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V. Descriptions of New Noctuidae 



BY H. K. MORRISON", CAMBRIDGE, MASS. 



[Read before this Society, June 5, 1874.] 



Genus LUCERIAj v. Ileinemann. 

 Luceria' Btir^essi (no v. sp.). 



Expanse, 33 m. m. Length of body, 17 m. ni. 



Eyes naked, without hairy lashes. Palpi, front and vertex dark brown. 

 Front rounded ; densely and evenly clothed. Antennae of the male with fine 

 hairy fringes. Collar and thorax dark brown ; the former lighter at its base ; 

 the latter with its villosity dense, but smoothly stroked, without tufts or 

 crests. Abdomen lighter, tinged with yellow, without hairy tufts. Legs dark 

 brown, not spinose ; the joints of the tarsi showing contrasting light rings. 

 Anterior wings with the sub-basal and subterminal spaces carneous or brownish 

 cinereous, shading into blackish brown towards the costa, which is of this 

 color along its entire course, with the exception of three or four light subapical 

 dots. Median and terminal spaces dark, slightly purplish brown. Basal line 

 present. Interior line geminate, its inner line faint, the outer black, distinct, 

 dentate, very strongly so on the submedian nervure, below which it is pro- 

 duced in a spade-shaped tooth. A narrow black longitudinal basal line be- 

 neath the submedian nervure, and opposite to the apex of this tooth. Median 

 shade narrow and dentate below, broader and more diffused on the disc, adja- 

 cent to the reniform spot. Orbicular of medium size, kidney-shaped and con- 

 colorous, surrounded by a fine black line. A black dash sometimes extends 

 from it to the interior line. Reniform of the usual shape, carneous cinereous, 

 with a light irregular central shade. Exterior line geminate ; its inner line 

 black and distinct, of the usual form, acutely dentate, but not forming any 

 very prominent teeth. Exterior and interior lines connected between the me- 

 dian and submedian nervures by a conspicuous black line, becoming broader 



' Mr. Morrison has kindly permitted me to change his MS. generic determinations of Luperina 

 in this and the following species. While referring several of Lcderer's Luperinas to Hadena, v. 

 Hcinemann, without any reference to Ledcrer's genus, takes the European virens as the type of 

 Lucena, to which genus then, as will appear from Mr. Morrison's observations, our two hith- 

 erto undescribed species belong. For Lederer's Group B, not occurring within the geograph- 

 ical limits embraced by v. Heinemann's work, the terra Lederena may obtain. No American 

 species have been hitherto noticed. As yet no species of Apamea Led. (nee Guen.) are de- 

 scribed from our territory. I have pointed out elsewhere that for this genus the term Luperina 

 Bdc, should probably ohi-Ahi.—Orote. 



