68 THE CANADIAN ENTOMOLOGIST. 



Snow from Southern Kansas. In this genus the body is linear and slight, 

 tibia; unarmed, ocelli small, male antennae brush-like with distinct joints, 

 thorax with a tuft behind, abdomen untufted, linear. Fore wings 12-veined 

 with accessory cell, from the outer apex of which spring veins 7 and 8 ; 

 9 out of 8, a long furcation to costa. Hind wings 7-veined ; median vein 

 3-branched ; 8 out of 7 not far from the base. Primaries with oblique 

 outer margin and produced apices. Front with a clypeal plate. Labial 

 palpi narrow, linear, improminent ; legs slender, tibia; unarmed. 



Acopa pcrpallida, n. s. 



£ £ . Larger than carina, with white secondaries. Primaries white, 

 shaded with ochrey and with narrow fuscous lines. Basal line indicated ; 

 anterior line upright, forming two large teeth ; outer line denticulate, out- 

 wardly produced opposite the cell ; orbicular obsolete, reniform concolor- 

 ' ous, obscured by a dark shade. Subterminal shade line fuscous, even, 

 continued to vein 7 from internal angle, above which it appears as an 

 inwardly oblique shade from costa to vein 7. A terminal interrupted 

 line ; fringes white. Hind wings white, very slightly soiled, with discal 

 mark and in distinct line ; fringes white. Beneath yellowish white, shaded 

 with fuscous on primaries; fringes white. Body whitish. Expanse 28 mil. 



The median lines on primaries are further apart than in carina. This 

 species was sent me by Prof. Snow under the number 504. 



Heliothis nucha I is, n. s. 



£ . AVings ample ; body comparatively slight. Fyes naked. All the 

 tibiae armed ; fore tibiae with an inner terminal spine and an outer one 

 of same size, the latter followed by two smaller spinules. Fore wings 

 with pale whitish ochrey ground, much shaded with fuscous. All three 

 stigmata present, very large, sub-equal, and dark. The reniform has an 

 internal annulus and a central pale streak, likewise the smaller rounded 

 orbicular ; the broad claviform is cut by the narrow submedian shade. 

 Posterior line narrow, fuscous, angulated on subcostal vein ; roundedly 

 produced opposite cell, interrupted by the pale marked veins. The ter- 

 minal fuscous field is cut by the whitish subterminal shade ; fringes dark. 

 Hind wings whitish ochreous, with thick discal mark, central discally 

 angulated line and with a series of irregular pale interspaceal blotches 

 cutting the fuscous terminal shading of the wing ; fringes white, interlined 

 at base. Beneath whitish with faint ochrey tinge. Discal marks large, 



