8 Journal New York Entomological Society. [Vo\. xi. 



Hadena (Xylophasia) albiserrata, sp. nov. 



Head, thorax and primaries blackish over smoky, with sparse gray powderings, 

 giving the insect a rough appearance. Head with a black line across the front ; collar 

 with a black line across the middle. Thoracic tuftings distinct, tipped with gray. 

 Abdominal tuftings prominent. Primaries with all the maculation obscured, no con- 

 trasts save in the large, white powdered reniform and in the sharply defined white den-- 

 tate s. t. line, in which an obvious \V is marked on veins 3 and 4. Basal line marked 

 by black scales and a gray included space. T. a. line practically lost in one example-, 

 traceable in the other ; upright or nearly so, a little irregular, black, preceded by 

 white scales. T. p. line strongly outcurved over the cell, obliquely incurved belowr 

 grayish with a scarcely defined preceding line to the middle of the wing below the 

 reniform, then better marked, with a vague grayish cloud in the submedian interspace. 

 S. t. line as described, margined by black interspaceal dashes. A series of black 

 terminal lunules. A very narrow whitish line at the base of the fringes, which are 

 narrowly cut with white on the veins. Claviform indicated by black scales and a gray 

 shade, followed by a blackish shade to the t. p. line, connecting the median lines in 

 the submedian interspace. Orbicular oval, oblique, gray, with smoky center, not 

 sharply outlined. Reniform large, kidney-shaped, gray-powdered, with a smoky 

 filling in which is a white lunule. Secondaries whitish, powdery in the male ; smoky, 

 powdery in the female ; with a black terminal line, a darker outer shade and a discal 

 lunule in each case. Beneath, ashen gray, powdery, with an extra-median and sub- 

 terminal whitish shading and a dark discal spot. Expands I.64-I.76 inches = 41-44 

 mm. 



Habitat: Pullman, Washington, Sept. 19; Exper. Sta. No. 639; 

 C. V. Piper. 



One, somewhat ragged male, and one good female, from Professor 

 Piper. The male is the smaller, a little the better marked and has 

 whitish secondaries. The female is very obscure and looks powdery, 

 blackish, the white s. t. line only standing out in bold relief. The 

 relation is to H. versuta and the series in which there is a small W in 

 the s. t. line. 

 Hadena (Xylophasia) alberta, sp. nov. 



Cjround color dark, smoky red brown, varying in tint and appearing like a 

 smoky suffusion over a red-brown base. All the maculation is obscure, not contrast- 

 ing, a variable bluish-gray powdering on the veins and along the course of the median 

 lines. Basal line traceable, geminate, broken, extending to a short, slender, black 

 basal streak. T. a. line geminate, broken, irregular, as a whole outcurved, rarely 

 traceable for its entire course. T. p. line geminate, outer line obscure and even, 

 inner line narrow, black, lunulate, broadly outcurved over the cell and rather evenly 

 oblique to inner margin. In one example the included space is continuously bluish, 

 in one there is no blue at all and the other three are intermediates. S. t. line broken, 

 consisting of vague paler spots accompanied by darker shadings and forming in most 

 examples a traceable W; it may be almost entirely wantiog- A series of small black 

 terminal lunules at the base of the slightly scalloped fringes. Claviform traceable, 



