€46 NOCTTJID^. 



incurved below vein 4 ; a pale minutely dentate subterrainal line 

 angled outwards at vein 7 and excurved at middle, with some pale 

 points and a black i:)atcli before it at costa ; a terminal series of 

 black points. Hind wing yellowisH suffused wholly with red-brown ; 

 the cilia pale ; the underside pale irrorated Avith brown, a dark 

 discoidal lunule and sinuous postmedial line. 



Hah. Canada {Norman), 1 (5* , 1 $ ; U.S.A., Northern, Eastern, 

 Middle, and Central States, New York, Trenton Falls {Douhleday), 

 2 c? type, Evan's Centre (Grote), 5 <S , 1 5 . Exy. 44 millim. 



Larva. Dyar, Proc. Ent. Soe. Wash. It. p. 317 (1899). 



Head 2-5 millim., rather dark brown, obscuring the brown 

 reticulations and curved band from vertex, with a narrower line 

 running upward from the eye. Body pale brown, somewhat 

 pinkish or cream-colour ; dorsal line narrow, pale, brown-marked 

 and shortly broken in the incisures ; subdorsal shades and lines 

 scarcely perceptible ; substigraatal line straight above, narrowly 

 pale, edged with a dark line that runs through the centres of the 

 spiracles (except on joint 12), broad, ill-delined below, and shading 

 into the pale subventral area. 



Probably a general feeder. — H. G. D. 



1111. Eueretagrotis perattenta. (Plate LXXVII. fig. 21.) 



Agrotis ■perattentus, Grote, Can. Ent. vi. p. 131 (1874) ; id. 111. Essay, 51, 

 pi. 1. f. 7 ; Smith, Cat. Noct. N. Am. p. 60. 



Head and thorax reddish brown mixed with grey and slightly 

 with black ; palpi blackish at sides ; tegulse black at extremities ; 

 tarsi black ringed with white ; abdomen grey, tinged with rufous 

 towards extremity and on ventral surface. Pore wing grey, largely 

 suffused with purple-brown : a diffused black streak below base of 

 cell ; a double subbasal line from costa to submedian fold, angled 

 inwards in cell ; a double oblique, irregularlj' waved antemedial 

 line ; claviform small, outlined with black ; orbicular and reuiform 

 greyish, defined by black and with the cell before and between them 

 black, the former rather small, nearly round ; a minutely dentate 

 postmedial line defined by grey on outer side, bent outwards below 

 costa, slightly incurved in discal fold, and incurved below vein 4 ; 

 the pale subterminal line with the area before it purple-brown and 

 some pale points and blackish patch at costa, angled outwards at 

 vein 7 and excurved at middle ; a terminal series of black points. 

 Hind wing greyish irrorated with fuscous brown especially towards 

 termen ; a terminal series of dark striae ; underside more pro- 

 minently irrorated, with dark discoidal lunule and sinuous postmedial 

 line. 



Hah. Canada, Eenfrew Co., 2 (S , 3 § ; U.S.A., Northern and 

 Eastern States to Mississippi and Texas, New Yorlv (Douhleday), 

 :i (S , Evan's Centre {Grote), 1 J , 1 $ tyPe? Kats Kills, 1 S. 

 Exp. 40-42 millim. 



