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in upper half, strongly bent inward in submedian fold and then perpendicular 

 to inner margin ; outwardly this line is bordered with ochreous, forming a more 

 or less obvious blotch on costa; orbicular and renifomi obscure, blackish with 

 an ochreous streak between them; fringes dusky. Secondaries pale smoky 

 basally, darker terminally with indistinct curved dark postmedian line and 

 large discal spot. Beneath pale smoky, darker in the 9 's, with the maculation 

 of upper side faintly repeated and the discal spots forming more or less obvious 

 ringlets. Expanse 20-25 mm. 



Habitat: Eureka, Utah (July) (Spalding), type; Redington, Ariz., Pal- 

 merlee, Ariz.; Camp Baldy, S. Bern. Mts., Calif. 7 5, 2 9. Types, Coll. 

 Barnes. 



The species is almost an exact counterpart of xantliocrypta in 

 maculation but the palpi are somewhat longer and the proboscis obso- 

 lete; we cannot but feel, however, that there is probably a close rela- 

 tionship between the two species and that the present arrangement 

 which would place them in different subfamilies is quite artificial ; 

 it is very probable that the conception of the Schoenobiinae must be 

 somewhat revised and that it will be impossible to place all genera 

 under this group simply because they show a reduced proboscis. 



NOCTUELIA RUFOFASCIALIS Stcph. 



This name which was proposed for fascialis Haw. (ncc Hiibner ) 

 (1834, 111. Brit. Ent. Haust., IV, 33) must supercede thalialis Wlk. ; 

 the species is figured by Wood (Ind. Ent. PI. 27, Fig. 790) and is 

 credited correctly to N. America by Stephens in his List Lep. Brit. 

 Mus., 1850, p. 309; Sir Geo. Hampson tells us that Haworth's speci- 

 men exists in the British museum labelled "fascialis n. sp. I bought 

 this from Mr. Knight as British" and that it is undoubtedly the same 

 species as thalialis. 



NocTUELiA MINIMA Dyar. 



This species, described in Ins. Insc. Menst., V, 132, is, to judge 

 by the description, the same as Pyrausta conimortalis Grt. (C. Ent., 

 XIII, 232) ; the reference to Noctuclia rather than to Pyrausta seems 

 preferable. 



NOCTUELIA PALMALIS Sp. nOV. (PI. XXIII, Fig. 5). 



Palpi white at base, gray laterally; head and thorax dark gray mixed 

 with white and ruddy scaling; primaries ruddy brown scaled with white at base 

 and broadly on outer side of t. a. line and inner side of t. p. line; t. a. line 

 upright, t. p. line slightly irregular, nearly perpendicular from costa to vein 5, 



