THE CANADIA.N ENTOMOLOGIST. 201 



NEW SPECIES OF N0CTUID.4i FOR 1905.— No. 2. 



BY JOHN B. SMITH, SC. D., NEW BRUNSWICK, N. J. 



Euxoa vestitura, n. sp. — Ground colour dull smoky-brown, varying 

 a little to reddish-brown in one direction and luteous in another. Head 

 and thorax concolorous. Vestiture hairy rather than scaly, neither ihe 

 collar nor the patagia well defined. Primaries with the usual maculation 

 at least traceable and often distinct, never contrasting, the lines ranging 

 from smoky to black. Basal line geminate, always marked on costa 

 and often complete. T. p. line geminate, the inner portion less defined, 

 more even and sometimes obscure : included space broad, concolorous or 

 a little paler than ground : outer part of line usually distinct, often broken 

 on the veins, more or less out-curved in the interspaces, as a whole the 

 line nearly upright. T. p. line geminate, the inner portion crenulate, outer 

 narrow, even and sometimes wanting. As a whole the line makes a very 

 even curve over the cell and is then parallel with the outer margin. S. t. 

 line marked by a slightly darker preceding shade in the s. t. space, by a 

 vague difference in shade between s. t. and terminal space, or altogether 

 wanting. There may be a series of terminal lunules, a narrow terminal 

 line or no marking at all. Fringes concolorous. There is usually a rather 

 well marked median shade, somewhat diffuse, outwardly bent from the 

 middle of costa to the end of the median vein, then parallel with the t. p. 

 line to the inner margin. Claviform wanting. Orbicular wanting alto- 

 gether, in most specimens, indicated in others by a few blackish scales. 

 Reniform obscure, marked by two diffuse smoky blotches, indicating the 

 lateral margins, and of these the inner may be absorbed in the median 

 shade. Secondaries dull, smoky, outwardly darker, somewhat yellowish 

 and lighter at base ; fringes paler. 



Expands. — i. 26-1. 46 inches = 31-36 mm. Habitat. — St. John, New 

 Brunswick, August 9-19. 



Eleven males and two females, most of them in at least fair condition. 

 These specimens were taken in 1899 or 1900 and have been in my collec- 

 tion for years, somewhat doubtfully associated with bruimeigera, of which 

 r have never had good material from the type locality. Renewed study of 

 such material as I have and of Hampson's description from the type has 

 convinced me tl^at I have a good species with characters as above stated. 

 The range of variation is from a type in which all the markings are distinct 

 to a form in which they are barely traceable and in part altogether obliter- 

 ated. My series covers all intermediate forms. I regret that the labels 

 do not have the name of the collector to whose liberality I owe the 

 specimens. 



June, 1505, 



