SMITH, NEW NOCTUID^ 117 



Orthosia dusca no v. sp. 



Has the general appearance of euroa, but is smaller, darker, with more diffuse 

 maculation and with shorter, broader primaries. I have a series of ten eastern 

 euroa ranging in locality from New York to Kittery Point, Me., and a series of over 

 forty specimens from various points in Manitoba and British Columbia, and the 

 latter are uniformly different in the points just mentioned. In the females the 

 difference is much more marked, as a rule, than in the males; for in the female euroa 

 the primaries are usually distinctly rectangular or even a little pointed at tip, the 

 median shade is distinct and well defined, and all the maculation is neatly written: 

 in dusca, on the other hand, the primaries are quite as stumpy in the female as in 

 the male, the median shade is diffuse, often indistinct, and usually all the markings 

 are obscure and mottled. 



Expands 1.-1.12 in. = 25-28 mm. 



Habitat: Cartwright, Miniota and Winnipeg, Manitoba, August and 

 September; Kaslo, B.C. 



Cucullia phila no v. sp. 



Head, thorax and primaries bluish gray. Head with two obscure blackish 

 transverse lines. Thorax A\ath disk brownish, the patagia obscurely sub-margined 

 with brown or blackish. Primaries tending to brownish along the costal region, 

 a distinct rusty shade in the cell where the ordinary spots are vaguely indicated. 

 A distinct wliite, diffuse blotch in the sub-median interspace before the curved 

 black mark representing the t.p. line. T.a. line traceable, single, slender, black, 

 with long outward teeth, that in the sub- median interspace reaching almost to the 

 middle of the wing. T.p. line vaguely indicated, except in the sub-median inter- 

 space, where it forms a black incurve, and over vein 1, where it is bent outwardly 

 and is accompanied by a white band. An obscure black basal streak into the s.m. 

 tooth of t.a. line. An oblique black streak extends from the curve of the t.p. line 

 to the margin just below vein 2. The veins are black-marked, and beyond them 

 the brown fringes are cut with gray. There is a narrow, black, broken terminal 

 line. Secondaries white to the middle, then darkening gradually to a deep smoky 

 brown outer border, the fringes white. Beneath, primaries glossy smoky brown; 

 secondaries as above, but the dusky outer border is narrower. Abdomen grayish 

 white, the dorsal tuftings brown. 



Expands 1.50-1.60 in. = 37-40 mm. 



Habitat: Philadelphia, Pa.; Maryland. 



Tw^o males and two females. The two males and one female are from 

 Mr. Frederick Weigand of Philadelphia, and are bred specimens. The 

 Maryland example is old, and has been left unnamed for years, because I 

 had no record of its source, and I doubted a new eastern species so rare that 

 only one example should occur in collections. It is more sordid in appear- 

 ance than the bred examples, and has a brownish shading throughout the 

 primaries, which obscures the white blotch in the median space. 



