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Beneath primaries smoky, secondaries whitish with smoky sprinkling and a 

 small discal dash. Expanse 37 mm. 



Habitat: Central Park, L. I., N. Y. (April) 2 S- Types, Coll. Barnes. 



We recently received the types with other Noctuid material from 

 the Doll Collection and take pleasure in naming the species after this 

 well known collector; we believe the species has been known to East- 

 ern collectors for some time but there seems to be no available name, 

 and it is the first Eastern record for a species of this genus. In 

 appearance it superficially resembles a dark Acronycta distans Grt. 

 but the hairy nature of the palpal and thoracic vestiture as well as a 

 reduced proboscis render the reference to Mcrolonche advisable; the 

 antennae resemble those of spinea Grt. with the slight lateral projec- 

 tions reduced to mere stubs, giving a distinctly lamellate appearance. 



Leucocnemis variabilis sp. nov. (PI. XVII, Figs. 13, 14). 



9 . Primaries dark gray sprinkled with white and shaded slightly with 

 ochreous; t a. and t. p. lines wanting; orbicular a long decumbent oval, white 

 with dark center; reniform small, irregular, whitish; claviform indistinct, out- 

 lined in dark, longer than orbicular; s. t. line close to edge of wing, white, 

 very irregularly dentate, preceded below apex by several blackish streaks ; a 

 white terminal line followed by a black line at base of fringes; these are long, 

 whitish with the terminal portion checkered with black. Secondaries pale 

 smoky ochreous. Beneath pale, primaries tinged with smoky along costa and 

 outer margin. 



S . Much paler than 9 as a rule, almost whitish with obsolete macula- 

 tion. Expanse 20 mm. 



Habitat: Olancha, Inyo Co., Calif. 11 ^,16 9. Types, Coll. Barnes. 



The species is extraordinarily variable; our description is drawn 

 up from a well marked 9 but we have all manner of intergrades to 

 almost immaculate white specimens with the merest traces of dark 

 shades ; in general the S 's are decidedly paler and more immaculate 

 than the 9 's and of the series before us only one 5 specimen 

 shows a maculation in agreement with the above description. The 

 palest specimens still show traces of the dark terminal spots on 

 fringes and a slight dark apical shade. 



Stilbia apposita sp. nov. (PI. XVI, Fig. 8). 



Head and thorax dark gray, the latter with small divided mesothoracic 

 tuft tipped with blackish; abdomen smooth, smoky ochreous; primaries dark 



