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IX. New Noctuae 



BY AUG. R. GROTE. 

 [Read before this Society, Avgust 7, 1874.] 



Hadena confoderata, Grote. 



$ . — Allied to II. rurea, and similarly sized. Eyes naked, tibiae unarmed. 

 Smoothly scaled, of a peculiar light olivaceous ash color with brownish black 

 blotches on the fore wings. Collar light brown ; the prothoracic pieces sliow 

 a central curved dark line, above this they are blackish. The fore wings have 

 indistinct lines; they are shaded or blotched with blackish at base, on the sub- 

 basal space superiorly, and beyond the geminate t. a. line about the indistinct 

 claviform spot. The stigmata are coucolorous with the ashen wing, moderate, 

 upright, entirely undefined, determined by blackish shades between them and 

 by the blackish costal edge. Beyond the reniform, a large blackish blotch ob- 

 tains, irregularly triangulate, from the costal region downwards. It extends 

 on costal region from above the reniform to tlie apices ; reaching downwardly 

 to vein 2, obliquely margined on its inner edge and outwardly conforming to 

 the subterminal line, leaving the terminal space ashen but crossing this latter 

 medially at tlie place of the usual w-niark. A terminal interrujited dotted 

 line. Fringes ashen, outwardly dotted with a darker shade. Hind wings 

 blackish fuscous, without markings, paler at base ; fringes pale. Beneath 

 pale, much shaded with fuscous, especially on fore wings ; no distinct lines or 

 discal points. 



Expanse, 35 m.m. New Orleans (Mr. V. T. Clianibers), Texas. 



Tacniosea, n. g. 



The moth is allied to the species of Taeniocampa. The head is somewhat 

 closely applied to the thorax as in that genus. The frontal hairs form a large 

 loose longer tuft ; the squamation is loosely wooly. The eyes are naked, with 

 lashes ; maxillae moderate. Labial palpi long, equaling the front or slightly 

 exceeding it, third joint proportionately long and more closely scaled. Anten- 

 nae simple, scaled above, pubescent beneath with lateral setae which are 

 merely longer in the male. Thorax with the collar distinctly lobed and with 

 a slight frontal tuft, else untufted as is the abdomen. The abdomen has the 

 ovipositor lengthily exserted. All the tibiae unarmed. The slight species 

 otfer a combination of structural characters, ex])0sed above, which will ex- 

 clude them from any of Lederer's genera. In ornamentation there is a certain 

 resemblance to Taeniocampa gothica. 



Taeniosca s?eiitilis, Grote. 



5 2 . — Mouse gray with a carneous tinge on the thorax, not unlike the color 

 of Taeniocampn alia. The fore wings are tingc-d with carneous ochre on the 

 median s])ac(' and sometimes i"" over the whole wing. The transverse lines 



