JVo.6.] GROTE ON NORTH AMERICAN AGROTIS. 153 



It is by no means impossible for Mr. Strecker and others to make 

 important changes in synonyms without seeing the species in question, 

 and apparently without reading the original description. So, C. coelebSy 

 which I have originally described as having the wings gray and black, 

 and looking like consors, is referred by him as a synonym to badia, on the 

 strength of dark and well-marked hrotim specimens of badia, which are 

 christened " coclebs^^ without reference to what ^^ccclebs" really is. The 

 true coelebs has been taken in Canada by Mr. Norman, in ]N"orthern New 

 York by Mr. Hill, and in Maine by Mr. Allen. It has deep-black pri- 

 maries, much shaded exteriorly with gray ; the lines distinct, velvety 

 black ; the hind wings are like badia, to which the form is nearest allied. 

 It seems to connect badia with antinymplia. Festina lente ! 



Agrotis apicalis u. 8. 



Deep brown, shaded with black. Fore wings uniform deep brown, 

 with the veins blackish and shaded with black from the reniform to 

 the external margin, the black color si)reading to the costal edge of 

 the wing. Median lines propiuquitous, subparallel, black, lunulate, 

 geminate. Stigmata concolorous, moderate, indistinct. Claviform ob- 

 solete. Posterior line feebly exserted superiorly, angulate on vein 4. 

 Some terminal interspaceal linear shades ; no traces of subterminal line 

 ai^parent ; anterior line perpendicular, more noticeably waved and gem- 

 inate than the posterior line. Hind wings fuscous, beneath paler, with 

 mesial line. Thorax and abdomen untufted, smooth. Head and collar 

 blackish ; thorax brown, with deeper edges to the tegulpe. Tibise all 

 armed, anterior pair with two long, terminal, straight spines ; eyes naked ; 

 clypeus rough. Colorado. Length of ijrimary, 15 mil. Eesembles 

 opaca; the apical shading gives the species a resemblance to some forms 

 of coelodasys. Very distinct by its color and the course of the median 

 lines. 



This species belongs to the section Pleonectopoda, which I have incor- 

 rectly taken as a fresh generic type. It is characterized by the spinose 

 fore tibiae having the rows of spinules terminated by a much longer 

 spine on each side of the joint. The term may come to be used for a 

 section of the genus when the armature of all the species becomes known. 

 It has been incorrectly used by Mr. Morrison, who afterwards pointed 

 out to me that the type of the genus, LeioisH Grote, was not generically 

 separable from Agrotis, and that the characters given by me are unes- 

 sential. (Bull. B. S. N. S., 1, 136.) 



Agrotis cloanthoides n. s. 



2 . All the tibiae spinose, the anterior pair with two longer straight 

 spines at the end of the joint. Eyes naked ; body untufted. Closely 

 allied to albalis, from Nevada, but differing by the clear whitish fuscous 

 and black colors, whereas albalis is shaded over with soft grayish white, 

 obscurmg the markings. Colors of lagena. The stigmata are quite 

 small, as in albalis; the cell black; the orbicular elongate white 



