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Fota Armata, n. s. 



^ . Tortriciform. Fore wings gray, with a black shade along tlie cell, 

 connecting the median stigmata and preceding the orbicular. Stigmata 

 concolorous ; orbicular round, reniform upright. A long black shade on 

 median space over submedian fold. Lines obsolete. Fine black inter- 

 spaceal terminal streak. Hind wings pale, with white fringes ; abdomen 

 pale, yelk'w beneath at tip. Beneath pale without marks. Size of Hadena 

 CyUiidrica. Arizona. Coll. B. Neumoegen. 



This singular genus seems to me an aberrant Hadenoid form. 



Taniila Lucens Morr. 



On account of the flattened scales on head and thorax I would refer 

 this species and Meadi to Tamila. I am aware that the character is 

 slight but by separating tlie species into the genera Tamila^ Heliothis, 

 Melideptria^ Lygraiithoecia and Anthoecia, we get consonant assemblages 

 of species, agreeing in their different characters. In the Bulletin of the 

 * Buffalo Society Natural Sciences I threw them all in Heliothis, but there 

 seemed nothing gained by this and the identification of material was 

 thereby rendered much more difficult. 



Luxuriosa, n. var. 



.\ form of Lticeiis from Montana wanting the white admixture of 

 scales over fore wings : subterminal space dark lilac — purple; lines very 

 fine, white, contrasting ; yellow of hind wings deeper than type. 



Cticullia Mofitance, n. s. 



$ . Allied to Asteroides, but with the collar wholly pale, whitish, edged 

 with dusky. Tegulae also pale, ochrey white ; thoracic tuft dusky. Or- 

 namentation like Asteroides, but with the ground color pale ochrey ; the 

 black costal shades show the three pale ante-apical dots distinctly and 

 they are larger. The stigmata much more distinct, pale, broken by ocher 

 spots The anal brown streak, distinct against the pale, ochery white 

 ground ; no gray. Montana ; coll. B. Neumoegen, Esq. 



There is no fine black longtitudinal hair line at base of fore wings and 

 the teeth of t. a. hne seem blunter. As the species are very close in this 

 genus I have little doubt the present is entitled to a designation as such. 

 It is quite distmct in appearance and can be at once detected. Much 

 more distinct from Asteroides, than is the European Asteris. 



