June, 1910.] Smith : New Noctuid.'E. 89 



the vetusta (murcemda) of the East, is common throughout the 

 Rocky Mountain region and westward, and I found it named catenula 

 Grt., in all collections accessible to me over twenty-five years ago — 

 some of the determinations by Mr. Grote himself. I never ques- 

 tioned the species and, in 1900, described as Carncades contagionis 

 a species which then came into my hands for the first time. Re- 

 cently I sent specimens of my species to Sir George F. Hampson 

 and he informs me that contagionis is identical with the type of 

 catenula. A reference to the original description of that species puts 

 the matter beyond doubt, and contagionis must sink as a duplication 

 of catenula. But that leaves the species now universally labelled 

 catenula in American collections without a name, and for that I 

 propose the term catcnuloides. 

 Euxoa andera, new species. 



Head gray tending to brown, with a black band across middle of front 

 and another between antennae. Collar light gray below a broad black median 

 band, darker ash gray above it. Thorax brownish, disc tending to gray. 

 Primaries bluish gray, costal region much paler, through the center a brown- 

 ish shade which is usually broken in the s. t. space. Transverse maculation 

 lost. A black streak from base below median vein may or may not end in a 

 small, loop-like claviform. The ordinary spots are fused, orbicular elongate, 

 open above to the costa, altogether or in part ; reniform small, upright, usu- 

 ally complete, but sometimes open to costa ; inferiorly both spots are sharply 

 defined by the black shade which fills the cell to the median vein. Terminal 

 space dusky, irregular, more or less emphasized by interspaceal blackish 

 streaks. A narrow pale line at base of fringes. Secondaries white in the 

 male, pale smoky in the female. 



Expands, 1.12-1.40 inches ^ 28-35 rn^n. 



Habitat. — Stockton, Utah, September, October (Tom Spalding) ; 

 Glenwood Springs, Colorado (Barnes) ; Pullman, Washington 

 (Piper) ; Readington and Santa Catalina Mts., Pima Co., Arizona, 

 September (Barnes). 



A dozen specimens, male and female, are now before me and I 

 have had many more. This is the species that I have had for years 

 as hollemani Grt., and have distributed under that name in all direc- 

 tions. The receipt recently, of a much darker form, with smoky 

 secondaries in the male, almost black in the female, has caused a 

 reexamination of material and descriptions, resulting in the dis- 

 covery that this pale form with almost identical markings is really 



