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which are small, and appear to*be empty j on primaries a subterminal 

 shade. Expansion^ 34 millimetres. Vancouver Island {Mr. Henry Ed- 

 icards, No. 5626). 



Ageotis juncta, n. sp. 



$. — Size of treatii, which this species resembles in its dead black 

 primaries. Collar black at base, pale-tipped. Head pale ; thorax brown ; 

 abdomen pale fuscous. Fore wings with the t. a. line rounded, black ; 

 attached to it is the black, pale-margined claviform. Ordinary spots cou- 

 colorous, large, finely outlined with pale and fused below; the claviform 

 apparently touching the orbicular at base. S. t. line followed by small 

 pale marks. Hiud wings pale fuscous. Beneath pale, with indistinct 

 common line, and discal marks obsolete. Nova Scotia {Mr. Roland TJiax- 

 ter). One specimen. 



Agrotis micronyx, n. sp. 



9. — All the tibise spinose. Fore wings fuscous, with a whitisb-gray 

 cast. T. a. line perpendicular, black, with two subcostal teeth opposite 

 the orbicular, thence twice very slightly waved to internal margin, pre- 

 ceded by a whitish-gray shade. Orbicular rather large, rounded, gray, 

 annulate with black ; reniform finely and subobsoletely annulated with 

 black, and with a gray border, angulated exteriorly, and nearly touch- 

 ing the orbicular behind. T. p. line lunulate, tolerably even, obsoletely 

 double, with an interior gray shade. S. t. interspace wide ; s. t. line 

 gray, preceded by a faint brown shading. A terminal series of dark 

 dots alternating with similar dots at the base of the concolorous fringes. 

 Hiud wings dark fuscous, with pale interlined fringes. Beneath pale 

 fuscous, with common, even, subdentate line and ditcal marks. Expan- 

 sion, 30 millimetres. California {Henry Edwards, No. 4411). Appears to 

 belong to the messoria group, but is very different in appearance. 



Agrotis mercenarta, n. sp. 



$. — All the tibise armed ; antennae simple; body depressed. Allied 

 to inconcinna and auxilliaris rather than to clandestina. Entirely fus- 

 cous ; lines faint, double. Stigmata concolorous, all three narrowly out- 

 lined in black. Claviform rather long and narrow. Hind wings 

 fuscous, subpeilucid, with pale interlined fringes. Beneath much as in 

 auxilliaris. Expansion, 42 millimetres. Texas, November 12 {Bel/rage, 

 No. 586, red label). 



Agrotis idauoensis, n. sp. 



^.—Allied to costata, but differing in color. Primaries narrow, pur- 

 ple-fuscous. Costa broadly shaded with lilac-gray at base, absorbing 

 the orbicular above. Orbicular gray, oblique, rounded below not angu- 

 late as in costata. Reniform gray, smaller and narrower than in its 

 ally. At base below median vein is a rich blackish shade and between 

 the discal spots. Claviform large, concolorous, faintly outlined. T. p. 



