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ous, nearly straight. Orbicular round, nearly concolorous, with a bright 

 stain edging the fine incomplete annulus within. Eeniform reddish 

 orange, contrasting, ui)right, with incomplete brown annulus, shaded 

 with ochrey. A faint dotted terminal line. Hind wings fuscous with 

 paler fringes. Beneath paler, shaded with rosy ; with discal marks and 

 exterior irregular common line. Collar brighter than the rosy brown 

 head and thorax. Exi)anse, 40 mil. Sauzalito, Cal. 



Agrotis Washingtoniensjs u. s. 



(? 9 . I have considered this a form of innotahilis (Can. Ent. 12, 154), but 

 a larger series of specimens collected by Mr. Morrison in Washington 

 Territory shows no nearer approach to my type of innotahilis from Cali- 

 fornia. In Wasliingtoniensis the median space is shaded with rich brown, 

 the claviform is outlined, and several fine black lines cross the median 

 space inferiorly. The orbicular is more oblique and is bright brown, 

 not concolorous as in innotahilis ; it is somewhat larger and squarer. 

 The collar is bicolorous in both, and else the two species are much alike. 



Agrotis immixta n. s. 



(? . This species is paler than inconcinna, the <? antennae more length- 

 ily bristled, the fringes of the hind wings entirely pale. Pale grayish 

 brown, the lines indistinct but strongly indicated by double black cos- 

 tal marks. The stigmata small, not dark ringed, paler than the wing, 

 very inconspicuous. The s. t. line relatively well marked, broken. Hind 

 wings whitish with the veins soiled, a. faint terminal border and the 

 fringes entirely pale ; beneath with a dotted submarginal line. Fore 

 wings beneath smoky with an even curved extra-mesial line. Discal 

 marks indicated. Head and thorax pale brown ; second joint of palpi 

 blackish at the side. Tarsi dotted. Expanse 32 mil. Texas, May 12, 

 Belfrage No. 518 (red label). 



The exterior line on primaries is unusually removed outwards towards 

 the s. t. line. This cannot be a form of auxiliaris, but it is not improb- 

 able that inconcinna is a form of that protean and widely distributed 

 species. 



Agrotis docilis n. s. 



2 . Large-sized, resembling the type form of auxiliaris, or perexcellens, 

 or Woclcei in the markings. Lilac gray over blackish fuscous ; the cell 

 filled with blactc between and around the spots. Stigmata large, fiir 

 apart, gray. Orbicular oblique, rounded above, straight below 5 clavi- 

 form filled with black ; reniform upright, excavate outwardly, narrow and 

 long. Lines incompletely double, with pale included shades. T. p. line 

 forming a series of irregular black lunules, more uneven and drawn in 

 below median vein than in allied species. S. t. line consisting of a series 

 of broken cuneiform spots marked by pale shades outwardly. Hind 

 wings and fringes unicolorous pale fuscous. Beneath the hind wings 

 a little paler but nearly unicolorous pale fuscous without marks. Thorax 

 and head like fore wings ; collar fiiintly lined ; palpi and legs dark fus- 

 cous. Expanse, 48 mil. Colorado, Professor Snow. 



