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NOCTUIDAE 

 AGROTINAE 



ScHiNiA TERRiFiCA sp. nov. (PI. XVIII, Fig. 14). 



Fore tibiae with one large inner claw and a couple of spines and several 

 (2-4) smaller outer claws; head and thorax whitish-ochreous, the patagia 

 slightly shaded with pale olivaceous ; primaries with basal area light pink, 

 bounded outwardly by the slightly deeper t. a. line which is strongly bulging 

 on median vein ; median space pale whitish ochreous crossed by a broad oliva- 

 ceous brown median shade which occupies most of this space at inner margin 

 and contains below costa a diffuse blackish reniform spot; outer margin of 

 median space forms t. p. line which is not otherwise indicated, being evenly 

 sinuate with veins somewhat dentated by white markings ; subterminal space 

 pink, this color extending through the terminal interspaces to outer margin, 

 the veins themselves being broadly bordered with whitish, giving a marked 

 striate appearance ; fringes checkered white and olive-brown ; secondaries white, 

 shaded with smoky at base and along inner margin and with a broad terminal 

 dark band, broken somewhat by whitish shades with a faint pink sprinkling ; a 

 large diffuse discal spot. Beneath whitish, shaded outwardly with pink and 

 smoky and with large discal spots on all wings. Expanse 33 mm. 



Habitat: Colorado (Oslar, Bruce). 4^,1 $. Types, Coll. Barnes. 



This species has been for years in our collection under the name 

 of gloriosa Stkr. ; a recent study of the type (which we figure on PI. 

 XVIII, Fig. 15) shows that this latter species is very closely related 

 to sanguinea Geyer of which it may be merely a form or race; our 

 Colorado species is a much paler and more diffusely marked form. 



Hemigrotella gen. nov. (Type HemigrotcUa argenteo-striata sp. 

 nov.). 

 Palpi oblique, short, heavily scaled ; squammation of head and thorax 

 smooth, scaly; front somewhat roundedly protuberant but without tubercle; 

 fore tibia with strong terminal claw, unspined ; mid tibia with inner row of 

 large spines; hind tibia with single spine between the spurs; venation normal; 

 primaries long, narrow, costal and inner margins subparallel. 



H. ARGENTEOSTRIATA sp. nOV. (PI. XVII, Fig. 15). 



Palpi, head and thorax white, patagia tinged with yellow ; abdomen light 

 gray ; primaries yellow-ochre with a silver costal stripe narrowing towards 

 apex and three broad silver stripes, one from base to middle of wing below 

 cell, the second from cell to near outer margin, the third, smaller, triangular, 



