at base in cupidissima, and the liinule more obvious. A. cupida does not 

 as yet appear to occur in California. TJie provisional identification on 

 page 27 (ante) nnist be erased and the present substituted. I use the 

 number (56) for a different species. 



(Can. Ent., VII, 27,, 1875, herewith.) 

 56. Agrotis cupida Grote. 



A single specimen, without number, sent by Mr. Behrens, belongs ap- 

 parently to this species. 



Type Locality: Sanzalito, Mendocino, Calif. (Sir George Hampson). 



XuJJi3ER Axn Sexes of Types: 



Types i>; : British Museum (4 $ ). 



Specimens ExA:\riNED: 4, Mission San Jose, Calif.; 1, San Francisco, 

 Calif.; 1, "M'ashington Territory"; 1, Middle, Calif., marked, "cupidissimia, 

 but type a little redder. G. F. H."; 1 Solano Co., Calif., marked "cujndis- 

 i<ima var. not luetid-a. G. F. H." (G. F. H.=Sir George Hampson). 



Gexitai.ic Slides : 1, from first compared with type specimens men- 

 tioned above; 1, Mission San Jose, Calif. 



LAMPRA EXSERTISTIGMA form CUPIDISSIMA, 

 ab. LAETULA, Grt. 



1876. Grt., Bulk Buff. Soc. Nat. Sci., HI, 83, Agrotis. 



1878. Grt., Can. Ent., X, 234; = cupidissima, (Agrotis). 



1878. Grt., Bull. Geol. Surv., IV, 173, ? an sp. dist. cupidissirrui, (Agrotis). 



1883. Grt., Proc. Am. Phil. Soc, p. 144, Agrotis. 



1890. Sm, Bui. U. S. N. M., XXXVIII, 2i, = cupidissima, (Rhi/nchagrotis). 



1891. Grt., Can. Ent., XXIII, 150, (no genus). 



1893. Sm., BuU. U. S. N. M., XLI^^ 56, Rhynchagrotis. 



1895. Grt., Abb. Nat. Ver., Bremen, XIV, 17, Agrotis (Lampra). 



1903. Hamp., Cat. Lep. Phak, B. M., IV, 641,pl.LXXVII, f. 19, Triphaena. 



1908. Sm., Can. Ent., XL, 225, Rhynchagrotis. 



DISTRACTA, Sm. 



1887. Sm., Proc. U. S. X. M., X, 454, observabilis in error, (Agrotis). 



1890. Sm., Bull. L^ S. N. M., XXXVIII, 36, Rhynchagrotis. 



1893. Sm., Bulk U. S. N. M., XLIV, 56, = laetula, (Rhynchagrotis). 



1895. Grt., Abh. N^at. Ver., Bremen, XIV, 11 ,= kietul<i,( Agrotis) (Lampra). 



1903. Hamp., Cat. Lep. Phak B. M., IV, Qn,=l<xetula, {Triphaena). 



AGROTIS LAETULA, n. s. 



Allied to cupidissima. This species is smaller, and has a line on the 

 collar and the thorax and fore wings of a burnt brown, strewn with 

 ocher scales, which fill the stigmata in one specimen and in the other 

 leave the spots concolorous, while encircling them and filling the geminate 

 lines. Except in color, this form differs very little from ' cupidissima 

 while seeming narrower and shorter winged. All the stigmata shown. 

 Hind wings and under surface as in cupidissim-a, which is a light red 

 species. 



Expanse: 34 ™"\ Xos. 5983 and 180, California, Mr. Hy Edwards. 



Type Locality: California (?); "M'ashington Territory, 2 $ types" 

 (Sir George Hampson). 



X'l'mber axd Sexes of Types: $ and $ (original description) "2$" 

 (Sir George Hampson). 



Types ix: British Museum. 



Specimex's Examix'ed: See text. 



Gexitalic Slides: See text. 



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