SMITH, NEW NOCTUID^ 121 



Habitat: Sabine Parish, La. (G. Coverdale). 



A single male has been in my collection a long time awaiting a mate, 

 and is now described because there seems no present hope of more material 

 from the same region. It was a papered example, and the body is trans- 

 versely flattened out of all shape; but the primaries are perfect and the 

 maculation is clean and well defined. It is larger than crustaria with a 

 similar t}^e of maculation; but in this the pale ground predominates, and 

 the dusky s.t. space and more or less well-defined s.t. line are eliminated 

 altogether. The anterior legs are w^anting in the type, and the generic 

 reference is therefore made upon the basis of the general resemblance to 

 crustaria. 



Annaphila miona nov. sp. 



Head and thorax bronze-brown with black and metallic-blue scales intermingled, 

 forming no obvious ornamentation. Abdomen deep orange with narrow black 

 dorsum, the edges of the segments narrowly orange. Primaries brown, mottled 

 with black and metallic blue scales, the latter most obvious beyond the reniform 

 and along the upper course of the s.t. line. Basal Une traceable by black scales. T.a. 

 line geminate, black, more or less broken, included space a little paler than ground, 

 outwardly oblique and with a distinct outward tooth in the sub-median interspace. 

 Median line black, quite obvious, outwardly oblique and a little outcurved. T.p. 

 hne, consisting of a very even brown band, very regularly bent over the cell, and an 

 inner, broken, very irregular blackish line forming the outer border of the median 

 space, and this is inwardly toothed on vein 2. The outer part of the wing is black 

 at apex, shading to brown at anal angle; and through the black portion the s.t. 

 line is very irregularly marked out by brilliant blue scales: below the middle the line 

 becomes more even* and pale. Fringes brown with a black interline, beyond which 

 they are checkered with black. Orbicular not obvious in the specimens. Reniform 

 large, irregularly lunate, pale brown, ringed with white, with a whitish patch above 

 it to costa, and outwardly three lobe-like extensions of the t.p. line filled with blue 

 scales. Secondaries deep orange with a broad, even, black margin and a very faint 

 basal line of blackish scales. No discal spot. Beneath, orange; primaries with a 

 broad outer border, narrowing toward the angle, interrupted by a series of orange 

 spots, and a broad median band from inner margin to center, where it breaks, and 

 sends spurs toward costa and outer margin; secondaries with a broad black outer 

 band in which a series of orange spots is traceable. 



Expands .80 in. = 20 mm. 



Habitat: Plumas County, California, June. 



Two females, in good condition save for lack of antennae. At first sight 

 the orange of secondaries seems unbroken, except for the broad, solid, 

 black outer band, and this forms a characteristic of the species. The faint 

 blackish basal line becomes obvious enough when attention is drawn to it; 

 but there is no black shading at the extreme base of the wing. 



