LEPIDOPTERA HETEROCERA. 691 



Agrotis VETUSTA. 



Mas. Fuscescente-cinerea ; palpi oblique ascendentes^ articulo 3o 

 longi-conico ; antenna robusta, setulosce ; alee anticce nigro 

 conspersce, striga basali liturisque paucis nigris, orbieulari 

 annuliformi, linea submarginali cinerea angulosa, punctis 

 marginalibm nigris ; posticce pallide cinerece, fuscescente 

 marginatce. 



Male. Brownish-cinereous. Palpi obliquely ascending, not 

 rising so high as the vertex; second joint clothed with short closely 

 applied hairs; third elongate-conical, acute, very minute. Antennae 

 stout, very minutely setulose. Abdomen cinereous, extending some- 

 what beyond the hind wings; apical tuft rather large. Fore wings 

 thinly black-speckled, with a black basal streak, and with a few in- 

 determinate black marks behind the orbicular mark and near the 

 exterior border; orbicular mark composing a rather large black 

 ringlet; reniform mark of the usual shape; submarginal line 

 cinereous, zigzag; marginal points black. Hind wings pale 

 cinereous, brownish towards the exterior border. Length of the 

 body JO lines; of the wings 24 lines. 



West Canada. In the Rev. Mr. Bethune's collection. 



Agrotis ordinata. 



Fcem. Cinerea, nigro conspersa ; palpi por recti, articulo 3o bre- 

 vissimo ; antennae subsetulosce ; tibia basi fasciculate ; ala 

 anticce lineis quatuor nigris, \a 2aque duplicatis, la ab- 

 breviata, Sa dentata, 4a denticulata, spatio mar ginali fusces- 

 cente lineam submarginalem angulosam includente, orbieulari 

 et reniformi magnis nigro marginatis ; posticce pallide cinerea, 

 puncto discali venis spatioque marginali obscurioribus. 



Female. Cinereous, black-speckled. Palpi porrect, extending 

 a little beyond the head ; second joint clothed with rather long 

 hairs; third conical, very minute. Antennas very minutely setulose. 

 Abdomen paler, extending a little beyond the hind wings. Femora 

 fringed on the inner side ; tibiae and tarsi spinose, the former with 

 a tuft of hairs above at the base. Fore wings with four transverse 

 black lines ; first and second lines double ; first near the base, ab- 

 breviated hindward ; second at half the distance between the first 

 and the orbicular mark ; third dentate, somewhat diffuse, between 

 the orbicular mark and the reniform mark; fourth denticulate, 



