Morrison.] 240 [March 1, 



the neighborhood of the median vein, on the anterior wings, clothed 

 with long soft hair. Expanse, 34 mm. 



Hab. Glencoe, Nebraska. Received from Mr. G. M. Dodge. 

 (No. 66.) 



The nearest ally of this fine species is the European Agrotis vestig- 

 ialis Rott. 



Segetia proxima nov. sp. 



Eyes naked. Clothing of the head, collar, thorax and palpi 

 coarse and mixed with scales; second joint of the palpi black. Ab- 

 domen wanting in the single specimen I have of the species. An- 

 terior wings gray, with the lines all faint, confused and rivulous; 

 interior line geminate, oblique, exterior very widely geminate, regu- 

 larly rounded ; orbicular spot reduced to a black dot, reniform dark 

 gray, indistinct, surrounded by several white points ; median shade 

 present before the spot ; subterminal line distinct, irregular, with a 

 brown tinge, followed by a light line ; a series of black dots, followed 

 by a light line at the base of the fringe. Posterior wings whitish, 

 translucent, with an irregular black border, extending up along the 

 veinlets. Beneath, the median space of anterior wings is blackish; 

 both the wings with yellowish costal borders, tinged with brown; 

 the rest of the wings white; fringes yellow at the base. Expanse, 

 32 mm. 



Hab. Texas. 



Homoglaea nov. gen. 



Eyes naked, with long lashes. Palpi short and weak. Head drawn 

 in. Front smooth and thickly clothed. Antennae in the male, with 

 a double row of short, blunt serrations, each provided with a long 

 yellow terminal tuft. Thorax stout, with the collar not separated, 

 and indeed hardly distinguishable, smoothly but thickly clothed, and 

 without tufts. Abdomen short and untufted. Wings shaped as in 

 Scopelosoma. All the tibiae smooth and unarmed, the femora clothed 

 beneath with unusually long hair. 



This genus is allied to Scopelosoma, from which it is separated by 

 the formation of the antennae. 



Homoglaea hircina nov. sp. 



Head, collar and thorax, dark purple gray. Anterior wings pur- 

 ple black; a light dot in the basal space; median lines light gray, 

 simple, broad, even and distinct; ordinary spots concolorous, with 

 brown annuli; veins light gray, particularly in the outer half of the 

 median space; claviform spot absent; subterminal line tinged with 



