526 [Decembkr 



disc. Sub-terminal space of an even dull brownish color; sub-terminal 

 line broadly marked with blackish at costa, forming slightly darker 

 points on the veins. Terminal space concolorous with medinn and 

 basal spaces; fringes blackish. Posterior wings uniformly blackish 

 cinereous, hardly darker shaded along external margin, silky, immacu- 

 late ; fringes paler, with a central darker line. Under surface of an- 

 terior wings reddish along the costa, apex and fringes, rest of the wing 

 blackish cinereous, with a median blackish transverse line indistinct 

 except at costa ; under surface of posterior pair paler than the upper 

 surface, shaded with reddish along the costa, irrorate with black scales, 

 and with a faint blackish transverse band and discal spot. Head, 

 prothorax and thorax reddish ferruginous, concolorous with anterior 

 wings, palpi darker laterally. Abdomen flattened, pale cinereous, red- 

 dish along the sides and at the anus. Exp. % 1.3U inch. 

 Rab if at. —mdd\e States. (Coll. Ent. Soc. Phil.) 



This would aprear to resemble Graphiphora e.ipansa and G. Jucun- 

 da of Mr. Walker by the description of these latter in the British Mu- 

 seum Lists, but I cannot reconcile the diagnoses with the present spe- 

 cies. 



Noctua alternata, nov. sp. (Plate 5, fig. 8. 9-) 



Anterior wings pale dull ochraceous, .slightly olivaceous, sub-termi- 

 nal space brownish, with a purplish lustre, terminal space very pale 

 ochraceous, ordinary lines geminate, distinct, brownish. ]3asal, sub- 

 basal and median spaces, uniform dull dark ochraceous, slightly paler 

 at extreme base and toward the costa, median space partially shaded 

 with a purplish lustre. Basal half-line geminate, distinct, brownish ; 

 transverse anterior oblique, geminate, with a simple sub-costal denta- 

 tion, thence undulate to internal margin. Ordinary spots very distinct, 

 surrounded by paler annuli, with brownish centers, the reniform slightly 

 shaded with ferruginous; transverse posterior line geminate, interrupted, 

 nearly straight, but little arcuated at the disc, followed by minute black 

 dots on the veins, which latter are paler in the sub-terminal space. 

 Sub-terminal space dark brownish, with a purplish luster, distinctly re- 

 lieved from the terminal space by the sub-terminal darker marginal 

 line, which is lo.st inwardly, owing to the dark color of the sub-terminal 

 space. Terminal space paler than the median and basal spaces, with a 



