AGIiOTIS BRUNNEIPENNI8, n. s. 



Allied to cupida, but smaller. Fore tibiae unarmed. Thorax and fore 

 ^•ings of a glossy chestnut brown, soniewiiat reddish. None of the usual 

 markings are noticeable. The subteriiiinal space is stained with blackish. 

 Following the s.t. line is a series of faint pale interspaceal fleckings. 

 Ordinary lines indicated on costal region. Hind wings blackish fuscous. 

 Abdomen beneath stained with reddish brown as is the costal region of 

 primaries; else tiie blackish wings beneath siiow only a common black trans- 

 verse line, which fades out towards the internal margins. Palpi black at 

 the sides. Head brown above. 



Expanse 30 m.m. Mass., Mr. Thaxter, No. 2,303. 



Type Locality: Massachusetts. 



NuJiBER A>'D Sexes of Types: 



Types in: British Museum, 1 $. 



Specimexs Exajiixed: about 40 showing all gradations to cupida; from, 

 Concord, Mass.; Flatbush, N. Y. City, N. Y. ; N. Y.; Lititz and Bethlehem, 

 Pa.; Browns Mills, N. J. 



Gexitalic Slides: 1, Concord, Mass.; 1, Browns Mills, N. J. 



This is a very common and variable species ; seemingly in a 

 very unstable evolutionary state. Scarcely anj^ two specimens are 

 identical in appearance or color. Its one distinguishing superficial 

 character is a bright glossy sheen to the wings. Its wing shape, 

 also, is peculiar; the primaries being narrow, elongate, and with 

 more of an incurve to the inner margin, than is possessed by other 

 members of the genus. It can scarcely be confused with any other 

 species in the genus due to this peculiar wing shape and glossy 

 appearance. 



Cupida and form briinneipennis intergrade as might, well be ex- 

 pected, and there are all kinds and styles of intermediates ; from 

 light yellowish thru reds to deep purple and almost black. 



The author thinks it best to restrict the name hrunneipennis, as 

 a form, to the deep purple-brown, mentioned by Hampson. This 

 form appears to be commonest in Massachusetts, altho the author 

 has specimens of this color, but larger than typical, in his col- 

 lection from Browns Mills, N. J. 



LAMPRA BELFRAGEI, Sm. 



1878. Grt., Can. Ent., X, 234, cupida form, (Aflrotis). 



1890. Sm., Bull. U. S. N. M., XXXVIH, 19, Rhynchagrotis. 



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



1893. Sm., Bull. U. S. N. M., XLIV, 53, Rhynchagrotis. 



1895. Grt., Abh. Nat. Ver., Bremen, XIV, 18, Agrotis (Lampra). 



1903. Hamp., Cat. Lep. Phal. B. M., IV, 640, pi LXXVII, f. 16, (size, too 



small), Triphaena. 

 1908. Sm., Can. Ent., XL, 286, Rhynchagrotis. 



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