2^0.2.] GROTE ON NORTH AMERICAN MOTHS. 261 



from the teeth of the s. t. line. Otherwise the two species are much 

 ahke in markings, and I hesitate to insist on other diiierences. It will 

 be readily distinguished by the above characters. Expanse, <? 3G, 9 iO 

 mil. 'New York, in June, coll. A. R. Grote; Wisconsin. 



Eadena violacea u. s. 



I have hitherto regarded this western species as the same as our east- 

 ern BridgJiamii, but it is evidently distinct. The ground color of pri- 

 maries is reddish washed with lilac at base and over the subterminal 

 space. The costal region is somewhat blackish. The stigmata are 

 large, discolorous, pale clay yellow, and the terminal space is pale clay, 

 interrupted with blackish at the middle and anal angle and leaving the 

 apices pale clay. The thorax is pale clay and the head, also base of 

 primaries ; the abdomen is still paler and the hind wings white without 

 bands. Beneath white, reflecting the markings of fore wings. Expanse, 

 35 mil. The type in my collection was collected by Mr. Behrens at 

 Shasta, Soda Springs. A soiled specimen from Sierra Nevada is in 

 collection Hy. Edwards. The wings are longer and narrower in violacea, 

 as compared with our eastern Bridgliamii. 



Hadena characta Gr., Can. Ent. 12, 243. 



Another female specimen in Mr. Tepper's collection from Nevada 

 differs from the type in being more shaded with blackish, the claviform 

 being suffused with black, and the black shading before the s. t. line 

 being more evidently expressed. The reniform and orbicular are black- 

 ish centrally. The ochrey tinge behind the reniform always contrasts. 

 The blackish fringes are neatly cut with white. The fuscous seconda- 

 ries are indented on external margin opposite the cell. The species 

 belongs to the series of curvata, adnixa, and fumosa. It is more gray, 

 black and white, than the others, and looks a little like an Agrotis at 

 first sight. 



Hadena tracta Grote, Pr. A. N. S. P. 204, 1874. 



This differs from chalcedonia by the thorax and fore wings at base 

 being smooth pale fawn color or ochrey. But it is in other respects so 

 like the Texan species which I determine as chalcedonia, that there can 

 be no doubt it is a variety. The "common species from New York pro- 

 visionally determined as chalcedonia,''^ with which I provisionally com- 

 pared it (1. c), is not Hiibner's species, and remains undetermined. It 

 is the "arna" of some collections, but not, I believe, of Grueuee. It 

 bears a MS. naine in my collection which I do not publish as the species 

 is so common (Massachusetts to Texas) it must be named in the B. M. 

 Lists, but what the name is cannot be made out from published data. 



Hadena paginata Moit., P, A. N. S. Phil. 64, 1875. 



I have examined Mr. Morrison's type through the kindness of Mr. 

 Tepper. It is not in very good condition, the wings a little crumpled 

 at the edges. It is a small glistening brown species looking like a 



