June, I9IO.] Smith : New Noctuid/e. 97 



with whitish and usually a little paler than ground. Secondaries smoky 

 yellowish at base, with a broad, rather well-defined blackish outer border. 

 Fringes whitish, with a smoky interline. Beneath coarsely powdered ; pri- 

 maries with margins largely smoky, secondaries with a smoky outer border, 

 a vague extra-median line and a small discal spot. 

 Expands, i. 00-1.06 inches = 25-26 mm. 



Habitat. — San Francisco, California, Sept. 21, Oct. 4, Mr. F. X. 

 Williams. 



Two males and two females in good condition. The males have 

 the antennal joints a little marked and bristle-tufted and the abdo- 

 men at base with loose dorsal tufting. 



The species is allied to strctchii Hy. Edw., which is referred to 

 Polia by Hampson; but for a variety of reasons I prefer to hold our 

 species as at present arranged in my list. The body is plump and 

 the wings are comparatively short and trigonate. 



Luperina extensa Sm., Journ. N. Y. Ent. Soc, XIII, 203, 1905, Regina. 

 Perigea flavistriga Sm., Journ. N. Y. Ent. Soc, XIII, 204, 1905, Lethbridge, 

 Alberta. 



The type of the former is a large somewhat defective male with 

 diffuse markings, and the resemblance to passer distinctly emphasized. 

 The type of the latter is a very small example in good condition 

 with very narrow, well defined maculation, which gave it a totally 

 different appearance. A small series from Bozeman, Montana, sent 

 in by Prof. Cooley connects the two and proves them identical. The 

 species must stand as Luperina extensa. 



CopicucuUia incresa, new species. 



Head, dark grayish brown or blackish. Collar with the upper margin 

 smoky ; a distinct black transverse line inferiorly and two cloudy shade-lines 

 more centrally. Disc of thorax deep, blackish-brown, margins of patagia 

 dusky. Abdomen with dorsal tuftings small, dark brown. Primaries ashen 

 gray, with a clean bluish tint in the male, a sordid smoky tint in the female. 

 The transverse maculation is obsolete, the t. a. line barely traceable in some 

 examples ; veins narrowly lined with black or shaded with smoky ; a dusky 

 shading along the internal margin and a curved dusky streak above the anal 

 angle. A series of terminal interspaceal lunules which tend to unite into a 

 line toward the hind angle. Ordinary spots small, distinct but not conspicuous ; 

 orbicular round, annulate with yellowish, with a smoky center ; reniform 

 incompletely outlined, broadly kidney-shaped, yellowish and brown powdered. 

 Secondaries in the male pure white with obscure terminal smoky lunules ; 

 in the female smoky brown with white fringes, scarcely paler at the base. 

 Beneath, in the male very pale gray, almost white ; in the female smoky 



