SMITH, NEW NOCTUIDM 105 



single specimens only of each. In color they vary all the way from uniform 

 mouse-gray to uniform smoky black, with scarcely a trace of maculation. 

 The s.t. line is most frequently present and the tendency is to a pale terminal 

 space, the extreme of this type being a glossy black primary with a contrast- 

 ing gray terminal space. Then the black breaks up at base and the wing 

 becomes mottled in every possible intermediate form. In the pale examples, 

 the reniform tends to become relieved, especially in the males, and in the 

 extremes this is ringed with yellow, and filled with dark brown. The orbic- 

 ular is rarely present, but may be as conspicuous as the reniform, though in 

 only one case is it as well defined. 



I have no information as to the habits of the insect ; but it is quite obvious 

 that it may at times be much more common than the number of specimens 

 in collections indicates. 



Himella rectiflava nov. sp. 



Of the usual powdery luteous ground-color, the markings obscure, except for 

 the conspicuous yellow s.t. line and the scarcely less defined dusky median shade 

 line. Head and thorax with scattered black powderings only. Primaries, basal 

 line tracei^ble by the pale included shade and the slightly more dense powderings 

 at its borders. T.a. line geminate, smoky, included space not paler, with a very 

 regular and even outcurve from costa to inner margin. T.p. line geminate, tending 

 to become punctiform, the veins blackish beyond the line and so interrupted as to 

 give the appearance of geminate dark points; outwardly bent over cell, with the 

 angle on vein 7, below which the line runs evenly oblique to the inner margin. Me- 

 dian shade distinct, blackish, a little diffuse, outwardly bent from costa to bottom of 

 reniform, then evenly oblique to the inner margin. S.t. line conspicuous, yellowish, 

 preceded by a distinct, even, continuous, narrow brown shade, the following terminal 

 space darker than the rest of wing. A yellowish crenulated terminal line, from 

 the points of which pale lines extend across the fringes. No obvious claviform. 

 Orbicular round, with narrow smoky ring, of ground-color, but not powdery. Reni- 

 form upright, oblong with rounded corners, concolorous, defined by a narrow dusky 

 line within which there is a paler ring. Secondaries fuscous, paler at base, fringes 

 more luteous. Beneath, reddish gray, powdery. Both wings with an extra-median 

 line; secondaries also with a discal spot. 



Expands 1.10 in. = 27 mm. 



Habitat: Huachuca Mountains, Arizona, July 30. 



One male specimen, in good condition as to wings, somewhat defective 

 as to antennae, etc. The specimen was received in paper in a purchased 

 lot, and the collector is unknown. It belongs to Eriopyga of the Hampson 

 Catalogue, in the series in which the males have ciliated antennae and no 

 other conspicuous secondary sexual characters. 



