THE CANADIAN ENTOMOLOGIST. 225 



NEW SPECIES OE NOCTUID.E FOR 1906. 



No. 2.* 



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



Cyat/iissa quadrate, n. sp, — Ground colour creamy-wliite, more or 

 less washed with luteous, the miculation black, contrasting. In type it is 

 like that of percara, and the lines are identical in course ; there is the 

 same basal dash, and the quadrate pale blotch on the costa in median 

 space is very similar. But there is no green shading whatever in the wing, 

 the black markings are more intense, more contrasting, usually broader, 

 and, in the median space, they extend below the costal pale area, shading 

 into smoky-brown at about the middle of the wing. There is also a costal 

 black patch just beyond the t. p. line, which is not present in the older 

 species. The secondaries have the dark median band and dusky outer 

 border well defined, whereas in percara these are entirely absent or only 

 indicated. Beneath, the body is deep sooty-black, with the legs contrast- 

 ingly white-marked. 



Size as in percara. 



Habitat.— ^2i.n Bernardino Ranch, Cochise Co., Arizona; 3,750 feet; 

 in August. E. H. Snow. 



One male and two females in good condition. This species bears 

 almost the same relation io percara that ochracea does \o pallida, and the 

 replacement of the green by luteous will serve to distinguish them, as well 

 as the heavier and more extensive black markings. There is no question 

 of discoloration of green, such as is sometimes seen vn percara. 



Cyathissa ochracea, n. sp. — White with a slight creamy tinge. Disc 

 of thorax with ochraceous scales in some specimens. Primaries, basal 

 space white, shaded with ochreous along the inner margin, two black dots 

 on costa. The median space is defined by broken, irregular, narrow black 

 lines, is ochraceous, fading out to white on the inner margin, and with a 

 large quadrate white blotch on costa ; this with sharply-defined black- 

 edged margins. Beyond the t. p. line on the inner margin is a large 

 blackish blotch, which does not quite reach the inner angle. Elsewhere 

 the space beyond t. p. line is rather irregularly shaded with ochreous. 

 Secondaries white, tending to a dusky shading toward anal angle. Beneath 

 white ; primaries with maculation of upper side faintly reproduced ; 

 secondaries with a narrow extra-median line and a small discal spot. 



*No. I is in the Journal of the N. Y. Ent. Soc. for March, 1906, 

 July, 1906 



