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G. pxxpiirifascia is to be distingnislied by the shape and course of the 

 transverse posterior line which is not outwardly exserted opposite the 

 cell, where it is bent in cataphracta and the other species originally 

 referred to Gortyna. 



Ampliipyra pyramidoidesj Ouenee. 



Habitat, California (coll. Mr. James Behrens, No. 9). 



The specimen does not differ from Eastern material in onr collec- 

 tions.'' 

 Ac/rot is dejyressus, Grote, Can. Nat., belongs to Amphipyra. 



Noctua clandestina, Harris. 



Halitat, Sierra Nevada, Cal. (coll. Mr. Hy. Edwards, No. 3503). 



The specimen does not differ from onr Eastern material which I 

 determine as Harris' species. But, on the other hand. Fitch's fig. 6, 

 Plate 5, 1st and 2d Eeports, can hardly represent this species, though 

 I fancy the figure is very bad. 



Xylomig'es curialisj Grote. 



i, . — Eyes liairy; antennae thickly bristled beneath, with the joints distinct 

 at the sutures, centrally widened. Caputal vestiture rough, extended for- 

 wards between the antennae ; palpi lengthily haired ; tongue stout, long, tes- 

 taceous. Thorax quadrate, with a small posterior tuft ; collar raised in front. 

 Abdomen with a dorsal tuft at base. Fore wings narrow, elongate with den- 

 tate fringes. Very dark gray, all the transverse lines broken and more or less 

 indistinct and incomplete. Eemarkable for the veins being all marked by 

 black scales, interrupted with pale dots. Claviform and orbicular quite small, 

 void. The angulate blackish diffuse median shade is tolerably distinct. Reui- 

 form moderate, indistinctly margined, with a reddish stain which seems to be 

 shared in a slight degree by the claviform and orbicular. Subterminal line 

 continued, narrow, pale, angulated below costa and interspaceally preceded 

 centrally by evident dark brown marks. Terminal line very narrow, hardly 

 distinct with a following pale line at the base of the fringes. Secondaries 

 white, with a terminal lunulate broken line ; fringes white. Beneath whitish, 



2 "It is here, as in almost every other genus and Family, the closet systematist divides up 

 and arranges with insufficient knowledge of the variation which species are subject to," i. e. 

 AmiMpyra conspersa, Eiley, "which affords," "on the very face of it," "good food for a 

 reflecting mind." (3d Missouri Report.) 



