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lines represented by blackish points on the veins ; orbicular a small 

 blackish spot ; reniform narrow, erect, dusky ; subterminal line 

 only defined by a slight diiference in colour between the post- 

 medial and terminal areas. Hind wing pale, the terminal area 

 tinged with fuscous. 



Hah. U.S.A., Florida. Exji. 31 millim. This species is unknown 

 to nie. 



654. Agrotis aurulenta. (Plate LXIX. fig. 26.) 



Agrotis aurulenta, Smith, Bull. U.S. Nat. Mus. 38, p. 215 (1890) ; id. Cat. 

 Noct. N. Am. p. 66. 



Head and thorax pale ochreous ; abdomen white, dorsally tinged 

 with ochreous towards extremity. Fore wing pale ochreous ; an 

 indistinct curved postmedial series of dark points on the veins. 

 Hind wing ochreous white ; the veins and terminal area browner ; 

 cilia pure white. 



Ab. 1. Fore wing suffused with rufous defining the pale lines, 

 the antemedial line angled, the subterminal line irregular ; the 

 orbicular and reniform with pale annuli and fuscous-tinged centres, 

 the former round. 



Hah. U.S.A., Nebraska, 1 $ , Colorado, Arizona. Exp. 40 

 millim . 



Sect. IV. ( Ochropleura). Antennae of male serrate and fasciculate. 



A. Tegulre white at base, chocolate-brown at tips. 



a. Fore wing with the median nervure streaked with white ... clarivena 



b. Fore wing with the median nervure not streaked with 



white rausiva. 



B. Tegul£e concolorous. 



a. Fore wing with purplish-brown oblong patch on middle of 



costal area, including the stigmata exoleta. 



h. Fore wing with the cell dark before and between the 

 stigmata. 



rt^. Fore wing with the postmedial line not dentate glareosa. 



h^. Fore wing with the postmedial line dentate clocUis. 



c. Foi'e wing with the cell not dark before and between the 



stigmata ■; castanea. 



*65o. Agrotis clarivena. (Plate LXIX. fig. 27.) 



Agrotis clarivejia, Piing. Iris, xiii. p. 11(3, pi. 4. f. 8 (1899) ; Stand. Cat. 

 Lep. pal. p. 254, add. 



Head whitish and purple-browu ; tegulee whitish at base, with 

 deep red-brown patch at tips ; thorax pale rufous or mixed with 

 grey ; hind tibite and tarsi white above ; abdomen grey, the ventral 

 surface purplish brown irrorated with grey. Fore wing red-brown 

 suffused with purplish grey ; the costal area creamy-white to the 

 postmedial line, the median nervure streaked with white ; a trian- 

 gular black patch below base of cell ; antemedial line obsolete from 

 costa to median nervure, then indistinct, double, excurved below 

 cell and more strongly above inner margin, claviform very 

 indistinctly defined by black above ; orbicular white, V-shaped, 



