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place this species close to l!J. dorslsignatana Clemens, which it rather 

 resembles in size, shape, and general robust appearance, superficially 

 much like a moderate sized noctuid. 



EUCOSMA RUSTICANA, new species. 



Head, palpi, and thorax, shades of brown; face, inner and upper 

 sides of palpi, lig-ht fawn brown; lower and outer edges of palpi and 

 ends of scales on top of head, dark smoky brown; thorax and patagia 

 light fawn, overlaid, especially anteriorl}^, with darker brown. Fore- 

 wing the same shades of brown as above, the costal half dark smokj^ 

 or blackish In'own, the dorsal half and outer margin light fawn l)rown. 

 The shades are not sharpl}^ divided and differ more or less in different 

 specimens. The costa is darkest, and is marked by nine or ten black 

 dots; between those on outer half are geminated streaks of a lighter 

 shade. Below the costa the dark shades are in irregular horizontal 

 lines from base to beyond end of cell, the dark color is rather concen- 

 trated at end of cell, and at the upper end is a small ovate pale line 

 inclosing a black dot. The ocellic space is large, pale fawn, with one 

 horizontal dark streak on its upper side in the male and two streaks 

 in the female. Before this spot, running obliquel}' inward toward 

 dorsal margin, is a line of dark scales. The dark shades almost 

 entirely overlay the light shades on the dorsal half of the female from 

 l)ase to ocellic spot. Apex marked with a small rectangular pale fawn 

 dot, with black dots before and below it. Cilia pale fawn, with three 

 or four darker dots on upper half. Hindwing very dark smoker brown; 

 cilia pale fawn, with a slighth' darker line at its base. Under sides of 

 both wings much like the upper sides, but the shades are more diffuse. 

 Abdomen dark brown, anal tuft light brown. Legs pale brown, first 

 and second pairs and tarsi of third, annulated with dark blackish 

 ])rown. The male costal fold is rather narrow and not (pdte half the 

 length of the wing. 



Six specimens: Ti-yon, North Carolina, Fiske, May 13 and 22, 

 August 1; Kerrville, Texas, Doctor Barnes; Algonquin, Illinois, 

 June 4, Doctor Nason. 



i^ofypes. — Cat. No. 82-14, U. S. Nat. Mus., and in \\\\ collection. 



EUCOSMA FISKEANA, new species. ^ 



Head, thorax, and palpi cinereous ])rown, palpi with black tip of 

 third segment visil)le, although scales of second joint project beyond 

 it below, scales of palpi shaded with dark ))rown at tips and ati oblique 

 streak of same close to base on outer side. 



Forewing ashy gra}' with dark brown fascia and spots. Basal area 

 dark brown, overlaid with gray above dorsum, and strigulated with 

 darker transverse lines, covers inner fourth of costa, angles outward 

 to middle of wing, thence obliquely inward to dorsum, between latter 

 and middle slightly indented. Beyond is an irregular oblique fascia 



