AGKOPERINA. 403 



terminal area darker ; cilia white ; the underside white, the costal 

 and terminal areas irrorated with brown, a sinuous postmedial 

 line. 



Ab. 1. Much more rufous iu colour. 



Hub. Canada, Alberta, Calgary, 1 $ ; U.S.A., Colorado (Snoiv), 

 2 (S , "2 2 type, Hall Valley, 1 5 , Arizona. Exp. 46 millim. 



3233. Agroperina lutosa. (Plate CXVIII. fig. 14.) 



Orthosia lutoaa, Andrews, Can. Ent. ix. p. 99 (1877); Smith, Cat. Noct. N. 

 Am. p. 220. 



cJ. Head aud thorax white mixed with pale brown; abdomen 

 ochreous white. Eore wing grey-white irrorated with rufous ; 

 subbasal line represented by a dark point on costa ; antemedial line 

 waved, slightly curved ; claviform absent ; orbicular faintly defined 

 by brown, round ; reniform with slight pale annulus defined by 

 brown, its lower part filled in with fuscous, somewhat angled 

 inwards on median nervure ; postmedial line bent outwards below 

 costa, then dentate and produced to black points on the veins, oblique 

 below vein 4, some pale points beyond it on costa; subterminalline 

 pale slightly defined by brown on inner side, somewhat angled out- 

 wards at vein 7 and excurved at middle, the area beyond it rather 

 darker ; a terminal series of slight black lunules ; cilia ochreous and 

 fuscous. Hind wing ochreous white slightly irrorated with brown ; 

 the veins browner ; traces of a diffused subterminal band ; the under- 

 side with the costal area irrorated with rufous, a dark discoidal 

 spot and postmedial line on costal area. 



5 . Head, thorax, and fore Aving redder. 



Hah. U.S.A., Middle, Eastern, and Central States, Yermont, 

 Massachusetts, Newton (Thcuvter), Id', L 5 , ISew York, New 

 Jersey, S. Dakota, Volga, 1 d ,1 2 ■>'■ California 1 J • ^-^J)- 38-40 

 millim. 



3234. Agroperina lielva. (Plate CXVIII. fig. 15.) 



Orthosia hclva, Grote, Bull. Buff. See. Kat. Sci. ii. p. 310 (1875) ; Smith, 

 Cat. Noct. N. Am. p. 219. 



Head and thorax fulvous yellow tinged with rufous and slightly 

 irrorated with fuscous; sides of palpi and frons fuscous ; tarsi fuscous 

 with pale rings; abdomen yellow tinged with rufous towards 

 extremity, the dorsal crests tipped with fuscous and grey. Fore wing 

 fulvous yellow tinged with rufous ; subbasal line double, minutely 

 waved, from costa to submedian fold, a dark spot beyond it in cell 

 before the antemedial line, which is double, the inner line slightly 

 sinuous, the outer strongly excurved in the interspaces and angled 

 inwards on the veins ; claviform slightly defined by brown ; orbicular 



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