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transverse posterior line. The latter is somewliat dilTiise, its edjjes 

 irre,uular, bnt its course very even and nearly parallel with the outer 

 margin. Subteriiiiii;il line fragmentary, marked by vagiie paler or yel- 

 lowish scales. Ai)e\ not i)aler. A seriesof brown or blackish teriin'iial 

 lunules. The ordinary spots are very feebly marked by npi-igiit bhicl. 

 scales. Secondaries a nniform dark, smoky brown, with a faint admix- 

 ture of carmine. Beneath, uniform blackish brown, without jnarkings. 



Kx|)anse of wings, L*7 mm. = 1.10 inches. 



Habitat. — Florida. 



This si)ecies is entirely unlike all our others, and resembles a West 

 Indian type. 1 would not now describe the spe(;ies as of our fauna 

 without more evidi*nce as to its range, but retain it iiere since it has 

 been described; it will probably tiiidmorecongenial allies when the West 

 Indian species are fully studied. As compared with the other species, 

 it has the i)ointed i)riinaries witl) the oblique outer margins of />. Ixdfi- 

 moralia, but the wings are shorter and broader. It differs from all 

 others of our species, save B. toreuta, by the want of a paler apical 

 s])ace, and from all by the peculiar upright median ]»ale line, which at 

 first appears like tlie transverse posterior line. 



The specimen now before ine is a male and resiMiibles the type which 

 is in the IJuited States ]S^ational Museun). 



Boniolocha toreuta, (irote. 



1872. (Irote, Trans. Am. Entomological Soc, IV, 24, llypena. 



1873. Grote, Bull. Buff. Soc. Nat. Sci., I, 38, Euhnpena. 

 interniiUs, \\ Robinson. 



1870. Robinson, Ann. Lye. Nat. Hist., N. V., IX, 311, Jlnprna. 

 1892, Grote, Trans. Am. Entomological Soc, IV, 21, pr. syn. 



alhisigtialis, Zeller. 

 1872. Zeller, Verb. k. k. Zool. Bot. Ge.s., XXII, 463, Ihninia. 

 1875. Grote, Cbeck List Noctuitbe, 4.5, pr. syn. 

 Ground color sooty or smoky brown. Head and thorax concolorous; 

 abd(mien a little paler. Primaries with no color contrasts, the median 

 lines obscured, marked by Avhite scales. Transverse anterior line 

 marked only by white scales on the costa and internal margin and 

 more rarely, also, on the veins — sometimes quite obsolete. Transverse 

 posterior line traceable tor most of its sinuate course by wiiite scales, 

 usually distinct as a white line at its costal inception, and followed on 

 the inner margin below vein 1, by a white blotch, which extends nearly 

 to the subterminal line; broken, narrow, sinuate, sometimes nearly 

 obsolete and rarely sul)contiiiuous. A series of black, preceded by 

 white, terminal dots. Ordinary spots small, marked by raised black 

 scales. Secondaries, smoky fuscous, immaculate. Heneath, a rather 

 pale, powdery gray; in the female with a reddish tinge, witli a variably 

 marked extra median line and a discal lunule. 



Exi)anse of wings, L*."» to L".> iiiiii.=l to 1.15 inches. 

 Habitat. — New York to Texas, to Kansas; .Inly. 



