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little sunken. Apex of primaries sharj); outer margin lightly curving 

 in below apices ; full inferiorly. Eusset-brown, somewhat thinly scaled 

 on the wing. Forewings reddish brown, nearly concolorous ; reniforra 

 a vague black shade. Lines wanting. The veins are a little marked 

 with black in place of t. j). line, and show exceedingly minute pale dots 

 terminally. Hind wings subdiaphonous, fuscous. Thorax and head 

 like forewings. Outline of normalis. Secondaries with the hind mar- 

 gin indented subapically ; beneath with discal dot. The color beneath 

 is uniform, reddish fuscous, with veins marked on both wings. Wash- 

 ington Territory. In my Collection. In form the relationship to the 

 Californian erythrolita is evident. 



Tapinostola orientalis n. s. 



Size smaller than Senta defecta ; wings narrower; apices somewhat 

 blunt, yet determinate. Eyes naked. Abdomen (of the female) siiort 

 and plump, untufted. Head close to the thorax, roughly haired ; labial 

 palpi somewhat dependent. Clypeus smooth. Forewings of the usual 

 heliophiloid tints. Yeins pale. Subcostal and median veins lined with- 

 in on the cell finely with black. Submedian interspace above the fold 

 pale yellowish. T. p. line indicated by a black dot on submedian fold, 

 a smaller one between 2 and 3, and faint traces of others superiorly. 

 A fine, black terminal line cut by the whitish nervules. Hind wings 

 lighter at base, pale, with a light fuscous terminal shade; extra-mesial 

 line indicated. Beneath, without markings, pale; a dot on hind wings; 

 veins marked. Two specimens, Kittery Point, Me. Collection of Mr. 

 Thaxter. This cannot be variana, on account of the dotted t. p. line. 



Nonagria subflava Grote. 



A specimen agreeing with my type, but a very little smaller, has 

 been taken by Mr. Thaxter at Xewtonville, Mass. My type is from 

 Northern Illinois. 



Scopelosoma mofifatiana u. s. 



This species, captured in the autumn on oak lea res by Mr. Moffat, 

 of Kingston, I have formerly regarded as the same as gy((cjiana. Mr. 

 Thaxter thinksit is different and calls my attention to the followingpoints : 

 It is generally larger ; more richly colored, being of a reddish-orange, 

 while (jrajieana is yellow. The transverse lines are blackish, not red, 

 and more uneven; the t. a. line arched in moffatiana. The hind wings 

 are suffused with red in the new species, and I find that the mesial line 

 is more even. Taken with ccromntica. Mr. Mofltat has cai)tured many 

 rare Lepidoptera ; among the Noctuid;!^, I note especially Arzama 

 (UJfum. I have supposed that moffatiana was fresh, ?iwi\imnii\^ graefiana, 

 and figured it as such in my essay, incorrectly. 



This discovery that the type of gracjiana is the Fall form, and tliat it 

 is always to be distinguished from moffaliana by its yellow grouiK,! 

 color, red lines, which are also straighter and, perhaps, thicker, as well 



