REVISION OF SOME NOCTVID MOTHS— SMITH. 201 



LEUCANIA CALGARIANA. new species. 



Ground color ji pale luteoiis, overlaid, streaked or washed with red. 

 Collar almost whitish, quite contrastiiio-, crossed hy three dark gray 

 transverse lines. Primaries obviously strigate. Median \-ein (•ons|)ic- 

 uously white; its branches (three and four) also white as a rule and, in 

 addition, most of the other veins are more or less whitish. A bhickish 

 or at least darker shade ])elovv the median vein and extending vaouelv 

 beyond it to form the usual trio-onate subapical cloud. Discal black 

 dot small oi- wanting. Transverse posterior lino reduced to two dotlets 

 or altogether wanting. Secondaries white or slightly yellowish, with 

 a more or less obvious smoky margin. Beneath, primaries reddish 

 gray, powdery, tending to a blackish disk. Secondaries white, costal 

 region reddish, powder3^ 



E,i'paii.s(\ — l.-iS to 1.56 inches (37 to ;V.» mm.). 



//r//>/V<//.— Calgary, Alberta, June 20 to July 28 (F. H. Wolley Dod). 



Ten examples, all from Mr. Dod and all in good condition. 



This species is conspicuously dift'erent in color from the others of 

 this series and is also the largest in average expanse. It is most nearly 

 allied to anterocl<tra and is that species suffused with red. Whether it 

 is merely a color variety or not 1 can not now say. Nothing like it 

 has come from other localities. Mi'. Dod has sent me about twenty 

 examples of both forms and there is no dithculty whatever in separat- 

 ing the two. 1 prefer, under the circumstances, to risk the specific 

 name until a careful study of the early stages determines the status of 

 forms. 



Tyjx^.-^o. 0243, U.S.N. M. 



LEUCANIA STOLATA Smith. 

 Lencanid sfolata Smith, Trans. Am. Ent. Soc, XXI, 1894, p. 76, pi. v, fig. 8. 



Ground color a pale straw yellow. Collar with two transverse 

 dark hues. Patagiaj with a dusky powdering near the margin. Pri- 

 niaries with the median vein white, a short spur marking the inception 

 of vein 2, wdiile veins 3 and 4 are w^hite a little distance from their 

 point of inception. A smoky ])rown shade accompanies this line 

 inferiorily, and extends beyond the cell as an elongate dusky triangle 

 between veins 4 and (>, fading out before the margin is reached. A 

 less distinct brownish shade extends along the inner margin, and a 

 vague smoky tinge is apparent over the costal and apical region. 

 Between the veins, beyond the cell, are faint darker longitudinal brown 

 lines, giving the wing there a feebly strigate appearance. ' A series of 

 small black terminal dots and a HmaU dot at the end of the median 

 vein. Secondaries white. Beneath white, feebly irrorate, primaries 

 with a somewhat yellowish tinge. 



EvpatiKe. — 1.28 inches ,(32 mm.). 



