€46 NOCTTTID^. 



incurved below vein 4 ; a pale minutclj' dentate subtcrrainal line 

 angled outwards at vein 7 and excurved at middle, with some pale 

 points and a black patch before it at costa ; a terminal series of 

 black points. Hind wing yellowish suffused wholly with red-brown ; 

 the cilia pale ; the underside pale irrorated with brown, a dark 

 discoidal lunule and sinuous postmedial line. 



Hab. Canada {Norman), 1 c? , 1 $ ; U.S.A., Northern, Eastern, 

 Middle, and Central States, New York, Trenton Falls {Douhlcday), 



2 S type, Evan's Centre (Grote), 5 c? , 1 § . Exj). 44 millim. 

 Larva. Dyar, Proc. Ent. Soc. Wash. iv. p. 317 (1899). 



Head 2-5 millim., rather dark brown, obscuring the brown 

 reticulations and curved band from vertex, with a narrower line 

 running upward from the eye. Body pale brown, somewhat 

 pinkish or cream-colour ; dorsal line narrow, pale, brown-marked 

 and shortly broken in the incisures ; subdorsal shades and lines 

 scarcely perceptible ; substigraatal line straight above, narrowly 

 pale, edged with a dark line that runs through the centres of the 

 spiracles (except on joint 12), broad, ill-detined belovr, and shading 

 into the pale sub ventral area. 



Probably a general feeder. — H. G. D. 



1111. Eueretagrotis peratteuta. (Plate LXXVII, fig. 21.) 



Agrotis perattcntus, Grote, Can. Ent. vi. p. 131 (1874); id. 111. Essay, 51, 

 pi. 1. f. 7 ; Smith, Cat. Noct. K. Am. p. 60. 



Head and thorax reddish brown mixed with grey and slightly 

 with black ; palpi blackish at sides ; tegulse black at extremities ; 

 tarsi black ringed with white ; abdomen grey, tinged with rufous 

 towards extremity and on ventral surface. Fore wing grey, largely 

 suffused with purple-brown ; a diffused black streak below base of 

 cell ; a double subbasal line from costa to submediau fold, angled 

 inwards in cell ; a double oblique, irregularly waved antemedial 

 line ; claviform small, outlined with black ; orbicular and reniform 

 greyish, defined by black and with the cell before and between them 

 black, the former rather small, nearly round ; a minutely dentate 

 postmedial line defined by grey on outer side, bent outwards below 

 costa, slightly incurved in discal fold, and incurved below vein 4 ; 

 the pale subterminal line with the area before it purple-brown and 

 some pale points aud blackish patch at costa, angled outwards at 

 vein 7 aud excurved at middle ; a terminal series of black points. 

 Hind wing greyish irrorated with fuscous brown especially towards 

 termen ; a terminal series of dark striae ; underside more pro- 

 minently irrorated, with dark discoidal lunule and sinuous postmedial 

 line. 



Hah. Canada, Renfrew Co., 2d, 3 $ ; U.S.A., Northern and 

 Eastern States to Mississippi and Texas, New York {Bouhleday), 



3 S, Evan's Centre {Grote), 1 cJ , 1 ? type? ^^^s Kills, 1 J- 

 Exp. 40-42 millim. 



