INSECUTOR INSCITI^E MENSTRUUS 101 



ground-color, without black center. Claviform a broad pale 

 shade, without edges, irrorated with red-brown scales. Reni- 

 form large, pale, indistinctly black-outlined, the center nearly 

 white, without included markings. Outer line pale, dentate, 

 in-drawn below cell, distinctly remote from the margin. Sub- 

 terminal line pale, indistinct, retracted above vein 6, denticulate 

 centrally, black-edged within below vein 2. A narrow terminal 

 black line, broken by the veins. Hind wing white, a little 

 touched with gray at apex ; terminal line black, distinct, broken 

 by the veins. Expanse, 35 mm. 



Type, male, No. 23802, U. S. Nat. Mus. ; Washington 

 Mountains, Arizona, date and collector missing (gift of B. 

 Preston Clark). 



TWO NEW NORTH AMERICAN MOTHS 



(Lepidoptera) 

 By HARRISON G. DYAR 



NOCTUID^ 

 Agrotin^ 

 Episilia impingens, new species. 



Male antennae lengthily pectinated almost to the tip. Light 

 fawn-gray, the thorax shaded darker in front. Fore wing 

 with the lines blackish, crenulate, the inner somewhat shaded 

 and broadly waved, the outer dentate on the veins, both a little 

 shaded on costa and inner margin. Subterminal line faint, 

 pale. Orbicular a blackish dot ; renif orrri small, lunate. Hind 

 wing blackish brown, the fringe a little paler, disk between the 

 veins thinly scaled. Expanse, 36 mm. 



Type, male, No. 22815, U. S. Nat. Mus. ; East New York, 

 Long Island, New York, May 18, 1903 (J. Doll). A female 

 also is before me from the same collecting. 



Near E. manifesta Morr., but wholly without the reddish 

 color of that species. 



In Hampson's Catalogue of the Lepidoptera Phalaenae 

 (1903), two species of Episilia, placed in his section II, char- 

 acterized by having the male antennae with moderate branches 



