March. 1906] Smith: New Noctuid/e. 19 



spaces dull, smoky ; median space and the broad subterminal shade line pale yellow- 

 ish. Basal space uniform, smoky, overlaid by yellowish hairs. T. a. line with an 

 inward tooth on the median vein, else as a whole outcurved. T. p. line outwardly 

 oblique from costa, forming a sharp angle on vein 4, thence with a moderate incurve 

 to base. S. t. line broad, diffuse, pale, only a little irregular. Fringe pale. Orbicular 

 moderate or small, smoky. Reniform large, smoky, oblong, only a little constricted 

 medially. Secondaries black, with yellowish fringes, and with a yellow discal area 

 in which is a. large black discal blotch. Beneath, dull whitish, median area with a 

 yellow tinge, the darker portions of upper surface showing through. Primaries with 

 a small black orbicular and a large black reniform. Secondaries with a large, black, 

 lunate spot. 



Expands. — .6'j-.'j2 inch = 17-18 mm. 



Habitat. — Los Angeles Co., Calif. ; Argus Mrs., Calif., in May. 

 One male and two females, two of them in very fair condition. 

 The specimen from the Argus Mts. was collected by Koebele, belongs 

 to the National Museum and has a little more of the desert habitus 

 than the other examples which, while collected in an arid region, were 

 not so distinctly in a desert area. 

 Melicleptria dobla, new species. 



Head, thorax and abdomen black, more or less clothed with yellowish white 

 scales. The collar has a blackish median line and the abdomen is bare of white 

 vestiture except at base and tip. Primaries blackish brown or smoky, with an overlay 

 of whitish scales which is irregularly distributed and probably varies ; median space 

 whitish, powdered with blackish below vein 2. Basal line whitish, marked on costa. 

 T. a. line whitish, more or less confused with median space, as a whole with an even 

 outcurve. T. p. line evenly and rather deeply sinuate, S-shaped, clearly defined, 

 though narrow. S. t. line narrow, whitish, irregular. A series of blackish terminal 

 lunules. Fringes of the dark ground color. Orbicular traceable as a black shade on 

 t. a. line ; but not distinct. Reniform large, subquadrate, blackish, the most promi- 

 nent feature of the wing. Secondaries black with white fringes. Beneath, pri- 

 maries black at base ; median space yellowish with a large black reniform, outer area 

 black, apex yellowish. Secondaries black except along costal and outer margins, 

 which are yellowish. Body black, breast with yellowish fine divergent vestiture. 



Expands. — .78 inch =19.5 mm. 



Habitat. — Doble, Calif., April 5. 



One good female collected by Mr. George S. Hutson. It is totally 

 different from all the other species with black secondaries and has no 

 very close allies in the genus. 

 Melicleptria edwardsii, new species. 



Head and body smoky brown ; vestiture of head and thorax dull brown, tipped 

 with yellow, giving a yellowish cast to the surface. Abdominal vestiture smooth, 

 edges of the segments narrowly pale-ringed. Primaries dull smoky brown over a 

 sordid pale tawny. The basal and s. t. spaces are mostly smoky brown ; the median 



