

Dec, igos-] SMITH : NEW SPECIES OF NocTUIDjE FOR 1905. 2< '•'! 



Two males and three females in good or fair condition, none of 

 them dated. The sexual difference is well marked in this species, 

 which is allied to but not of the olivacea series. It is a more obscure 

 form, and the tendency seems to be rather to a blackish base on which 

 the ornamentation is picked out with white scales. 



Leucania ferricola, new species. 



Ground color of head, thorax and primaries a thin rusty red over creamy yellow. 

 Head and thorax more rusty, apparently immaculate ; but the thoracic vestiture is 

 compressed and so a little obscured. The primaries have the albilinia type of macu- 

 lation There is a distinct pale s. t. line which does not extend to the costa, and 

 bevond that the terminal space is bluish ; this tint running out to a point below the 

 apex There is a series of black terminal lunules and beyond it a brown line at the 

 base of the fringes. A brown shade in the cell starts at basal fourth and widening, 

 fills it including the small black reniform and extending to the s. t. line. There is a 

 short black streak from base along the median vein. There is a black shading below 

 the submedian at base, changing to a brown which reaches the s. t. line ; the brown 

 shade limited above bv a black streak through the middle of the submedian inter- 

 space There are black dashes in brown clouds in the interspaces before the s. t. 

 hue Secondaries pale with a reddish tinge, a narrow dusky terminal line and a 

 dusky discal spot. Beneath, distinctly yellowish ; the costal margins powdered with 

 brick red, and each wing with a small blackish discal spot. 



Expands : 1.12 inches = 2S mm. 



Habitat. — Cochise County, Arizona, in July. 



One male in very good condition except for the crushed thorax, 

 from Mr. Geor-e Franck. The species is the most brilliant of those 

 belonging to this series and has every detail of the maculation per- 

 fectly defined. 



Luperina extensa, new species. 



Head, thorax and primaries dull brown, with a somewhat luteous tinge as a 

 base Palpi head in front and base of collar a little more yellowish in tinge. Abdo- 

 men a little lighter, more yellowish. Primaries with the transverse maculation tend- 

 ing to obsolescence. There is a yellow streak through the submedian interspace 

 that extends from base, where it is inferiorly marked by black scales across the t. p. 

 line and is lost just before the s. t. line. This streak is not contrasting, though per- 

 fectlv distinct, and the edges are a little diffuse. There is a black streak along mner 

 margin at base. Basal line lost. T. a. line obscurely indicated by blackish scales in 

 the paler parts of the wing. T. p. line single, obscure, darker brown except toward 

 the inner margin where it is emphasized by black scales ; somewhat relieved by fol- 

 lowing yellow scales, its course as a whole a little outcurved over the cell and only a 

 little incurved toward inner margin. S. t. line a little irregular, broken, made up of 

 vellow scales, preceded and followed by black scale shadings, so that the line is 

 clearly distinguishable throughout its course. A series of distinct blackish terminal 

 lunula. Fringes yellowish. Claviform not marked in the specimen. Orbicular 



