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Vo l^^TT SEPTEMBER, 1911. No. 3. 



NEW SPECIES OF NOCTUID^ FOR 1911. NO. i. 



By John B. Smith, Sc.D., 



New Brunswick, N. J. 



Demas infanta, new species. 



Ground color a very dark, dull ashen or smoky gray. The head, collar 

 and breast are paler, more whitish, less powdery, and the antennae are yellow- 

 ish. The thorax is a little paler than the primaries and the patagia are 

 crossed by alternate bars of black and whitish as in the others of the genus. 

 Primaries very evenly dark powdered, almost smoky, with the white showing 

 only at the base of the wings. The median lines are just darker than the 

 ground, single, the t.a. preceded the t.p. followed by white scales which are 

 more obvious in the female. Lines are in course like those of flavicornis, 

 but there is no connection between them and there is no obvious median shade. 

 S.t. line outwardly dentate on the veins and emphasized by following whitish 

 scales, inwardly diffuse. There is a dusky terminal line preceded by a whitish 

 lunate shade line. The orbicular is small, whitish, round, tending to become 

 punctiform. Reniform small, narrow, elongate, whitish, with a narrow dusky 

 central line. Secondaries uniform smoky brown in both sexes. Beneath, 

 with a whitish hoary powdering over a smoky brown base. Tuftings of anterior 

 legs gray, else the vestiture of thorax and legs whitish. 



Expands 38-42 mm. = i. 52-1. 68 inches. 



Habitat. — New Brighton, Penna., IV, 29 (Merrick) ; Pennsyl- 

 vania, V, 2 (Kemp) ; Johnson City, Tenn., May. 



Two males and one female that have come gradually into my col- 

 lection during the few years recently past. They were at first con- 

 sidered as very dark forms of flavicornis; but with both sexes at 

 hand, the difference became obvious. There is more than a casual 

 resemblance to Seirodonta hilincata and I should not be much sur- 



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