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streak ; the reniform upright. Lines obliterate. A fine white basal ray, 

 edged below with a black line and above with a blackish shade. The 

 interspaces are shaded longitudinally with fuscous and blackish. The 

 white subterminal line is as in albalis, but followed by interspaceal black 

 and fuscous stripes and marks. Fringes fuscous, cut with whitish at 

 extremity of veins. Hind wings white. Thorax fuscous gray, with 

 black lines on the tegulse. Expands 35 mil. Colorado, Mr. Graef. The 

 interspaceal dark stripes give the insect the appearance of an Actinotia 

 {Cloantha). 



Agrotis rubefactalis n. s. 



^ $ . In size, ornamentation, and structure this species closely resem- 

 bles Agrotis messoria, a species which occurs with but little variation 

 from east to west across the continent. The new species differs at once 

 by the red-tinged fore wings and thorax, by the fact that the collar has 

 a broad black hue, and by a prominent black and even shade which pre- 

 cedes the subterminal line on jjrimaries. Lines geminate, black, filled 

 in with the paler ground-color. Stigmata smaller than in messoria^ 

 pale-ringed ; orbicular round, with dark central dot ; reniform upright, 

 excavate outwardly, with dark centre 5 median shade black, diffuse, and 

 quite distinct. Secondaries dark fuscous, nearly unicolorous in both 

 sexes, with paler fringes. Washington Territory. Two fresh specimens. 

 The color is that of messoria and its allies, but shot with reddish, so that 

 the species looks like hrunneigera with the ornamentation of messoria. 



AGEOTIS Hiibn. Tentamen. 



(Tjpe: Noctua segetiim /S. V.) 



Chardinyi Boisd., Index, 94 ; Guen., Noct. 1, 317 ; gilvipennis Gr., 6th 

 Peab. Eep. 28. 



]S"orth. N. Y. ; Anticosti ; White Mountains ; Maine, 

 badicollis Gr., Bull. B. S. N. S. 1, 136. 



Ijf. T. ; Mass. 

 dilucida Morr., Proc. Ac. IS". S. Phil. 55, 1875. 



l!f. Y. ; Mass. 

 janualis Gr., Bull. Geol. Surv. 4, 169. 



N. Y. ; Mass. ; W. Ya. 

 pallidicoUis Gr.; Agrotis cinereicollis | Grote (non. Guen.), Bull. B. S. F. 

 S. 3, 79, pi. 4, fig. 6. 



California, 

 opacifrons Gr., Bull. Geol. Surv. 4, 170. 



sigmoides Guen., Noct. 1, 325. 



N. Y. ; Eastern States, 

 perattenta Gr., Can. Ent. 6, 131. 



Maine ; N. Y. 

 attenta Gr., Can. Ent. 6, 131. 



Maine ; IsT. Y. 



