June, 1909.] Smith: New Species of Noctuid^ for 1909. 59 



examples collected by Mr. Hutson are more flown than those from the 

 Barnes collection and therefore seem lighter in color ; but there 

 seems no reasonable doubt of their identity. The orbicular is almost 

 lost in most examples, but can be traced in others by black scales and 

 is then large, oval, oblique. The reniform is very like that in dis- 

 cors ; large, kidney-shaped, outwardly a little relieved by pale scales- 

 This is an ally of discors but much darker in color and easily dis. 

 tinguished from it. 



Fishia hanhami, new species. 



Dark smoky brown overlaid by black and blackish. Head with a black frontal 

 line. Collar with a broad black transverse line above a median whitish shade band ; 

 a narrow blackish line just below tip. Patagia with black subniarginal line. Disc 

 black'sh powdered, the divided crest conspicuous. Abdomen more evenly smoky 

 gray-brown, dorsal tufts prominent. Primaries with the markings conspicuous, but 

 not well defined. There is a short black curved mark at base below median vein, 

 and a broader, more obvious streak, which extends to the t. a. line below vein i. A 

 somewhat diffuse, conspicuous black bar connects the median lines in the submedian 

 interspace. T. a. line geminate, inner line tending to become lost, outer black, in- 

 cluded space whitish or at least paler, nearly even from costa to middle, then twice 

 outwardly angled before the inner margin. T. p. line obscurely geminate, inner line 

 black, outwardly edged with whitish, taking the form of a double line opposite the 

 anal angle. In course it is outwardly oblique from costa to vein 6, thence more or 

 less lunulate and parallel with outer margin. S. t. line yellowish white, punctiform 

 except toward apex, the spots interrupting a series of interspaceal black streaks. A 

 yellow, narrow terminal line, preceded by small black interspaceal lunules. Clavi- 

 form obscured in the diffuse connecting streak. Orbicular large, nearly round, in- 

 completely defined, edged and powdered with small white scales. Reniform large, 

 irregular, a little constricted, incompletely defined, with white powdery edging and 

 markings. Secondaries, in the males, dirty white with a broad, somewhat lunulate 

 black terminal line ; in the female uniform dark smoky, with a similar terminal line. 

 Beneath, powdery; all wings with an extra-median line and roundish discal mark : 

 in the male the ground is whitish ; in the female smoky. 



Expands, i. 56-1. 70 inches ^^9-42 mm. 



Habitat. — Victoria, British Columbia, in September. 



Two males and one female, from Dr. Barnes' collection, taken by 

 M. A. W. Hanham, to whom I take pleasure in dedicating this spe- 

 cies. It is an ally of evelina French, but smaller, darker, much more 

 powdery, and with better marked tufting throughout. The male an- 

 tennae are distinctly serrate and fasciculate. 



Hyppa spaldingi, new species. 



General color gray over a dirty yellowish brown. Head brown, front blackish. 

 Thorax of the general gray, over brown ; collar yellowish at base below a black trans- 

 verse line ; patagia with narrow black submarginal lines. Primaries with a washed-out 



