June, 1909.] Smith: New Species of Noctuid.b for 1909. 65 



The single example from Prof. Cockerell has been in my collec- 

 tion since 1900 awaiting additional material. 



The antennae of the male are very shortly pectinated — almost ser- 

 rate only — and the branches are set with dense lateral ciliae and 

 furnished with a longer terminal bristle so as to give the appearance 

 of being fasciculate or bristle-tufted. Among the species with similar 

 structure this has no very close allies, and it resembles rather an un- 

 dersized Perigea alfkenii Grt. — in fact I have no doubt the two are 

 confused in collections. 



Taeniocampa quinque-fasciata, new species. 



Ground color varies from mouse-gray to fawn-gray, or even to rusty reddish. 

 Head and thorax concolorous. Primaries more or less irrorated, but not often ob- 

 viously strigulale ; crossed in whole or in part by five variably conspicuous lines or 

 fascia. Basal line single, diffuse, brown, excurved, extending from costa to sub- 

 median vein. This line, while it is always traceable, tends to become lost and is 

 rarely conspicuous. T. a. line single, rather well removed from base, with a mode- 

 rate outcurve, more or less drawn in on the veins. This line is less diffuse, always 

 traceable though sometimes incomplete, and usually well defined. Median shade 

 broad, diffuse, at or a little beyond the middle of the wing, outwardly oblique to lower 

 part of reniform, then with an inward, obtuse angle, obliquely to the inner margin. 

 This broad shade is usually conspicuous and always obvious. T. p. line single, 

 oblique from costa to vein 6, there forming a rather sharp angle and becoming cren- 

 ulated to the inner margin. This line is usually obvious and sometimes conspicuous 

 over the costal area, but tends to become lost below the angle. S. t. line yellowish- 

 disjunct just below the apex, thence rather even to the inner margin, preceded by a 

 variably distinct dusky shading which may be a mere edging and may extend nearly 

 half wav across the s. t. space. A series of small, dark terminal lunules. There is a 

 black or dusky spot in the cell between basal and t. a. line, and usually another at 

 the anterior margin of the orbicular spot. Orbicular large, concolorous, ovate, a little 

 oblique, defined by a narrow, pale ring and tending to become obsolete. Reniform 

 large, broad, kidney-shaped, outlined by a pale ring, tending to become dark filled 

 inferiorly. Secondaries dusky in both sexes, the fringes paler. Beneath whitish, 

 powdery, with a conspicuous outer black fascia and a black discal spot on all wings. 



Expands, l. 40-1. 65 inches =: 35-41 mm. 



Habitat. — Colorado ; Glenwood Springs VII, Garfield Co., 6000 

 feet: Washington; Pullman, IV, 19, Seattle: Oregon, Corvallis III, 

 31 : Vancouver, B. C, III, 31, IV, 6: Massett, Q. C. I., IV, 28. 



Seven males and four females mostly in good condition, from 

 various sources. My attention was drawn to this species by a somewhat 

 discolored and very fully marked example received for determination 

 from Dr. Fletcher. All the transverse maculation is practically com- 

 plete, and the ^-fasciata application is obvious. In seeking to differ- 

 entiate it in other respects I found among my examples of pacifica 



