Dec, 1905.] SMITH : NEW SPECIES OF NOCTUID.E FOR I905. 193 



Expands : 1.42 inches = 35 mm. 



Habitat. — Calgary, Alberta, July 2, '96. 



Probably received from Mr. Dod though the specimen does not 

 bear his label. It is a broad-winged form more like imperita than 

 pressa and yet not unlike an obscurely marked pressa. I have hesi- 

 tated long before describing it and do so now only because this may 

 be really the male of the following species — discolor — despite the 

 differences in wing form and maculation. 



Aplectoides discolor, new species. 



Head, thorax and primaries very pale gray, almost white, powdered with black. 

 Head immaculate, collar with a vague dusky line across the middle. Thorax powder)-, 

 patagia obscurely submargined. Primaries irregularly shaded and powdered, with 

 conspicuous contrasts and varying greatly. Basal line geminate, marked on costa, 

 blackish. T. a. line geminate, not well defined, as a whole outwardly oblique and 

 with a little outcurve. T. p. line geminate, obscure, marked only by pale included 

 space or by occasional smoky or blackish scales ; as a whole a little outcurved over 

 the cell and a little incurved below. S. t. line white, a little irregular, preceded by 

 a more or less continuous black shade which becomes diffuse inwardly. A series of 

 small black terminal lunules. An obscure median shade. Space before and between 

 the ordinary spots is the darkest part of the wing, a black bar connecting the spots 

 inferiorly. Claviform large and broad, incompletely outlined. Orbicular large, round 

 or oval, black margined, center with or without a dark spot. Reniform moderate in 

 size, kidney-shaped more or less completely outlined, the center powdered with- 

 blackish. Secondaries whitish with a smoky suffusion which forms an obscure sub- 

 marginal band and discal lunule ; the fringes white with a dusky line at base. Beneath 

 gray, powdery, with a more or less obvious extra-median line and discal spot. 



Expands : 1. 55-1. 65 inches = 39-41 mm. 



Habitat. — British Columbia ; Inverness, July 16 ; Mouth of Skeene 

 River, June 29. 



Two females received from Dr. James Fletcher, both somewhat 

 defective and illustrating extremes in ornamentation. The ground is 

 white in both cases : in one specimen the cell except for the ordinary 

 spots is well darkened, but as for the rest the powdering is scant and 

 scarce sufficient to mark any except the s. t. line ; there is merely a 

 vague mottling. In the second specimen the black is diffused over 

 the entire wing and the ordinary lines are marked by the white included 

 spaces. The wing form is like that of pressa and the paler specimen 

 might at first be mistaken for that species or yet more easily for con- 

 dita. Although /ales may possibly prove to be the male of discolor it 

 would be the first instance in this genus of a sexual difference in wing 

 form . 



