1864.] 527 



series of terminal blackish dots between the veins, fringes dark. Pos- 

 terior wings uniform blackish cinereous, hardly darker shaded along 

 external margin, immaculate ; fringes paler with a blackish central line. 

 Head and prothorax rather bright ochraceous; tegulae and thorax con- 

 colorous with anterior wings; abdomen cinereous above, with reddish 

 anal tuft and shaded with the same color beneath. Under surface of 

 anterior wings reddish along the costa and external margin, rest of the 

 wing blackish cinereous, with a median transverse blackish line nearly 

 straight and quite distinct; under surface of posterior wings irrorate 

 with black scales, shaded with reddish, especially on the costa, and 

 with a median transverse distinct black line and discal spot. Exp. % . 

 1.40 inch. 



Habitat.— Middle States. (Coll. Ent. Soc. Phil.) 



On examining the ornamentation of this species it is seen to be very 

 similar to that of H. ctipida, while the coloration is very diiferent. It 

 is a slightly larger and more robust species, the reniform spot is rela- 

 tively larger and nearly concolorous with the orbicular, while the ordi- 

 nary spots are dissimilarly colored in JV. i-upida. 



Noctua vittifrons, nov. sjj. (Plate 5, fig. 6. 9 ■) 



Anterior wings blackish, ordinary lines interrupted, pale; a broad 

 costal dull cream-colored band; ordinary spots sub-obsolete. Trans- 

 verse anterior line undulate, indistinct; orbicular spot wanting, reniform 

 irregular, dark cream color; transverse posterior line very slightly bent 

 at the disc, followed by a series of similarly colored spots on the veins, 

 which latter are darker shaded in the terminal space; sub-terminal line 

 undulate, continued', broadly marked at costa ; fringes somewhat paler 

 than the wing. Under surface whitish, with a blackish sub-terminal 

 shade, broadest at co>sta. Posterior wings whitish, immaculate, with 

 pale brownisli scales along the veins ; fringes whitish. Under surface 

 whitish, sprinkled with pale brownish along the costa and at costal 

 angle. Collar concolorous with the costal band of anterior wings, but 

 with a deeper tint at the center; head blackish, paler on the front; 

 palpi blackish, terminal joint pale; thorax and tegulae blackish; abdo- 

 men cinereous above, paler underneath ; legs cinereous, tarsi paler. 

 Exp. 9 . 1.35 inch. 



/7a6iVa<.— Colorado Ter., Mr. J. Ridings. (Coll. Ent. Soc. Phil.) 



