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with a smoky outer border, through which there is a more or 

 less obvious yellowish shade line : in the female the wings are uniformly 

 smoky, with somewhat contrasting yellowish fringes. Beneath, primaries 

 smoky brown, paler outwardly, more or less powdery, with a more or less 

 obvious smoky outer line : secondaries pale dirty yellowish, powdered 

 along the costa, with an outer extra-median smoky shade line that may 

 cross the costal region only and rarely attains the inner margin. 



Expands. — i. 20-1.36 inches = 30-34 mm. 



Habitat. — Volga, South Dakota. 



Four males and one female, in fair condition. Some time before his 

 death the late Judge P. C. Truman sent me several boxes of Noctuids, 

 supposedly duplicates, intended to give me an idea of the general char- 

 acter of his local fauna. The specimens were unmounted and were 

 picked over from time to time to get such species as were being studied. 

 Recently the entire material has been spread, and I find in it the species 

 here described, obviously resembling the rtibifera series of Noctiia, but 

 differing from all in the robust build, subequal stumpy primaries and 

 yellowish secondaries, which, in the male, have a broad outer dark shade, 

 in which is a yellowish band. The male antennte are distinctly ciliated, 

 and the genitalia are unique in having at the lower margin of the harpes a 

 prominent tooth-like process. The tip is gradual, somewhat pointed, and 

 has a dense brush of spinules. The clasper is very stout, short, curved, 

 abruptly drawn into a slender pointed tip. The single median lines, 

 and especially the crenulate t. p. line, are characteristic, while the .first 

 impression gained by the wing form is that of a Taeniocampa belongmg 

 to the rufula series. 



It is more than probable that this species will be found in the col- 

 lections of those who have made exchanges with Judge Truman, and it is 

 almost certain to be represented in the collection left by him. 



Feltia obliqua, n. sp. — Ground colour ranges from dark luteous brown 

 to smoky or even blackish brown. Head rusty brown, with a more or 

 less obvious dusky line across the front. Collar inferiorly dark brown, 

 limited above by a black line ; upper half pale brown, based by a whitish 

 line that serves to relieve the black central line which it borders. 

 Thoracic disk paler than primaries, with a grayish tinge. Primaries very 

 evenly coloured, except that the upper half of wing to the t. p. line is 

 somewhat darker, the markings neatly written and not contrasting. Basal 

 line geminate, black, marked over costal area only, very close to the root 



