species, except that there is little or no variation in the costal region, 
or along the posterior margin, but a light line runs through the center 
of the wing from the base to neatf the t. p. line, and the black spots 
around^ the stigmata lack the brown or smoky appearance. Reniform 
buff. Phe t. p. line is indicated by a series of black crescents, but 
not points. Hind wings almost uniform smoky black. 
Remarks .—In reference to the synonymy of this species and A. 
subgothica Aug. R. Grote, whose catalogue I am following in the 
Noctuidse, says (Bui. Soc. Nat. Sciences, Vol. 1, page 100), “This is the 
Agrotis subgothica of American agricultural publications, such as the 
lsu Missouri Report, Page 82, Fig. 29. It is not the Agrotis subgothica 
of English writers, which is A. jaculifera , Guenee, Stephen’s figure of 
Agrotis subgothica , Plate 22, Fig. 3, and description, page 126, Haust. 
If, is decisive. The peculiar discoloration of the reniform spot dis¬ 
tinguishes A. jaculifera, and the paler hind wings, greater extent of 
pallid shades on the fore arms and smaller size are chracteristic and 
are all well rendered by Stephen’s illustrations. When I was in 
France M. Guenee stated to me that he had discovered the fact that 
his Agrotis jaculifera was the same as the Agrotis subgothica of English 
writers, and also that he believed that the form so described as Agrotis 
herilis was a distinct species ] the latter contrary to the statement 
made in the Species General. Agrotis subgothica is figured on Plate 1, 
Fig. 11, of the 1st Missouri Report correctly, but under its synonym, 
of Agrotis jaculifera , which latter name I retained for the species in 
determining the Noctuidae of the collection of the American Ento¬ 
mological Society, whence Mr. Riley received his determination. I 
was not then able to examine the English authors, who first noticed 
our species from specimens accidentally introduced into their country. 
Mr. Riley’s figures of A. herilis , above cited, have been copied with 
erroneous determination by eastern writers.” 
The above was published in 1873, the Missouri report referred to by 
Mr. Grote in 1869. At the time the above quotation was written 
Mr. Grote referred the specimens of the group now presented by three 
species A. subgothica , A. tricosa and A. herilis to the two species subgoth¬ 
ica and herilis. The next year 1874, Mr. Lintner in his Annual Report 
of N. Y. State Museum of Natural History, described the medium 
forms as a new species under the name of Agrotis tricosa. 
Agrotis tesshllata, Harris—The Checkered Rustic. 
The larva is the striped or corn-cut worm. The moth here desig¬ 
nated as the checkered rustic, was described and named by Dr. Har¬ 
ris in his valuable work, “Insects Injurious to Vegetation,” but it 
has only recently been determinea that this moth is the parent of the 
cut-worm described by Dr. Fitch in his second report as the Striped 
^ut-worm, and in his ninth report where it is more extensively 
described as the Corn Cut-worm. 
Note In my part of the article on garden insects in the last State Horticultural Report, ow- 
t° the haste in which it was prepared, I have used Prof. Riley’s figures under the name of 
A. herilis. As soon as I came to examine the figure I saw I had made a mistake, that the figure 
was really Mr. Lintner’s A. tricosa, but it was then too late to make the correction in the article 
referred to. 
