OF WASHINGTON, VOLUME XIV, 1912. 167 



THREE NEW NOCTUID^. 



BY HARRISON G. DYAR. 



Arenostola orphnina, new species. 



Gray, over soiled ocherous, generally evenly suffused with gray, nearly 

 obliterating the markings. In specimens with little suffusion all the veins 

 are dark-lined and a row of dark points on the veins represents the outer 

 line; a small white speck at the origin of vein 3; a row of terminal black 

 dots between the veins; a gray shade along costa and from median vein 

 outward, these shades darker than the rest of the wing also in suffused 

 specimens. Hind wing pale gray. Expanse, 27 to 32 mm. 



Four males, three females, Hampton, New Hampshire, 

 August 1, 1911 (S. A. Shaw). 



Type: No. 15098, U. S. National Museum. 



A robust species like inquinata Guene"e, but still larger and 

 longer- winged. The veins are dark-lined as in dejecta Grote. 



Paracretonia, new genus. 



Falls in the Erastriinse. Fore wing with vein 9 from 10 

 anastomosing with 8 to form the areole; frons with rounded 

 prominence, roughened, with a plate below; fore tibise un- 

 armed; abdomen without crests; hind wing with vein 5 well- 

 developed from well below middle of discocellulars; eyes large, 

 round; palpi upturned. 



Paracretonia xithon, new species. 



Fore wing light gray, with an almost whitish ground, shaded with black- 

 ish gray; a broad dark oblique inner band from costa to claviform; an ocher- 

 ous elongate mark below; spots white-filled, orbicular round with black 

 dot and ring, reniform constricted, with black spot in lower half, claviform 

 rather large; an oblique white shade before apex; outer line oblique, double, 

 blackish, followed by an ocherous band in which gray rays project along 

 the veins; a marginal row of dark dots. Hind wing fuscous with white 

 fringe. Expanse 21-22 mm. 



Three specimens, La Puerta Valley (near San Diego), Cali- 

 fornia (G. H. Field). 



Type: No. 15112, U. S. National Museum. 



This may. prove to be the same as Phyllophila aleptivoides 

 Barnes and McDunnough (Can. Ent., XLIV, 217, 1912). 



Sacadodes, new genus 



Antennae bipectinate, the branches moderate in the male, short in the 

 female, ciliate. Palpi porrect or oblique, the second joint long, thick; 

 third short, nearly globose in the male, long and slender in the female. 



