JOURNAL 



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\^ol. VII. DECEMBER, 1899. No. 4. 



NEW NOCTUIDS AND NOTES. 



By John B. Smith, Sc. D. 

 Cobalos, gen. nov. 



Eyes naked, without lashes or lateral fringes, hemispherical. Head of good 

 size, but retracted ; front flat, broad, palpi short, not exceeding middle of front, termi- 

 nal joint small, a little oblique. Tongue strong. Antennae in the $ lengthily bi- 

 pectinated, in the 9 simple. Thorax sub-quadrate, rather short, collar and patagise 

 defined, vestiture somewhat loose, divergent, composed of scaly hair, forming no ob- 

 vious anterior tuftings and but a loose though well-marked basal tuft. Abdomen ex- 

 ceeding the anal angle in both sexes, conic in the 9 > ^ small dorsal tuft on the basal 

 segment, else untufted. I^egs well developed, tibia without claws or spines, spurs of 

 middle and posterior pair moderate in length, vestiture of under side fine woolly. 

 Wings moderate ; primaries abruptly widened on inner margin. Costa and outer 

 margin oblique, the former a little depressed at middle, apex acute. 



The genus is Hadeniform, allied to Hyppa and Valeria ; with 

 loose, more hairy vestiture and slighter build than either, the wing- 

 form, retracted broad head and very lengthily pectinated antennae 

 being further characteristic. The insect has more the appearance of 

 Eiicoptocnemis than anything else, but the tibiae are not spinose. 



Cobalos angelicus, sp. nov. 



Ground color light fawn brown with gray or white shadings or powderings. 

 Head and thorax without definite maculation. Primaries with the median space 

 somewhat more even, deeper brown than the rest of the wing, s. t. space and apex 

 bluish white. Basal line marked on the costa only. T. a. line geminate, narrow, 

 brown, the inner line vague, included space more or less white filled, not well marked, 

 more or less broken, widely outcurved, inwardly dentate on the veins. T. p. line 

 geminate, narrow, brown, the outer portion less obvious, only a little irregular, not 

 much curved over cell and very decidedly incurved in the sub-median interspace, in- 

 cluded space white. S. t. line irregular, yellowish, defined by the brown terminal 

 space except at apex, and partly by a brown s. t. shade which fills the s. t. space on 

 costa, then breaks and starts again, broadening gradually to the hind margin where it 

 is aJmost half the space. On veins 3 and 4 white rays accompany an indentation of 



