REVISION OF SOME NOCTUID MOTHS— SMITH. 189 



I have little doubt as to the specific standing of this form. 

 Type.—^o. 6248, U.S.N.M. 



LEUCANIA LIGATA Grote. 



Heliophila ligaia Grote, Trans. Am. Ent. Soc, V, 1875, p. 115. 

 Lmcanla ligata Streckkr, Eept. Chief Eng., 1878-79, V, 1879, p. 1862. 



This slender species has pure white secondaries and fringes in the 

 female, while in the opposite sex these are slightly soiled. Forewings 

 whitish ocher gray, faintly purple tinged, with the veins obsoletel}^ 

 white marked and accompanied b}^ longitudinal blackish shades. 

 Median nervure covered b}^ a whitish streak, culminating in a white 

 spot relieving a single inferior black dot and accompanied by a black 

 shading which continues diffusedly to external margin, and leaves a 

 clear ochery space above it on the cell, reaching ])eyond the dotted 

 transverse line. Transverse posterior line indicated b}^ a series of 

 black venular points. Very minute marginal black points; fringes a 

 little paler than the wing. Thorax and head like primaries. Beneath, 

 without discal dots or common lines; a terminal dotted line on both 

 wings; primaries and costal region of secondaries somewhat rosy gra}^, 

 else the secondaries are whitish, subpellucid. Under surface of body 

 and legs of a slightly rosy gray. Collar faintly lined. 



i:xpanse.— 1.10 to 1.22 inches (27.5 to 30.5 mm.). 



Uahitat. —Texiis, March to November; Florida in March; Colorado, 

 July 31. 



Twelve examples are before me, mostl}^ from Texas; Shovel Moun- 

 tain and Harris County being the only specific localities. The above 

 is practically Mr. Grote's description, not in quotation marks, because 

 not literally transcribed. 



In general, there is a decided reddish gray tinge, a coarse black 

 powdering, an obvious dotted transverse posterior line, and a longi- 

 tudinal dark streak which extends over the white marked median vein 

 from base, be3^ond it to the transverse posterior line or even the outer 

 margin. The secondaries are rarely immaculate, but may be so in 

 either sex; nor, on the other hand, is the smoky outer margin very 

 extensive in any case seen by me. The species does not seem to be 

 rare in Texas and tends to lose the reddish or purplish tinge. 



LEUCANIA FLABILIS Grote. 



Heliophila flab His Grote, Can. Ent., XIH, 1881, p. 15. 

 Leucania flabilis Smith, Bull. 44, U. S. Nat. Mus., 1893, p. 189. 



Ver}" pale ochery or straw color, shaded with fuscous. The pale 

 longitudinal shades extend along the cell over the interspaces between 

 veins 5 and 6, nearly to the margin. A short pale shade on the inter- 

 space above and extending nearer the margin. From the base a wide 



