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thu Ibllowiiig three species, bclongin;^ to diflerent gfii<ia, und vri .■•<> 

 close to eiicli other tlitit tlu'V ciui h.inlly l)e cliritin;5iiii5hetl except by 



llicir _i,n'iirric fharnclfrs. 



Eyes hiiii'y, lihiac iinarmctl, altchjiiu'ii conical: 



MamI'STUa Assrvii.is Murr. 

 Eyes naked, tibiae unanne(l, abdoimMi cfjiiical: 



JIaDLN'A I.MIMI.SA ((lllt'ii.). 



Eyes naked, tibiae spinose, abdomen Ihittened: 



Agrotis velleripennis fh'ote. 



Genus MOR III SOMA, GnAr. 

 Morrisonia peracuta (nov. sp.). 

 Expanse, 37 in. ni. Length of hodi/, 17 m. m. 



Eyes liairy. Front divided by a transverse furrow between the eyes, the 

 gides of which are cinereous, into two short, obtuse tufts. The frontal tuft 

 beneath and the vertical tuft above, brown. Collar and thorax gray brown, 

 ihe latter with a short bifid fore and hind tuft. Collar showing a conspic- 

 uous, bicolorous, black and white transverse line. Tegulae with a similar 

 'ermiual line. Anterior wings with brown and cinereous longitudinal shades. 

 A cinereous costal shade from the base to the apex, more or less discolored 

 by brown internervular streaks, the most prominent of which passes over the 

 place of the orbicular (which is wanting), and obscures the disc of the almost 

 obsolete reniform. The latter is indicated in the costal shade, only by faint, 

 transverse, cinereous shades, and a darker central spot. The lower portion of 

 the reniform projects slightly over and contrasts slightly with a dark choco- 

 late brown shade, which starts from the base and proceeds along and below 

 the median nervure to the exterior line ; it gradually shades into lighter 

 brown, and then into cinereous. Two dark brown basal dashes, one beneath 

 (^he median and the other beneath the submedian nervure and along the inner 

 margin. The exterior line forms a dash on the costa at its inception, and then 

 six long fine black ray-like teeth, the last of which returns back towards the 

 base, between the median and submedian nervules, meeting a like tooth from 

 the interior line (this tooth being the only portion of that line visible) ; be- 

 neath this the exterior line forms a long, sharp, outwardly projecting tooth on 

 the submedian. Subterminal space cinereous ; outwardly its indentations 

 jagged (corresponding to those of the exterior line), and in particular two long 

 Uadena-Yxke teeth, extending to the outer margin. Terminal space brown, 

 divided into two principal areas, one above and the other below the subter- 

 minal teeth. A broad, more or less discolored cinereous shade from the base 

 to the inner angle along the margin. A series of white terminal dashes be- 



