THE CANADIAN ENTOMOLOGIST. 



NEW NOCTUIDS FOR 1903.— No. I. 



BY JOHN B. SMITH, SC. D., RUTGERS COLLEGE, N. J. 



Feralia Columbiana, n. sp. — Ground colour a bright emerald green, 

 the maculation black and white. Head with a black interantennal spot. 

 Collar with a black patch at its centre and at the base of each primary: 

 tipped with whitish. Behind the collar there is a black edging to the 

 disc and the loose basal tuftings are black marked. The edges of the 

 patagia are black along the disc and at the base of the wings. The 

 thorax itself is small and quadrate, the maculation just described forming 

 a black square in its centre. The abdomen is deep smoky brown, 

 yellowish or whitish at tip. Primaries with all the lines black, prominent, 

 yet fragmentary. Basal line single, accompanied by a few white scales, 

 becoming diffuse at the inner margin. T. a. line single, followed by a 

 white line, Outcurved as a whole and irregularly bent or curved outwardly 

 in the interspaces. It may or may not be connected with the basal line 

 by a black bar below the median vein. T. p. line very irregularly 

 dentate, broad, a little diffuse outwardly, preceded by a white line, the 

 tooth on vein 4 carrying the line nearest to the outer margin. The 

 median shade line is irregular, broken, almost upright, coming between 

 the ordinary spots and tending to become obsolete below the middle of 

 the wing. If complete the tendency is to a black powdering through the 

 outer half of the median space. There is no s, t. line. The space 

 between t. p. line and outer margin is even to a series of large black, 

 interspacial terminal spots which are preceded by white scales. Beyond 

 these spots the fringes are cut with blackish, the intermediate spaces 

 whitish. Orbicular round or oval, more or less completely outlined in 

 white and black. Reniform large, upright, a little constricted in the 

 middle, an inner, diffuse white line to the incomplete black defining line. 

 Claviform indicated by black scales and more or less white filled. The 

 secondaries may be entirely blackish with white fringes, or there may be 

 a whitish margin and base of indefinite extent. Beneath with a geminate 

 extra-median line on all wings ; secondaries with a large black discal 

 spot. The primaries have the terminal space green, but within that 

 everything is more or less black powdered to the base. A large black 

 patch on the costa between the outer line and the terminal space. The 

 breast is a mass of smoky blackish long fine hair. The legs are banded 

 and ringed with black, while and green. 



Expands 40 mm. = 1.60 inches. 



