 32 millim. This species is 

 unknown to me. 



1084. TriphaBiia crenulata. (Plate LXXVI. fig. 31.) 



Agrotia crcnnlata, Smith, Proc. U.S. Nat. Mus. x. p. 451 (1887) ; Smith, 

 Cat. Noct. N. Am. p. 56. 



S . Head dark brown mixed with black ; palpi black, whitish at 

 tips ; thorax deep red-brown ; tegula? with white medial line 

 and black tips ; prothoracic crest tipped with grey, metathoracic 

 crest rufous ; legs blackish irrorated with grey ; abdomen fuscous, 

 the ventral surface irrorated with grey. Fore wing dark reddish 

 brown, the basal area strongly and the postmedial area slightly 

 suffused with grey ; a waved black subbasal line from costa to 

 submedian fold, with striga beyond it at costa, and deep black 

 streak below the cell to the double oblique waved antemedial line ; 

 claviform small, defined by grey and black ; orbicular and reniform 

 brown, irrorated with white and with pale annuli, the former 

 rounded, open above, the cell before and between the stigmata 

 deep black ; the postmedial line dentate and produced to points on 

 the veins, defined by grey on outer side, bent outwards below 

 costa, eseurved to vein 4, then incurved ; the subterminal line 

 brown, slightly irrorated with white, excurved at vein 7 and 

 middle ; a terminal series of dark points. Hind wing fuscous 

 brown ; the cilia whitish, brown at base ; the underside fuscous 

 grey, the costal area grey irrorated with brown, a dark discoidal 

 spot and indistinct curved postmedial line. 



Hah. U.S.A., Washington, Pullman, ] cT , Oregon, Portland, 

 Utah, Nevada, 1 J , California. Exjp. 38 millim. 



