JOURNAL 



TOfId ]9opfe Qntoraologiral iSoriFtg^ 



Vol. XT. MARCH, 1903. No. 1. 



NEW NOCTUIDS FOR 1903, No. 2, WITH NOTES 

 ON MAMESTRA AND SCOTOGRAMMA. 



Bv John B. Smith, Sc.D. 



The first paper of this series is in the Canadian Entomologist, Vol. 

 XXXV, January, 1903, p. 9, and six species are there described. The 

 present paper contains descriptions of species and notes on a number 

 of others — chiefly Mamestra and Scotogranwia. It happens not in- 

 frequently that, after a genus has been monographed, material accumu- 

 lates that makes studies possible that were not so when the original 

 work was done ; so in the two genera mentioned I have accumulated 

 material that enables me to give figures of genitalic structures of species 

 not in my possession when I first wrote on them ; some corrections in 

 the synonymy may also be made on the same occasion for these 

 genera. 



Moma geminata, sp. nov. 



Ground color of head, thorax and primaries a clear bluish-green, the maculation 

 black and contrasting. Head with a black line across the front. Collar with a black 

 central spot. Patagia and disc with scattered black scales. The scale tuft on the 

 basal segment of abdomen black-tipped ; segments blackish, edged with white. 

 Primaries with all the usual markings present, broken, black, contrasting. Basal line 

 geminate, outer portion powdery and marked over the costal area only ; inner portion 

 more prominent, curved inward to a basal black dot. A black spot on inner margin 

 near base. An irregular black spur extends from base through the submedian inter- 

 space to the angle of t. a. line. T. a. line geminate, broken, inner line best marked 

 by an angulate portion in the middle of the wing; outer line best marked on costa and 

 internal margin, else powdery. T. p. line geminate, broken ; the inner portion com- 

 posed of two main portions, one opposite the cell, the other opposite the inner angle 

 where it is broad, lunate and has an inward tooth ; the outer portion is most promi- 



