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length (Plate VI, fig. 5). The color is crimson, marked with purplish 

 brown or blackish on the latticed ridges in the place of the usual spots, 

 a more or less distinct square pale spot covering the depressed space (1) 

 of joints 7-8. Length, 6.3-10 mm. 



Cocoon as usual. 



Food-plants. — Chestnut, oak, hickory, wild cherry. 



EXPLANATION OF PLATE VI. 

 Fig. 1. Stage I, side view enlarged, diagrammatic. 

 " 2. One of the single seise more enlarged. 

 " 3. Larva in stage III enlarged. 

 " 4. Granules from young larva. 

 " 5. Mature larva, enlarged, full pattern. 

 " 6. The same, widest spot. 

 " 7. Front and side views. 

 " 8. Mature larva, most reduced pattern. 

 " 9. The same, a small red spot. 

 " 10. Moth of Heterogeneajlextiosa. 

 " 11. The same, variety ccesonia. 



NOTES ON SPECIES OF NOCTUA WITH DESCRIP- 

 TIONS OF NEW FORMS. 



PLATE VII. 



By John. B. Smith, Sc.D. 



In 1890 I published a revision of the species theretofore lumped under 

 the generic term Agrotis, as Bulletin No. 44 of the U. S. National Mu- 

 seum, and divided up the species among fifteen genera, new and old. 

 The general conclusions reached in that paper have approved themselves 

 to me since that period ; but the increased material has necessitated 

 some changes in the standing of certain species. 



The genus Noctua as restricted by me contained species with all the 

 tibiae spinose, the anterior not heavily armed ; front smooth and feebly 

 convex ; antennas in the male ciliate only; vestiture hairy, scaly or mixed ; 

 primaries with apices rectangular or rounded, and as a whole rather 

 subparallel, if varying in width. 



Nothing essential need be added to this description, and all the new 

 forms since seen fit very nicely into the definition. Most of the addi- 



