NEW SPECIES AND VARIETIES OF NORTH 

 AMERICAN LEPIDOPTERA 



NOCTUIDAE 



AGROTINAE 



Schinia cupes deserticola var. nov. (PL III, Fig. 16). 



Similar in maculation to the typical form from Texas but much paler in 

 color ; the head and thorax are whitish, lightly peppered with black, the ground 

 color of the primaries is a very light ochreous or cream-color shaded with 

 deeper ochreous terminally and without any of the smoky-brown color character- 

 istic of typical cupes; the outer dark border of secondaries is paler than in the 

 type form and the underside is less heavily shaded with black. 



Habitat: S. Arizona (Poling) (April); Palm Spgs., Riverside Co., Calif. 

 2 3,1 9 . Types, Coll. Barnes. 



We have had the 2 $ 's from Arizona in the collection for some 

 time; the receipt of a $ from the desert region of California con- 

 vinces us that we are dealing with a good geographical race which 

 evidently inhabits the hot, arid regions of the south-west. In the 

 coast region of California typical cupes is again found, redescribed 

 by Hy. Edwards under the name crotchi. 



Grotella citronella sp. nov. (PI. Ill, Fig 13). 



Head, thorax, and primaries lemon yellow, the latter crossed by two faint 

 black lines, tending to become punctiform; the inner line is slightly outwardly 

 inclined, forming a rather prominent projection above the inner margin and 

 accentuated in the cell by a dark dot; the outer line is well rounded about the 

 cell with a slight inward bend opposite the same, then inwardly oblique to 

 inner margin fairly close to t. a. line, the median space being only half as 

 wide as at the costa, the line accentuated by black dots opposite the cell, in 

 the submedian fold and on the inner margin. Secondaries blackish with pale 

 fringes. Beneath primaries blackish with lemon yellow costa and outer margin ; 

 secondaries pale ochreous. Expanse 19 mm. 



Habitat: Palm Springs, Riverside Co., Calif. 3 8, 2 9. Types, Coll. 

 Barnes. 



The species is very similar to spaldingi B. & McD., of which we 

 have also a single specimen from the same locality; it is however 

 much deeper yellow in color and has not such a prominent prow- 

 shaped process to the frontal protuberance as in spaldingi. 



