180 PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL MUSEUM. vol. xxv. 



LEUCANIA SUBPUNCTATA Harvey. 



HcHnplnht snhi,unrtaln Harvey, Bull. Buff. Soc. Nat. Sci., Ill, 1875, p. 8. 

 Lcunnnn .ynhiinurhtta Smith, Bull. 44, U. S. NatMus., 1893, p. 189. 

 Leuantki aMiqdimta Strecker, Lep. Rhop. and Het., Suppl., I, 1898, p. 9. 



Color a dull, grayish red-])rown over a yellowish base. Head with 

 two darker transverse lines on front. Collar with three lighter and 

 three smoky lines alternating. The patagiaj are much powdered 

 with l)lackish. Primaries with a dark smoky or blackish shade over 

 the median vein, relieving a white dot at its end and extending beyond 

 it nearly to the transverse posterior line. In the costal region the 

 veins are whitish, the interspaces streaked with blackish. Along the 

 inner margin is a paler, more yellowish area in which the streakings 

 are lighter. The terminal area is dark, limited above by a somewhat 

 yellowish oblique subapical shade. Transverse posterior line puncti- 

 form, complete. Secondaries white, somewhat translucent, veins and 

 outer border smoky. Beneath, primaries smoky with a reddish tinge; 

 a black spot on costa toward apex from which a smoky line may 

 extend across the wing. Secondaries whitish, with the costal and 

 outer margins more or less obvioush' reddish gray, powdery. 



Mepanse. — 1.35 to 1.52 inches (34 to 38 mm.). 



Tlalntiit. — Agricultural College, Mississippi, in Octol)er; Harris 

 County and elsewhere in Texas in March; New Mexico, near its south- 

 ern border. 



This seems to be locally common in Texas; but it was many years 

 before I had an example in my collection. At present 1 have eleven 

 specimens, representing both sexes, and except for size and for a little 

 lighter or a little darker general effect there is no variation. 



The structural features and other distinctive characters are else- 

 where referred to. 



Complicata Strecker was described from a rather small New Mexi- 

 can specimen before the species had turned up in large numbers in 

 Texas. 



LEUCANIA LUTEOPALLENS, new species. 



Leucanin paJlens Speyek, Stett. Ent. Zeit., XXXVI, 1875, p. 112, and of Ameri- 

 can authors generally. 



Ground color a creamy yellowy the primaries with the veins paler, 

 the interspaces with somewhat more luteous streakings. Head, collar, 

 and thorax immaculate. The median vein and its lower branches at 

 the end of the cell tend to paler, and a slightly darkej- shade is usually 

 noticeable below the median. A black discal dot at the end of the cell. 

 Transverse posterior line reduced to tSvo black dots. Secondaries 

 white, the veins on disk and a small area of the disk itself tinged with 

 blackish. Beneath yellowish white; primaries with a blackish streak- 

 ing at the end of the cell and an outer dusky venular band; secondaries 



