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Descriptions of New Noctuidae. 



By A. li. Grote. 



Agrotis verticalis, n. s. 



(^9- Allied to tessdlata and campesfris. Hind wings of the male 

 white, like affripennis ; of the female, white, dusted with fuscous ; in 

 the male, a narrow fuscdus bordering before the white interlined 

 fringes. Fore wings smooth, dusky gray. Lines geminate, black ; 

 basal half-line distinct, and like the anterior line, with an included 

 pale streak. Orbicular large, ovate, decumbent, neatly black-ringed, 

 the ring finely-edged inwardly with pale. Reniform upright, ringed 

 as orbicular, well-sized ; both stigmata concolorous. Cell shaded be- 

 fore the orbicular, and centrally and again beyond the reniform, with 

 reddish-brown in the female ; in the male this is absent, or replaced 

 by a faint blackish shading. Sub-terminal space shaded with red- 

 dish brown, or blackish on costa, where it includes pale ante-apical 

 costal points. Posterior line distinct on costa above the reniform, 

 where it is like the other lines ; below, it becomes faint and denticu- 

 late. Sub-terminal line as in cc&npestris, pale. Terminal space 

 blackish, leaving the apex paler. Two specimens similarly sized 

 with campestris, collected by Prof. Snow in Colorado. 



Mamestra Crotchii, ». s. 



(~^9- Olive gray or pale fuscous. Lines obliterate. The most 

 prominent mark is the large, heavily-outlined clariform. Its black 

 border extends below it as a streak above internal margin near the 

 base. Sub-terminal line pale, extending along the veins and form- 

 ing the usual TV-mark, and preceded here by distinct interspaceal 

 black cuneiform marks. Fringes notched with black. Hind wings 

 fuscous, paler at base, with a discal lunule. Beneath pale fuscous, 

 with obliterate lines ; on both wind's a discal lunule which, on second- 

 aries, joins a black basal ray. Thorax like fore wings, crested. Eyes 

 hairy. The reniform and orbicular are near together ; the former 

 darker, a little constricted, bulging inferiorly, the latter decumbent ; 

 both spots nearly concolorous, incompletely black-ringed. The 

 tegulae are incompletely blaek-iriar|fined. Expanse 32 to 3-4 mil. 

 This distinct form is allied to trifolii, and was collected by Crotch, in 

 Oregon. Also from Colorado. 



