33 2 ENTOMOLOGICAL NEWS. [December, 



DESCRIPTIONS OF NEW SPECIES OF NOCTUID/E. 



By JOHN B. SMITH, Sc. D. 



From my correspondents I have received, in the course of the 

 last year or two, a number of Noctuids which seem to be unde- 

 scribed. As some of them are about to be distributed, or have 

 been distributed under manuscript names, it is deemed best to 

 present their descriptions at this time in advance of a more com- 

 plete paper to be published in the "Transactions" of the Amer- 

 ican Entomological Society. The plate contains figures of the 

 species here described, and the specimens were all collected by 

 Mr. F. H. Wolley Dod, Calgary, Canada. 



Noctua substrigata n. sp. PI. xv, fig. 4. Ground color of the head, 

 thorax and primaries a rich blackish brown with a more or less marked 

 greenish tinge along the costa. From the base to t. p. line is a yellow 

 shade extending below the submedian vein to the t. a. line, then broad- 

 ening to the median vein. This streak is more or less distinct, and is in- 

 terrupted by the dark veins and sometimes also by dusky streaks through 

 the intervals. The ordinary lines are well marked. The basal line is 

 geminate, pale, marked with brown shades at each side. The t. a. line 

 is formed of a narrow brown line, a very distinct, slightly broader yellow 

 exterior line, and sometimes in turn by a deep brown or blackish shading. 

 The line as a whole is sharply angulated on the subcostal vein and then 

 runs inwardly oblique and somewhat incurved to the inner margin, be- 

 coming indefinite through the yellowish color below the submedian vein. 

 The t. p. line is yellowish, preceded by a dark shade, but no distinct line, 

 and followed by a narrow, dusky line. In course it is rather even, but 

 with a strong bend outwardly over the cell. The s. t. line is a little irreg- 

 ular, marked by a blackish preceding shade which gradually fades into 

 the ground color before the t. p. line. The terminal space is clear brown, 

 crossed by the dusky veins and marked at the base of the fringes by a 

 series of small, inter-spacial dots. There is a blackish blotch in the basal 

 space below the median vein. The claviform is of a moderate size, out- 

 lined in black, centered with the brown ground color. The ordinary spots 

 are distinct and large; the orbicular is oblique and oblong; the reniform 

 kidney-shaped. In both cases the spots are outlined in black, and the cell 

 is blackish before and between the spots; the secondaries are smoky, pale 

 towards the base; beyond the middle there is an indefinite pale line, and 

 at the end of the cell is a small dusky lunule. On the underside the wings 

 are powdery gray with a more or less evidently marked extra-median 

 line and sometimes a little reproduction of the s. t. line. The head is 

 gray in front, as are also the tips of the palpi; the collar is gray tipped, 

 and the edges of the patagise are also more or less pale marked; the ab- 

 domen is of the color of the hind wings. Expands 32-38 mm.; 1.28-1.52 

 inches. 



