NO. 1283. BEVISION OF SOME NOCTUID MOTHS— SMITH. 177 



of body velvety dark brown. Primaries brown with a carmine wash, 

 with a blackish discal spot and a blackish outer line. Secondaries 

 with a carmine powdering- along costal margin, apex, and half of 

 outer margin; with a broken, dusky outer line and a narrow discal 

 spot. 



'Expanse. — 1.56 inches (39 mm.). 



Ilahitat. — Biscayne Ba}", Florida (Mrs. Slosson). 



The species has the wing form of unijpuncta and its general ]>ulld. 

 The markings are all very narrow, thread-like, perfectly distinct, and 

 3'et not contrasting. In color and general appearance it is entirel}'- 

 unlike anj^ of our described forms, though like some of the southern 

 species, from which it seems to be also sufficientl}^ distinct. 



The type and onh' specimen is a female, lacking antenna, but other- 

 wise in good condition. 



I find that Guenee has used the name velutina in this genus, and am 

 under the necessity of making a change. I have made as small a one 

 as possible. 



LEUCANIA UNIPUNCTA Haworth. 



Noclua unlpuncta'H.AVco^Tn, Lep. Britt., II, 1810, p. 177. 



Leucania unijmncta Flint, in Harris Inj. Ins., 1862, p. 627, figs. 274, 275, 276. — 



Grote, Proc. Ent. Soc. Phila., Ill, 1864, p. 540.— Riley, 2d Kept. Ins. Mo., 



1870, p. 37, figs. 11, 14-16; 3d Kept. U. S. Ent. Coram., 1883, pp. 89-156. 

 Leucania exiranea Guenee, Spec. Gen., Noct., I, 1852, p. 77. — Walker, C. B., 



Mus., Het., IX, 1856, j). 93. — Grote and Robinson, Trans. Am. Ent. Soc, 



II, 1869, p. 77, pr. syn. 



Ground color of head, thorax, and primaries a reddish fawn gray, 

 var3'ing toward graj', luteous, and clearer red brown. Palpi a little 

 darker at sides and head often a little darker in front. Collar with a 

 pale, surmounted b}^ a darker transverse, line. Thorax concolorous. 

 Primaries more or less irrorate with dark or blackish scales, which 

 increase in number and tend to darken the outer parts of the wing. 

 Transverse anterior line not traceable or indicated b}^ venular points. 

 A dark point indicates the claviform. Transverse posterior line well 

 removed outwardly, punctiform, variably evident, sometimes scarcely 

 traceable, sometimes geminate, never very prominent. Both ordinary 

 spots are marked as lighter shadings, but are not outlined. Orbicular 

 oval, decumbent. Reniform irregular, marked inferiorl}' by a white 

 dot at the end of the median vein, which is dusky shaded. A blackish 

 oblique shade line extends from the transverse posterior line on vein 

 5 to the outer margin at the apex. Fringes short, concolorous. 

 Secondaries smoky brown, tending to become whitish or partly trans- 

 lucent toward base; veins marked and discal lunule evident in the 

 paler examples; fringes whitish or yellowish, somewhat contrasting. 

 Beneath whitish, powdery, primaries with disk smoky and with a smoky 

 costal spot toward apex. Secondaries with costal and outer margins 

 powdery, darker, and with a small black discal lunule. 

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