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some doubt. The differences will be found in comparing fig. 8, in plate 

 VII, with those cited for rosaria. The chief point is in the much nar- 

 rower harpes and this amount of variation I have not seen equalled else- 

 where in the same species. Three males, one from Corfield and two 

 from Oregon are practically identical, while three specimens of rosaria 

 from the three localities represented are also practically the same. 



This study of the forms allied to rubifera will serve to indicate that 

 our knowledge of the species is by no means even yet complete and that 

 much remains to be done. The material in collections even of the 

 Eastern forms is altogether insufficient in amount and character to fairly 

 illustrate the species. All the examples of the forms referred to here 

 should be preserved for careful study. 



Noctua inopinatus, sp. nov. 



Among the material received from Mr. A. W. Hanham, Winnipeg, 

 Manitoba, are specimens that I have named haruspica with some doubt. 

 Other examples from Corfield, Vancouver and 264 (Gillette) Colorado, 

 have increased that doubt and I venture the above name to indicate a. 

 form intermediate between the eastern haruspica and the western sierrce. 

 In size the new species averages less than haruspica and the color is as 

 a whole more evenly smoky and with less red. The ordinary spots are 

 somewhat better relieved, while the median lines tend to become broken 

 and incomplete, while yet the detached parts may be well marked. 



In all other respects, including sexual structure of the male, the 

 agreement is with haruspica and the species may be deemed an impres- 

 sionist one, rather than one based on sharply definable characters. 

 Plate VII, fig. 1, illustrates the sexual pieces, the figure given in my 

 Revision having been made, as now appears, from an imperfect speci- 

 men. 

 Noctua treatii Grt. 



Since I wrote in 1890 this species has turned up in several places and 

 is now well represented in a number of collections. To the locality 

 given in my catalogue must be added Jefferson, N. H. ; Adirondack 

 Mountains, N. Y. ; Central Maine and Calgary, Canada. None of 

 the examples seen approaches in size the specimen referred to in my Re- 

 vision and now in the U. S. National Museum. 



Noctua exuberans, sp. nov. 



Ground color gray, varying from reddish to almost ashen, more or less irrorated. 

 Head without markings; palpi deep brown at the sides. Collar with the lower half 

 deep sienna brown. Thorax otherwise without markings. Primaries with the 

 median lines obsolete, except on costa where the basal, t. a. and t. p. lines are indi- 

 cated by black spots. A median shade is indicated by a brownish cloud. In one 



