426 PROCEEDINGS OF THE ACADEMY OF 



abdomen short, untufted. Primaries widening- outwardly, with 

 depressed costal margin. Antennae of the male simple, ciliate. 



Fala ptycophora, n. s. 



$ . Fore wings gray, shaded with ochreons, especially in two 

 stripes from the base outwardly across the disk, and downwardly 

 below median vein to internal angle. T. a. line geminate, deeply 

 and widely dentate. Orbicular shaded with white, rounded, annu- 

 late with blackish-brown. Reniform narrow, elongate, scroll- 

 shaped, white with brown annulus. Median space very wide, the 

 t. p. line very near the subterminal, geminate, regularly lunate, 

 not very distinct. Subterminal line shaded with blackish, and 

 preceded by some very prominent white-filled dentations infe- 

 riorly. Fringes dark, interrupted narrowly with pale opposite the 

 extremity of the veins. Hind wings fuscous, beneath with pro- 

 longed lunule and faint median line. Thorax and head mixed 

 gray and blackish; tegulie rather prominent, recalling allied genera. 



Expanse 32 mm. 



Hab. California. 



Heliothis luteitinctus, n. s. 



Allied to phlogophagus, from which it differs by the light yellow 

 hind wings, with a broad black lunule and black hind margin 

 interrupted in the usual place with yellow. Beneath both wings 

 clear yellow, on the hind wings the discal mark is larger than in 

 its ally, flask-shaped, narrowed superiorly, the terminal black band 

 is reduced to a black submedian patch. In color of primaries and 

 in their indistinct marking this species is very similar to phlogo- 

 phagus; the medium shade is, however, absent. 



Expanse 30 mm. Nebraska, Mr. Dodge, No. 51. 



Tarache augustipennis, n. s. 



With the colors ofbiplaga, this species resembles rather termi- 

 nimaculata in the shape of the wings; the primaries are slightly 

 produced at internal angle, and are unusually narrow; form 

 slenderer than in its ally. Thorax and head blackish ; palpi and 

 under surface of body and collar at base whitish. Fore wings 

 blackish, with a white stripe along median vein (and spreading 

 above it nearly to costal edge) to the place of the t. a. line. A 

 white curved fleck on the cell, sometimes connected with the basal 

 dash. A broad pre-apical white costal mark, and a narrower one 

 beyond it surmounting the whitish terminal space, where the 



