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NEW SPECIES OF NOCTUID.^ FOR 1905.— No. 2. 



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



(Continued from page 204). 

 lifamestra ascuia, n. sp. — Ground colour very pale ashen gray, with 

 a somewhat luteous tinge more or less obvious in most specimens ; best 

 marked in the male, most frequently wanting in the female. The ordinary 

 lines are all broken and obscured by the shading, yet all distinctly trace- 

 able, geminate, one part of the line blackish, the other smoky and always 

 partly incomplete. Basal line usually marked by a geminate spot on 

 costa. There is a short black basal streak, best marked and a little curved 

 in the female, and above it the basal space tends to be a little paler, T. 

 a. line well removed from base, with a rather even outcurve, just a little 

 drawn in on the veins. T. p. line outcurved over the cell, very obscurely 

 marked in that part of its course, best marked on the incurve in the 

 submedian interspace, where the included space is paler and the defining 

 lines are well marked. A pale shading extends from that point to the 

 hind angle, and another from the end of the cell to the apex ; the latter 

 is almost always present ; the former is sometimes poorly marked. S. t. 

 line irregular pale, sometimes defined by preceding black marks, some- 

 times only by the darker terminal space ; always with a blackish shade 

 above the hind angle, usually emphasized by white scales at this point. 

 There is a series of blackish terminal lunules, a pale line at the base of the 

 fringes, a blackish interline and an alternation of light and dark gray at 

 the edge of the wing. The orbicular is long, narrow, very oblique, usually 

 well defined, with blackish outer border and a white annulus. The 

 reniform is of good size, rather narrow, oblong, with the angles rounded, 

 though sometimes more kidney-shaped, usually well defined, though the 

 defining lines are narrow and not contrasting ; it may be concolorous, 

 dark filled or of the palest gray in the wing, and in the male often has a 

 slight ocherous tinge. Claviform usually small, inconspicuous, pointed, 

 defined by blackish scales, sometimes extending across the median space, 

 but never prominent. Secondaries in the male white, the veins sometimes 

 marked with smoky near the margin ; in the female a little smoky 

 throughout, becoming dusky outwardly. Beneath, more or less powdery, 

 primaries with disc darker ; sometimes immaculate, sometimes with a 

 well-defined blackish outer line, more rarely with a discal spot on all 



wings. 



Expands: 1-1.20 inches = 25-30 mm. Habitat : Stockton, Utah, in 

 September; Mr. Thomas Sjialding. 



July, 1905. 



