Ca«<it(i<ii{ mntomaloribt. 



Vol. XXXVI. 



LONDON, JUNE, 1904. 



No. 6 



NEW NOCTUID.^ FOR 1904.— I. 



BY JOHN B. SMITH, SC.D. 



Nodua dislocata. n. sp. — Ground colour bluish, ash-gray, marked 

 and more or less suffused with reddish. Head gray, tending to reddish 

 on the vertex ; palpi deep brown at the sides. Thorax mouse to fawn 

 gray or reddish, immaculate. Primaries in a general way are gray to the 

 middle of the wing and reddish beyond ; but they may be an even 

 reddish-gray throughout. All the normal maculation is present, but not 

 contrasting. Basal line geminate ; but the outer line is obscure and only 

 the inner is dark brown and obvious. T. a. line narrow, brown, single, 

 preceded by a narrow paler line, just a little outcurved between the veins 

 and a little outcurved as a whole. T. p. line geminate, about parallel 

 with the outer margin ; the inner line narrow, brown, somewhat irregular, 

 tending to lunulate ; the outer is obscure, more even and sometimes 

 marked only by the difference between the gray-included space and the 

 reddish brown s. t. space. S. t. line pale and a little irregular, as a whole 

 nearly parallel with the outer margin. A series of small dark terminal 

 lunules which may be obliterated. Median shade line starts from about 

 the middle of costa, darkens the space between the ordinary spots, then 

 runs from the bottom of the reniform close to and parallel with the t. p. 

 line to the inner margin. As a rule the terminal space is grayish, or, at 

 least, lighter in colour than the s. t. space. Claviform just indicated and 

 very small. Orbicular large, gray, oval, open to the costa, usually defined 

 by gray scales. Reniform of good size, kidney-shaped, incompletely 

 outlined and not relieved. Secondaries yellowish at base, smoky toward 

 outer margin, where a dusky terminal line relieves the reddish fringes. 

 The discal lunule and outer line of the under side are usually indicated 

 above. Beneath, smoky with a reddish tinge, which is best marked at 

 the margins, secondaries more yellowish except along costa j both wings 

 with a dusky extra median line, secondaries with an obvious discal lunule. 



Expands i. 25-1.40 inches = 31-35 nim. 



Habitat. — Calgary, head of Pine Creek, in July, F. H. Wolley Dod. 



