June, 1909] Smith: New Species of Noctuid.b for 1909. 57 



NEW SPECIES OF NOCTUID^ FOR 1909. 



By John B. Smith, ScD., 

 New Brunswick, N. J. 



Feralia furtiva, new species. 



Ground color dark smoky brown ; head, thorax and primaries overlaid by mossy 

 greenish yellow. Antennse white at base. Tip of collar and edges of patagia nar- 

 nowly black, disc of patagia with some white scales. Base marked with black and 

 white. Primaries with all the maculation contrastingly white, edged with black 

 scales. Basal line white, curved to the median vein at base, whence white lines ex- 

 tend along median and submedian to t. a. line. T. a. line white, black-edged each 

 side, strongly outcurved in the interspaces. T. p. line well removed outwardly, 

 white, irregularly edged with black, very irregular in course, outwardly denticulate 

 on the veins, nearest to outer margin on veins 3 and 4. A series of black terminal 

 lunules, beyond which the white fringes are cut with black. Costa marked with alter- 

 nate black and white areas. Claviform very large, incompletely outlined in white. 

 Orbicular large, almost round, outlined in white. Reniform very large, incompletely 

 defined above and below, sides white. Secondaries uniformly smoky brown, the 

 fringes soiled whitish. Beneath very dark smoky, primaries marked with black and 

 white along costa, and fringes alternately black and white. Secondaries with a 

 blackish discal blotch, from which a blackish line, edged on each side by a whitish 

 shade, extends to base : with a whitish subterminal line, beyond which the wing is 

 paler toward hind angle. Fringes cut with white and smoky. 



Expands 1. 40 inches == 35 mm. 



Habitat. — Sudbury, Ontario, 1891. 



A single female which has been in my collection for many years 

 and which I have always hesitated to describe because I feared it might 

 be a discolored jocosa. I have recently seen over 100 jocosa how- 

 ever, many of them discolored, and have a dozen now before me ; but 

 in none is there any approach to the peculiarly uniform dark color of 

 the new species, combined as it is with the strikingly clear white of 

 the maculation. On the under side the marking of the secondaries is 

 quite different, and on the upper side the absence of the usually con- 

 spicuous black markings oi jocosa seem to authorize a new name. At 

 all events I have risked it. 



Luperina discors Grote. 



This species was described by Mr. Grote from Kansas in 1881, 

 and in 1890 I referred it as identical with Mr. Morrison's burgessi 

 described in 1874 from Massachusetts examples. When I wrote I had 

 only western examples before me ; but I had seen and had compared 

 eastern examples. From this comparison and the descriptions, I con- 



