THE CANADIAN ENTOMOLOGIST. 21 7 



Cleophana antipoda. 



This species has the discal marks evident. It is allied to ealepis, but 

 decidedly distinct, having more of the appearance of a Cucullia. Fore 

 legs with a tibial claw. Collar with a mesial projection. Fore wings 

 whitish gray with all the lines broken into blackish streaks and points. 

 Hind wings pellucid white with soiled edges and veins. Abdomen with 

 reduced tufts on basal segments. Colorado, Mr. Neumoegen. This 

 species, which looks like Cucullia asteroides, but without the brown tint- 

 ings, expands nearly 40 mil., and is, I am informed, the Cucullia antipoda 

 of Mr. Strecker. 



Mr. Strecker's generic determinations are based throughout on super- 

 ficial resemblances. No structural details are given except in the case of 

 a genus which he bases on a "very large number" of costal nervules. 

 As the number of these nervules is invariable, never being more than 

 three subcostal and three costal, the value of such an observation is 

 apparent. Not content with establishing species and genera without ever 

 having any experience with structure, Mr. Strecker also makes a dispro- 

 portionate number of synonyms, not only of small or inconspicuous 

 species, but large and easily known ones, such as Catocala illecta and 

 Smerinthus occidentalis. Add to this that his publications have been 

 proven to be incorrectly dated, and enough has been shown to justify 

 their neglect at the hands of all right thinking students in the country. 

 In the Noctuidffi I adopt his names where I can find them, but his 

 descriptions are too indefinite to be used where they are not accompanied 

 by figures. 



Nolaphana labecula, n. s. 



This species, of which I have only lemales from Wisconsin and New 

 York, is quickly to be separated from Zelleri and malana by the round 

 orbicular being yellowish white, and the disc beyond it and the place of 

 the reniform are shaded with this same color. The most prominent line 

 is the median shade, which crosses the wing obliquely over the yellowish 

 white shading on the cell and there joins a black streak over vein 5 at 

 base, lined above with pale. The anterior line is roundedly exserted 

 superiorly and not indented here as in its allies. The posterior line is 

 denticulate superiorly where it is even in Zelleri, but this line is otherwise 

 much as in Zelleri, and not with the prominent indentations of malana. 

 In color the new species is more bluish gray, lighter, not so fuscous tinted 



