NO. 1283. BE VISION OF SOME NOCTUID MOTHS— SMITH. 195 



Mexico and adds inf<veta Guenee and (uitica Walker to the synon^ymy 

 above given. A« to the latter, he maybe right; the description being 

 of a South American species did not require me to identify it. As to 

 hisiieta he is surely in error, for I compared the examples in tiie Brit- 

 ish Museum, and, in addition, the d(^scription does not tit at all. 

 Guenee. who in all the other descriptions mentions the pointed apex 

 of primaries and the very o))lique hind angle, expressh^ states for 

 iiisueta that they are less sharp than in conqjleta^ with which he com- 

 pares it. In addition, mention is made of the black basal streak, obvi- 

 ous in inxiicfa and al)S()lutely wanting in extlnctii. 



With a good example^ at hand it is simply impossible to mistake the 

 species from its wing form and the gray strigation. But when the 

 insect is a little rubbed, matters are not so easy. The characteristic 

 wing form is destroyed by rubbed fringes; the gray interspacial lines 

 are easily marred and there remains an almost characterless individual. 

 It is in this way that M. Guenee fell in error. 



Enough has been said under the group heading to place the species 

 on structural characters. 



LEUCANIA JUNCICOLA Guenee. 



LeumiiUi jitncicola Guenee, Spec. Gen., Noct., 1, 1852, \}. 83. — Walker, C. B., Mus., 



Het., IX, 1856, p. 96. 

 Heliophila adjuta Grote, Bull. Buff. Soc. Nat. 8ci., II, 1874, ]k 15S; Bull. Buff. 



Soc. Nat. Sci., Ill, 1875, p. 8.— Smith, Bull. 44, U. S. Nat. Mm., 1893, p. 



188, pr. s?yn. 



Ground color a rather bright cream}" yellow, strigation of the pri- 

 maries luteous. Head with a frontal and interantennal purplish line. 

 Collar crossed bv two dusky lines near the middle, and at the tip a 

 series of four contiguous lines of different colors gives the impression 

 of a reddish or purplish band. The little anterior crest has the same 

 purplish markings. Primaries with the veins whitish; the interspaces 

 with at least two narrow, luteous lines. Median vein a little more 

 })roadly pale, inclosing a small black dot at its tip. The transverse 

 posterior line is usually indicated by two venular dots only, but may 

 ))e complete. A black dot is in the submedian interspace about one- 

 third from base. There are no strongly marked shadings, but it is 

 readih' seen that a somewhat darker shade extends l)elow the median 

 to its end, broadens out a little and continues to the outer margin, 

 extending from vein i and to the apex. Another shading extends 

 over the subcostal and, broadening out somewhat, reaches the costa 

 before the apex. A series of very small, black terminal dots. Fringes 

 concolorous. Secondaries somewhat pearly white at base, semitrans- 

 ]mrent. with a smoky outer border and yellowish fringes. B(Mieath, 

 pi'imaries with an obvious pinkish tinge, the disk tending to l)lackish. 

 S(H'()ndaries with the costa 3'ellowish, powdery, and a series of Idack 

 terminal spots in the interspaces. 



