Dec. 1899.] Smith : New Noctuids and Notes. 231 



the patagiK covering the base of the wings. The primaries are in most cases quite 

 distinctly marked. There is a blackish basal streak which extends below the median 

 vein and reaches a little beyond the inner fourth of the wing. The tendency of this 

 streak is to become lost. The t. a. line when present is very narrow, black, but 

 shaded with smoky and emphasized by a few preceding white scales. It is strongly 

 bent outwardly, irregular in the interspaces and forms an acute tooth at the middle of 

 the submedian interspace, where it touches a short and prominent black dash. It is 

 then bent inward, so that it reaches the internal vein just about as far from the base 

 as is the inception of the line on the costa. The tendency of this line is also to dis- 

 appear and to leave only a black streak extending from the internal vein about one- 

 fourth from base to the middle of the submedian interspace. This portion of the line 

 is distinctly present in all the specimens seen by me. The t. p. line is not complete 

 in any specimen. It is traceable in one example as a lighter shading through the 

 darker powderings in the costal region. It is marked by black points below the cell 

 and by blackish scales which connect it with the short black dash already described 

 as attached to the tooth of the t. a. line. Below that point it is not traceable in any 

 specimen. The s. t. line is indicated only by two oblique triangular blackish or 

 brown shades. The first of these starts from a blackish point between veins 4 and 5 

 and reaches the external margin just below the apex. The second of these shades is 

 more brownish and starts from a point below vein 2, reaching the external margin 

 just below vein 4. The ordinary spots, at least the reniform, are traceable in most 

 cases. The orbicular is large, oval, oblique and is outlined by a few paler scales. 

 The reniform is large, broad, a little constricted- in the center, extending inward in- 

 feriorly, so that it touches and may become connected below to the orbicular. It is 

 marked inferiorly by a reddish shading and is outlined by whitish scales, which at the 

 latter margin are preceded and followed by a black shade that makes this part of the 

 wing characteristic. All the veins are somewhat marked by black scales. The sec- 

 ondaries are smoky brown, the fringes a little paler and with a pinkish tinge. Be- 

 neath smoky gray, powdery, the disc a little darker, both wings with discal spots. 

 Expanse, 1. 56 to 1. 80 inches^39 to 45 mm. 



Habitat : Glenwood Springs, Colo., March loth, 27th, April loth, 

 October. Dr. Barnes. 



There are five specimens under examination, both sexes being 

 represented. No two specimens are quite alike, yet that they belong 

 together is easily seen. In the best marked examples the characteristic 

 appearance is given by the blackish basal dash, by the very prominent 

 oblique portion of the t. a. line, by the blackish inferior margin of 

 the reniform surmounted by a brownish red shade and by the upper 

 of the two triangular shades marking the s. t. line. As to size, the 

 largest specimen happens to be a male. 

 Xylina itata, sp. nov. 



Ground color a dull ashen gray with very fine blackish powderings. All the 

 markings obscured. Head and thorax without ornamentation. The thoracic crest 

 prominent. Primaries with the markings extremely vague, in one specimen showing 



