Unfortunately we have no genitalic check, as the only male 

 specimen of typical insiilaris seen by the author lacks a body. A 

 female, compared with the type in the British Museum of insularis, 

 by Sir George Hampson, is in the Barnes Collection, together with 

 intermediates to confusa from Vancouver. A female, compared 

 with the type of coyifusa, in the Tepper Collection, by Dr. Mc- 

 Dunnough, leaves little room for doubt. Dr. Smith, in this instance, 

 could scarcely have mixed his types, as typical confusa has no 

 Aery close resemblance to anything else except insularis, and the 

 "bright red-brown" of the original description at once places the 

 form. 



The female type in the Tepper Collection seems to be the only 

 type of this form (confusa) now in existence, as a list of the types 

 of the genus in the Brooklyn Museum, Smith Collection, and the 

 National Museum, show no types of confusa. In Bull. U. S. N. M., 

 XLIV, Smith states : "The types of this species are in the Tepper 

 Collection." 



Superficial Key to the Insularis Group 



I. — Deep pur^jle red-brown, presenting a very dark (blackish) 



appearance - insularis 



II. — Bright red-brown, presenting a lighter appearance 



...form confusa 



LAMPRA INSULARIS, Grt. 



1876. Grt., Bull. Buff. Soc. Nat. Sci., Ill, 82, Ayrotia. 



1883. Grt., Proc. Am. Phil. Soc, p. 144, Ac/rotis. 



1890. Sm., Bull. U. S. N. M., XXXVIII,' 31, = formaUs var. (Rhi/ncha- 



gratis ). 

 189.3. Sm., Bull. U. S. N. M., XLIV, 55, ^facula form (Rht/nchagrotis). 

 189.5. Grt., Abb. Nat. Ver., Bremen, XIV, 18, =formalis var. (Agrotis) 



(Lampra). 

 1903. Plamp., Cat. Lep. Pbal. B. M., IV, 632, =formaUs (Triphaena). 



AGROTIS INSULARIS n. s. 



2 . — Purple recl-ljrown with asben costal region crossed by tbe gemi- 

 nate black transverse lines. Stigmata concolorous; cell between tbem and 

 before tbe orliicular black. Reniform narrowly edged witb pale. A black 

 sub-basal curved dash. Course of tbe lines as in e.rsertisfigina, collar asben; 

 tiiorax red-brown. Hind wings fuscous witb interlined fringes. Allied to 

 exsertistigma: differs in color and in tbe black lines, and in tbe more bent 

 subtermlnal followed by pale points, as well as in the more rounded or- 

 bicular. 



Exj^anse, .34""". Vancouver Island, Mr. Hy. Edwards, No. 4643. 



Type Locality: Vancouver Island. 



Number axd Sexes of Types : 1 9 . 



Types ix: British Museum. 



Specimexs Examixed: Total, 4 typical; from Duncans, Vane, 1 $, 

 2 5, and 1 J, compared with type in tbe British Museum, by Sir George 

 Hampson. Also 7 intermediates from Duncans, A'anc, Victoria, B. C, and 

 Brandon, Manitoba. 



Gexitalic Slibes: 1, intermediate to form confusa, from Brandon, 

 Manitoba. 



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