JOURNAL 



OF THE 



Jlf\a goph 6!nlomologirHl ^oriFtg; 



V^ol. VnT SEPTEMBER, 1900. No. 3. 



NEW SPECIES OF FLORIDIAN NOCTUID.E. 



By John B. Smith, Sc.D. 



llae following species, with one exception, were taken by Mrs 

 Annie Trumbull Slosson to whose kindness I owe the types which will 

 be dei)Osited in the U. S. National Museum. 



It is more than probable that all these are really West Indian or 

 Central American types; but I have been unable to identify them 

 with any described species. 



This does not include all the new species taken by Mrs. Slosson ; 

 a few are to be described in a paper prepared for the Proceedings of 

 the United States National Museum. There are here a number of new 

 generic types, some of which are very peculiar. 

 Erastria strigulataria, sp. nov. 



Ground color alight sepia brown, mottled, streaked and overlaid by white scales. 

 Head and thorax without distinct maculation. Primaries with the hues confused, 

 the whole wing streaked in appearance, the s. t. line contrastmgly marked, as the 

 on y prominen? feature in the wing. T. a. line single, brown, w:th long ou er teeUa 

 broLn, incomplete. T. p. line single, brown, linear, outcurved over the cell, w.th a 

 deep narrow sinus from the outcurve to the cell, itself, and another broader sinus 

 which extends inward to the t. a. line. S. t. line whitish, oblique, with a broad on- 

 ward tooth at middle, preceded by a brown shade, the terminal space darkemng a ht- 

 I to the fringes. A series of small, black venulardots, beyond which the fringes are 

 cut with white. Fringes white-tipped at the anal angle. The o>^di nary spots are 

 marked by a black line in the cell. Secondaries even, smoky brown ; abroken black 

 terminal line, fringes partly white-tipped. Beneath, primaries brown, the termina 

 space overlaid by white scales; secondaries whitish, with a brown central lunule and a 

 broad outer band of brown scales, irregular, broken and diftuse. 



Expands 27 mm. = 1.08 inches. 



Habitat: Florida (Mrs. Slosson), i female only. 



Unlike any of the described species and will be separated generic- 

 ally when more material is at hand. The specimen before me is de- 



