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BROOKLYN JUNE 1878. No. 2. 



ON SOME SPECIES OE 

 NOCTUIDAE COMMON to NORTH AMERICA and EUROPE. 



Agrotis obelisca II. Sch. 



OBELISCOIDES Quell. 



sexatilis Orote. 

 Of Agrotis obeliscoides ( sexatilis ) I took a number of speci- 

 mens in Sullivan Co. N. Y. and found two forms, differing- from 

 each other only in one (sexatilis) having ilie interior margins of its 

 primaries more conspicuously powdered with light gray. 



The other form is the same as Hie European obelisca. Lederer in 

 (Noctninen Europa's pag. 221) states: " like A. tritici and A., aqui- 

 lina, which undergo all shades of coloration from dull brownish gray 

 and undistinctly marked specimens to violet brown and distinctly 

 marked with and without the lighter dcttei (powdered ) margin^ 

 - so also varies A. obelisca." — A. sexatilis is the variety of obelis- 

 coides with the interior margins of its anteriors powdered with light 

 gray - obeliscoides is like obelisca, consequently they are one and 

 the ame species. 



Hadena basilenea Linn. 



FIWITIMA Gfole. 



My specimens of H. finitima are identical with H. basilinea of 

 Europe. I at first supposed the reddish brown patch in the middle 

 of the anteriors of finitima was constant but I have now speci- 

 mens with out this distinguishing mark, otherwise the two spe- 

 cies are alike. 



