Dec. 1903.] Smith: New Noctuids for 1903. I'.ll 



minal area paler ; secondaries whitish with a smoky discal lunule and extramedian 

 line. E.xpands, 1. 08-1. 16 inches 1^ 27-29 mm. 



Habitat : Doble, California, in early August. 



Two good females, collected by Mr. George S. Hutson in the Col- 

 orado desert. The species resembles olivacea in general appearance, 

 but has the niaculation much more diffuse. The paler area just before 

 the t. a. line also seems to be characteristic, none of the five examples 

 of olivacea now before me showing any tendency that way. It is likely 

 to be found in other of the desert localities. 

 Fishia vinela, sp. nov. 



Ground color ashen gray, marked and dusted with black and brown. Head with 

 a black frontal line. Collar with a black median transverse line ; patagia with a black 

 line through the center ; disc gray and brown powdered. Primaries apparently have 

 the lower third of the wing darker, the maculation over the costal area obscure and 

 not well defined. An irregular, narrow black basal streak, which does not reach 

 the t. a. line. A black streak along the internal margin, reaching to the t. a. line 

 but not quite to the base. T. a. line geminate, incomplete, marked as a pair of 

 oblique dusky streaks on the costa, nearly lost in the middle of the wing and again 

 marked by a long outcurve below the submedian vein. T. p. line obscure, dentate, 

 geminate, the outer part lost over the cell, the inner portion slender, very faint from 

 the costa to vein 3, below which it is black, the lunule in the submedian interspace 

 best marked and followed by a whitish shading. S. t. line is a line of pale dots in a 

 series of black or blackisli interspaceal streaks which are most obvious over the hind 

 angle and above the middle. There is a narrow blackish terminal line, beyond which 

 the smoky fringes are based by a narrow yellow line. The outer margin is obviously 

 though not deeply scalloped and the hind angle a little retreating. Orbicular outlined 

 in blackish, a black line bordering it below and extending across the median space to 

 the t. p. line. Orbicular oval, a little oblique, moderate in size, obscurely defined. 

 Reniform large, upright, broad kidney-shaped, obscurely and incompletely pale 

 ringed, not otherwise defined. Secondaries white, semi-transparent, with a blackish 

 terminal line; veins smoky ; a reddish flush along inner margin. Beneath whitish, 

 powdery, most so along costal area and toward apices ; a dusky median line and a 

 small discal spot. Expands I.60-I.80 inches = 40-45 mm. 



Habitat: Denver, Colorado, October 3 (Oslar) ; Glenwood 

 Springs, Colorado, September and October (Barnes). 



Three male examples in good condition are before me at present. 

 Dr, Barnes has others and it is probable that specimens are in collec- 

 tions mingled with Hadena evclina French. With the latter species 

 this new form agrees in general type of maculation and wing-form ; 

 but the primaries are a little narrower, the ornamentation is more 

 confused, powdery and paler, while the secondaries are almost white. 

 As a whole the species is smaller and less robust than its Californian 

 ally. 



