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NEW SPECIES OF NOCTUID^ FOR 1907. 



No. 1. 

 BY JOHN B. SMITH, SC. D. 



Aci'oiiycta elisabeta u. sp. 



Ground color a very uniform ash-gray, without conspicuous powderings. Front 

 of head with a smoky tinge and the thoracic disc with a faint luteous shading. 

 Primaries with all the maculation very neatly written, not diffuse. The black 

 basal streak is very well defined, sharply marked to the t. a. line, the inner part 

 of which it joins. Basal line geminate, obscurely marked and lost before the 

 basal streak. T. a. line geminate, outwardly oblique from costa, the outer por- 

 tion lost below costal inception, the inner black, broken, clearly defined at and 

 each side of its junction with the basal streak, less evident beyond that to the 

 inner margin, interrupted by an inward tooth on the submedian vein. T. p. line 

 narrow, black, lunulate, preceded by a narrow white line, widely outcurved over 

 the cell and well drawn in below, crossed in the submedian interspace by a very 

 distinct sharply defined black streak. A diffusely lunulate, interrupted whitish 

 s. t. line. A dusky terminal line with larger interspaceal dots, beyond which is 

 a dusky interline in the fringes. An obscure luteo-olivaceous median shade ex- 

 tends obliquely from the middle of the costa to the lower part of the reniforni 

 and is then lost. Orbicular oval, incomplete, concolorous; reniform kidney- 

 shaped, inner side very convex, moderate in size, somewhat darkened inferiorly. 

 Secondaries of male uniformly smoky fuscous. Beneath: primaries blackish, 

 paler toward base, with an augulated exterior line. Secondaries whitish, pow- 

 dery, more so along costa, with an irregular extra-median blackish line and a 

 large ovate discal spot. 



Expands 1.32 inches = 33 mm. 



Hab. — North Elizabeth, New Jersey, in August. 



One good male from Mr. H. H. Brehme taken on a maple tree. 

 The species suggests radcliffei at first sight; but is not as bright a 

 gray and not nearly so well marked. It has rather a more uni- 

 formly dull gray than any other of our species, and the dusky sec- 

 ondaries of the male are characteristic and unlike any other of our 

 forms. 



Specimens are also in the collections of Messrs. Buchholz of Eliza- 

 beth, and Keller of Newark. 



Semiophora grisatra n. sp. 



Head and tliorax bluish-gray, palpi dark brown except at tip. Primaries blue- 

 gray over a smoky base. Basal line distinct, single, black, broadest on costa, nar- 

 rowing to tlie submedian vein, where it ends. T. a. line marked by an oblique 

 l)lack costal streak which touches the middle of the orbicular, by a blackish spot 

 in cell before the orbicular, and by a vague line of black scales following a 

 slightly paler shade from median vein to inner margin. T. p. line marked by a 



TEANS. AM. ENT. SOC. XXXIII. APRIL, 1907. 



