1863.] 
7o 
Additions to the Catalogue of XT. S. LEPIDOPTERA, No. 5. 
BY AUG. R. GROTE. 
NOCTUINA, H-S. 
AGROTIS Ochs. 
A. texanus nov. sp. (Plate 6, fig. 2, 9 •) 
Anterior wings dark yellowish brown shaded irregularly with black. 
Reniform, orbicular and claviform spots same color as the rest of the 
wing distinctly margined with black, the former with black center. 
Median lines black, sinuate, geminate, the transverse anterior the best 
defined. A faint black median shade line runs from the costa to the in¬ 
ternal margin between the reniform and orbicular spots more apparent 
in the 9 . Subterminal line absent in the 9 ? irregularly apparent in 
the S . Terminal space shaded with black along the nervures and with a 
terminal row of small black lunules merging into a straight line toward 
the internal angle; fringes light. Posterior wings white, immaculate in 
the % , shaded with brownish along the exterior margin and nervules in 
the 9 ; fringes white. Underside of anterior wings shaded with light 
brown, darker along the costa and exterior margin, lighter at the base and 
along the internal margin and showing the median lunule hiintly. 
Underside of posterior wings white, darker shaded along the upper 
margin. Thorax and head same color as anterior wings; tegulm with 
a semicircular dark brown line at base. Abdomen lighter than thorax, 
of a more greyish shade underneath. Antennae brownish strongly 
pectinated to the middle in the % , simple in the 9 . Exp.S inch. 
9 If inch. 
Hah. Western Texas. Two specimens in fine condition in the col¬ 
lection of the Entomological Society of Philadelphia. 
This species seems to be allied to A. malefida Gruenee Noct. 1, p. 
267, a species I am not acquainted with, but it differs from Giuenee’s 
description of the latter species in the shape of the ordinary spots, 
while the expression “ Ailes super, d’un gris-testace un peu rougeatre,” 
but indifferently applies to the%>ecies T have just described. 
In the Wiener Entom. Monat., Vol. 6, 1862, Plate 1, fig. 2 to 5, pp. 
130—133, Mr. H. B. Moschler has figured and described four species 
of this genus belonging to our fauna from Labrador, viz. A. Wockei^ 
