SMITH, NEW NOCTUIDM 119 



seeming at first a continuation of the line. The s.t. Une is marked by this obhque 

 shade near costa, but below only by the difference between the luteous terminal 

 area (which is the palest portion of the wing) and the slightly darker, very narrow 

 s.t. space. A golden brown, continuous, even, terminal line at the base of the yellow- 

 ish Drown fringes. The ordinary spots are large, concolorous. Orbicular round 

 or nearly so, inconspicuously ringed with darker brown. Reniform broad, a little 

 constricted, incompletely defined in brown. Secondaries yellow with a golden 

 luster, smoky toward base within a dusky extra-median line. A faint dusky lunule 

 and a distinct brown line at base of fringes. Beneath, golden yellowish, with a dusky 

 median shade line on both wings. 



Expands 1.12-1.35 in. =: 28-34 mm. 



Habitat: Palmerly, Cochise County, Arizona, August. 



Two male and two female examples, all in good condition; from the 

 collection of the Brooklyn Institute. I cannot identify this with any of 

 the described species from Central America, and it is quite different from 

 those of our own species thus far described. The frontal protuberance is 

 umbilicate, the depression roughened. 



Schinia espea nov. sp. 



Head and thorax creamy ^-ith a reddish tinge; abdomen whitish. Primaries 

 very pale creamy with a greenish tint, the shading olivaceoas. Basal area whitish 

 to the t.a. line, which is very oblique inwardly and a little arquate, extending from 

 beyond basal third of costa to within basal third of inner margin. The line is out- 

 wardly shaded with olivaceous, which is darkest and broadest inferiorly, so as to 

 slightly obscure the entire median space, the costal area being lightest, and fading 

 out to the t.p. line. T.p. line from costa just within apex inwardly oblique, evenly 

 bi-sinuate, to the outer third of inner margin. S.t. space very narrow, especially 

 on costal margin, olivaceous, marking, by its contrast with the pale terminal space, 

 an even but not at all defined s.t. line just about parallel to the outer margin. 

 Fringes olivaceous. Secondaries white, sub-transparent, with a moderate blackish 

 outer border. Beneath, white; primaries with smoky clouds over the costal area 

 and s.t. space. 



Expands .96 in. = 24 mm. 



Habitat: INIiaco, Florida, September. 



One rather poor female out of a purchased lot, collector unknown. 

 The species is an ally of hiundulata on the characters used by Hampson; 

 but the course of the median lines is utterly unlike that of any other species 

 known to me. 



Pseudacontia cansa nov. sp. 



Head and thorax a mottling of white and glossy gray scales, more white on the 

 head than on thorax, and more white in the male than in the female. Abdomen 

 gray, segments narrovsly white-ringed. Primaries smooth glossy gray, the median 



