THE CANADIAN ENTOMOLOGIST. Q5 



NEW NOCTUID^ FOR 1905— NO. i. 



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



MiNOFALA, n. gen. 

 Head of moderate size, not retracted ; eyes round, hardly prominent, 

 yet distinct and of good size ; front protuberant inferiorly, with a 

 roughened depression guarded by a sharp rim ; palpi small, slender, not 

 attaining the end of the protuberance ; tongue weak, yet of moderate 

 leligth and, perhaps, functional ; antenna in the male with the joints a 

 little marked, ciliate rather than bristle tufted. Thorax oval, convex, 

 collar and patagia distinct but not uplifted ; vestiture scaly ; no tufts ; 

 legs moderate, of normal proportions, without spines, spurs or other 

 armature save the usual spurs of tibia). Abdomen cylindric ; well exceed- 

 ing the secondaries ; untufted. Primaries elongate triangular, apex well 

 drawn out, though not acute, outer margin oblique ; venation apparently 

 normal. Secondaries trigonate, proportionate. 



MiNOFALA INSTANS, n. Sp. 



Ground colour a dirty, pale luteous, overlaid by smoky scales and 

 relieved by white scales. Head and thorax of the ground colour, lightly 

 irrorate with black scales. Primaries with all the maculation obvious ; a 

 blackish, diffuse shade from the middle of t. a. line to outer margin above 

 the middle, forms the salient feature of the wing. Basal half line marked 

 by a geminate dusky spot on costa and by dusky and white scales below 

 that point. T. a. line geminate, much broken, defining lines dusky, 

 included space whitish, very frregular and with large angles. T. p. line 

 geminate, much broken, defining lines blackish, slender, included space 

 more or less white, well removed outwardly, abruptly bent from costa over 

 cell and obliquely incurved below. S. t. line very close to margin, white, 

 irregular, two little teeth on veins 3 and 4 reaching the outer margin. 

 The apex is pale and a dusky shade precedes the line ; below is a pale 

 shade from reniform above a pair of sagittate spots which continue the 

 dark median shading and beyond which the terminal space is also dark. 

 There is a broken black terminal line. The fringes are long, luteous-gray, 

 cut with whitish. There is an obscure median shade line, obvious only 

 toward inner margin. The claviform is indicated by brown scales. 

 Orbicular small, round or nearly so, whitish, edged with black scales. The 



February, 1905. 



