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XXVI. Description of tvv'o new Noctuidae from the 



Atlantic District 



BY H. K. MOREISOX, CAMBRIDGE, MASS. 



[Bead before this Society, February 13, 1874.] 



Valeria Grotei, nov. sp. 



Eyes naked, dark green, witli numerous black spots. Antennae strongly 

 ciliated. Palpi slight, with the first two joints light brown, the third black, 

 tipped with whitish. Front, vertex and collar clothed with dense, fine, dark 

 brown hair. A transverse black line on the prothorax. Thorax stout, clothed 

 with long, thick, mingled black, brown and whitish tipped hairs. A dorsal 

 patch of white hair just behind the prothoracic black line. Abdomen yellow- 

 ish gray, with a black band between each of the segments and with a conspic- 

 uous black tuft on the seventh segment. Beneath, breast and legs clothed 

 with long blackish hairs, abdomen lighter. Anterior wings, above, dark oliva- 

 ceous brown, squamation coarse and rough. Ordinary lines fine, black, hardly 

 perceptible on account of the depth of the ground color ; exterior line gemi- 

 nate, its outer line less distinct, strongly projected inwardly, below the cell 

 irregularly dentate. Interior line geminate, interrupted. Median shade black- 

 ish, diffused. All the nervules are irregularly marked with blackish, particu- 

 larly the median branches. A black elongate spot on the fourth median 

 nervule near its termination. Subterminal line white, its superior portion 

 iindulating, or zigzag inferiorly, forming a broad inward curve enclosing the 

 black spot on the fourth median nervule. Orbicular small in proportion to 

 the reniform, whitish, clearly defined, with an internal black aunulus. Reni- 

 form very large, white, diffused, crossed interiorly by a brown shade line, the 

 rudiment of an anuulus. A series of four or five white costal spots above 

 the reniform. A sub-triangular glaucous blotch with its base resting on 

 the inner margin a little before the inner angle. A series of black dots 

 at the base of the fringe, followed by a marginal whitish outwardly scol- 

 loped line. Posterior wings white, slightly yellowish. Median line formed 

 of black dots ou the nervules ; outer margin of the wing more or less clouded 

 with black atoms. There are traces of a subterminal pale line and a fine ter- 

 minal black line formed of united lunules ; from the median line outward the 

 nervules are strongly marked with black ; the discal dot beneath shows faintly 

 above. Anterior wings, beneath, powdered with fine black atoms. A pale 

 glaucous border, broad and suffused along the inner margin, narrower and 

 clearly defined along the outer margin. Costal margin tinged with ochreous. 

 Disc gray, with gray hairs following the course of the median nervure and at 

 the base of the wing. Reniform spot reproduced beneath, whitish, with a 



