76 Till] CANADIAN ENTOMOLOGIST. 



SOME NEW SPECIES OF NOCTUIILE. 



BV G. II. FRENCH, CARBONDALE, ILL. 



Dicopis rifis, >i. s. 



Imago — Length .50 of an inch. Expanse of wings 1.35 inches. Head, 

 prothorax and thorax gray, the second tipped a little with light and con- 

 taining a fine dark line. Abdomen yellowish gray. Color of primaries 

 below a line running from the outside of the basal line on the costa to 

 near the hind angle, light gray ; above this line dark gray, with a slight 

 smoky tinge. The stigmata, a space along the costa in front of the stig- 

 mata, the apical space and the subterminal space one-third of the distance 

 from costa to hind margin, the same light gray as the hind or inner part 

 of wing, mottled a little with smoky spots. Basal line obsolete except on 

 the costa. T. a. line black, double, the inner part very faint, strongly 

 but regularly arcuated, the end of claviform connected with it outwardly ; 

 from this a brown dash runs to the t. p. line. Transverse shade scarcely 

 visible. T. p. line faint, nearly parallel with the outer margin. Subter- 

 minal line scarcely distinguishable save by the dark brown in the terminal 

 space. The brown is in the form of shaded points in the middle that run 

 to the outer margin. Outer margin light gray. Fringe dark gray inter- 

 rupted with white at the ends of the veins. Secondaries grayish white 

 with a blackish outer border. 



Latva — Length when fully grown 1.25 inches. Ground color green, 

 marked as follows with greenish white : very faint dorsal line bordered 

 each side with a darker shade of green, subdorsal line distinct, stigmatal 

 faint, neither of these bordered with darker green. Besides these lines, 

 the body is irregularly mottled with small spots of the same greenish 

 white color. Head a little smaller than the other segments, of a nearly 

 uniform green. 



The chrysalis is subterranean ; the anal end tipped with four bristles, 

 two rather stout, the other two about half as long as the first two and 

 more slender. The larva was found on a grape vine, upon the leaves of 

 which it fed while in confinement. It is single brooded, pupating the 

 last of June and producing the imago in the following March. 



Described from one $ . 



Orthosia signata, n. s. 



Length .70 of an inch. Expanse of wings 1.50 inches. Color of 

 head, prothorax and thorax rich cinnamon brown ; the abdomen the same 



