June, 1909.] Smith: New Species of Noctuid.'e for 1909. 63 



Habitat. — Redington, Arizona (Dr. Barnes). 



One male and six females in good condition. I was strongly in- 

 clined at first to consider this a washed-out form of nasar ; but the 

 material is in too good condition to permit this belief. 



All the specimens of both sexes are uniformly larger, they all lack 

 the brown and reddish scales in the primaries, and the maculation is 

 uniformly diffuse, not rubbed nor faded. The strong inward black 

 marks from the s. t. line are altogether lacking and, on the whole, 

 I have no doubt we have a good species to deal with. On this point 

 Dr. Barnes agrees with me and I have adopted his suggestion as to a 

 specific name. 



CopicuUia luteodisca, new species. 



Ground color bright bluish gray. Head with vertex and a cross bar below an- 

 tennae brown. Base of collar blackish, edges of patagia blackish margined, disc 

 dusky. Abdomen yellowish, with white hair at base, dorsal tuftings small. Pri- 

 maries with the ordinary spots distinctly outlined, sometimes tinged with yellowish ; 

 a diffused yellowish shading in the submedian interspace between the median lines ; 

 an obvious streak above the anal angle ; the median lines obscure. A very fine 

 blackish line from base to t. a. line in the submedian interspace, very easily lost in a 

 somewhat rubbed example. T. a. line very strongly dentate, irregular, single, not 

 well defined. T. p. line barely traceable by interspaceal blackish marks to vein 2, 

 below which it is narrow, single, blackish and cuts the outer edge of the yellowish 

 shading. There is a traceable, somewhat paler gray s. t. shade line. A series of 

 dusky terminal marks becoming black and continuous below vein 3. A somewhat 

 diffuse black streak from t. p. line in submedian interspace extending obliquely up- 

 ward to the outer margin just above vein 2. Orbicular ringed with black, broadly 

 oval, center concolorous or tinged with yellow, and with a black dot. Reniform rather 

 small, broad, outlined in black, the upper margin tending to become incomplete, and 

 to a filling of yellowish scales, with blackish central line. Secondaries white with 

 a broad smoky margin, veins smoky and fringes white. Beneath white, tending to 

 a smoky outer margin on all wings ; breast gray. 



Expands, 1. 60 inches =41 mm. 



Habitat. — Deming, New Mexico, September 1-7. 



Two females in good condition from Dr. Wm. Barnes. The 

 species is allied to aniipoda Strck., in the distinct ordinary spots, but 

 differs in the darker coloring, the diffuse supra-anal streak, the yellow 

 shadings on the disc of wing, and the very neatly margined white 

 secondaries. The species seems very different from anything previ- 

 ously described and is not included in any of the forms enumerated by 

 Hampson. 



Cucullia obtusa, new species. 



Ground color whitish gray, streaked and powdered with black. Head gray in- 

 feriorly, with a black frontal line, then with a brown and gray line and a brown ver- 



