Mar. 1899.] Smith : On New Species of Moths. 41 



Males of eight species are now in hand and will be figured when op- 

 portunity serves. It will be noted that phoca, unifonnis, i/ifiiscafa, 

 hitcola and discolor agree very closely in general type while sufficiently 

 dissimilar to avoid confusion. The harpes are all a little bent and in 

 each case there are two corneous claspers ; the inner longer and more 

 dense in texture, the outer nearer the tip, lying under the other and 

 much lighter in color. 



The sketch of subrnarina on PI. XXII, Fig. 17, Proc. U. S. Nat. 

 Mus. , XII, shows an essentially different structure in which both harpe 

 and clasper are concerned. There is a distinct tendency toward some 

 of the species of Mamestra ; but indeed the other type finds almost 

 equally close relatives in that genus. 



The structures in 5. deusa and S. inegiei-a differ from the others in the 

 widest possible way, while so closely alike that I was strongly inclined to 

 consider the species identical on this character alone. Yet they differ 

 so much in superficial appearance that I have risked a new name, par- 

 ticularly as the localities in which the two species were found are 

 widely separated and thus far no great range of variation has been 

 noted in the species. I have no males of the described perplexa, con- 

 cifina and umbrosa, nor of sedilis and conjugata described in this paper. 

 All these forms are related to each other more nearly than to any of 

 the other species, and it is passing strange that females should be so 

 much the more commonly found. 



Scotogramma conjugata, sp. nov. 



Ground color ashen gray powdered with smoky and blackish. Palpi reddish 

 brown ; the head darker brown in front. Collar with a central black line, below 

 which it is smoky to the head, the tip being very pale gray. The patagire are crossed 

 by an oblique black line and the posterior tuft is also black marked. Primaries with 

 all the marking fairly visible. The basal space is grayer than the rest of the wing, 

 and is rather larger than usual, because of the distance of the t. a. line from the base. 

 The basal line is black, .single, very distinct, outcurved between the veins and reach- 

 ing the s. m. vein. T. a. line single, black, a little diffuse, evenly oblique to the s. 

 m. interspace ; then with a slight incurve to the inner margin. T. p. line blackish, 

 single, lunulate, followed by rather feebly marked pale lunules, strongly bent over the 

 cell and then rather deeply incurved below. A smoky shade on the costa marks the 

 beginning of the s. t. line ; but beyond this point it is lost in the uniform gray of the 

 space beyond the t. p. line. There is a vague shading between the veins in the ter- 

 minal space in one of the specimens before me. The orbicular is black-ringed and 

 extends the full distance between the median lines, so that they are completely con- 

 nected. As a whole the median space is a trifle darker than any other portion of the 

 wing. The ordinary spots are grayish, incompletely outlined, of moderate size and 



