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crennlata Sm. 



1887, Sm., Proc. U. S. N. M., X, 451, Agrotis. 



An examination of the supposed type of morrisonistigma in the 

 Museum of Natural History reveals the fact that the specimen labeled 

 as presumable type is a male with an Oregon label on the pin. This 

 may or may not be the type, for Grote states his type came from Cali- 

 fornia, but fifty years ago less attention was paid to locality labels, 

 and an erroneous label may have gotten on the pin. At any rate, this 

 specimen, altho not in the best of condition, appears to be the same 

 form figured by Grote, and agrees well with specimens recently com- 

 pared with the type of crenulata (National Museum) ; and a prior 

 comparison with the $ type (nee 5 ) of binominalis (Tepper Col- 

 lection) by Dr. McDunnough ; (see Benj., 1921, Bull. S. CaHf. Ac. 

 Sci., XX, pp. 108 et seq. for bibliography). 



HADENINAE 



Anarta magna sp. nov. 



Head and thorax olivaceous-white mixed with fuscous. Abdomen fuscous, 

 with a considerable olivaceous-white admixture. Primaries : ground color oliva- 

 ceous-white, tinged with violaceous-grey and sprinkled with fuscous ; basal line 

 black, strong, somewhat rubbed on the specimens before the authors and its 

 exact course indeterminate, t. a. line black, strong, oblique from costa, connected 

 to the orbicular by a black shade in cell, produced to points above and below 

 vein 1 ; claviform not well defined, outlined by a few black scales ; true orbicular 

 absent, its place being taken by a violaceous-grey shade extending from costa 

 to base of vein 2; a patch of fuscous in cell connecting the "orbicular" with the 

 reniform; reniform not well marked, whitish, kidney-shaped, faintly surrounded 

 by black and with a fuscous central crescent ; t. p. line black, produced to points 

 on the veins, excurved from costa, incurved below vein 4, distally bordered by 

 pale scaling; s. t. line faint, whitish, well marked mesially by sagitate black 

 dashes between the veins, the black dashes more or less conjoined into a decided 

 s. t. shade, nearly parallel to the outer margin ; a terminal line of elongate black 

 dots between the veins; fringe checkered black and white. Secondaries: white, 

 with a narrow black terminal line and a broad black terminal band occupying 

 one third of the area of the wing except for a white patch at the anal angle, 

 a trace of a black median shade, considerable heavy fuscous suffusion on the 

 inner and basal areas, and with a large black discoidal spot ; fringe white except 

 along the inner margin. Beneath : white, powdered with scattered black scales ; 

 forewing with black discal spot, t. p. line marked on costa, a suffused black 

 s. t. shading and a terminal row of black dots between the veins, fringe white, 

 faintly marked with black; hind wing with a black discal spot connected to 



