94 ANNALS NEW YORK ACADEMY OF SCIENCES 



taken by Mr. Carl SchsefTer. The species is quite characteristic, and I am 

 sure that I have seen it in another collection. 



Acronycta othello nov. sp. 



Ground-color whitish ash-gray with sooty black shades and markings. Head, 

 vertex black except at sides. Collar mostly black or sooty. Disk of thorax and 

 margins of patagia black or sooty. Abdomen smoky gray above, whitish below; 

 ba.sal tuftings black or sooty; edges of segments narrowly white. Primaries with a 

 broad basal space rather evenly washed ^vith thin blackish over a bluish-gray base. 

 T.a. line geminate, black, moderately outcurved and oblique, and ^ith outcurves 

 iu the interspaces. T.p. line geminate, black; outer line most distinct, denticulate, 

 with well-marked outward teeth on the veins; as a whole, well curved over cell and 

 deeply drawn in below. There is no obvious s.t. line. The outer part of the median 

 space above median vein is filled with blackish, and below this vein the entire space 

 is sooty black, but not contrasting or intense. The outer part of the \\ing is gray, the 

 veins blackish-lined, and a sooty black streak from t.p. line to hind angle just below 

 vein 2. The fringes are cut with sooty brown on the interspaces. Orbicular a 

 small black circle which may be obscured by a shading from the t.a. line. Reni- 

 form moderate or small, lunate, incomplete, obscured by the median shade. Second- 

 aries in the male white, in the female washed with smoky gray. Beneath, whitish, 

 powdery, the primaries darker (darker in the female than in the male) ; secondaries 

 with a small, blackish discal spot. Legs smokj', annulate, with white at the joints. 



Expands 1.75 in. = 44 mm. 



Habitat: San Diego, Cal., Sept. 15. 



One male and one female, in good condition; from Mr. Frank A. 

 Merrick. The species is allied to perdita, but is obviously distinct by the 

 absence of basal streaks and by the soft gray and black shadings. 



Acronycta lepetita nov. sp. 



Ground-color pale bluish gray with an olivaceous shading. Palpi black at sides, 

 a black dot at base of antennae. Primaries with black basal streak extending to the 

 t.a. line; a slight spur inferiorly at about the middle, a longer narrow branch on the 

 upper edge, which reaches the t.a. line. A slender black streak crosses the t.p. 

 line in the sub-median interspace, and extends to the outer margin. The basal line 

 is indicated by an olivaceous costal spot. T.a. line geminate, olivaceous gray, very 

 oblique, so as to reach the inner margin almost at middle. T.p. line geminate, 

 outer line black, included space whiter than ground, somewhat squarely exserted 

 over the cell and only moderately incurved below. S.t. space beyond the t.p. line 

 is more olivaceous shaded, and this is best marked on the cost a and over the black 

 streak above anal angle. A series of terminal black points on the %eins. Median 

 shade ob\nous on costa, oblique over the reniform, which it darkens, and then lost. 

 Orbicular oval, oblique, concolorous, narrowly outlined bj' black scales. It may or 

 may not touch the reniform; but, when it does, the junction forms an obvious, 

 curved black mark. Reniform large, broadly lunate, somewhat irregular, a little 



