NOCTUIDAE 
SCHINIA BRUNNEA sp. noy. (PI. III, Figs. 7-9). 
Palpi, head, and thorax brown; primaries brown, shaded with pale 
ochreous and slightly tinged with olivaceous; basal space to t. a. line rather 
even brown with a very slight admixture of pale scaling; t. a. line formed by 
the outer margin of this basal space, but slightly darker than the space itself, 
bent outward from costa to below cell then almost perpendicular to inner mar- 
gin; inner half of median space next t. a. line pale ochreous, the palest portion 
of the wing, outer half shaded heavily with brown with traces of a diffuse broad 
median shade, most noticeable as a dark patch on costa above reniform; orbicu- 
lar oval, olivaceous, with slight traces of black marginal line; claviform similar 
to 6rbicular, resting on t. a. line; reniform semiquadrate, outlined laterally with 
black; t. p. line evenly sinuate, indistinct at costa, outlined in deep brown above 
inner margin; s. t. line pale, irregular, angled below costa, with strong inward 
angle on vein 5 almost reaching t. p. line, excurved opposite cell and again 
more strongly between veins 2 and 5, narrowing at-inner margin; subterminal 
area brown with slight bluish scaling in the bulge between veins 2 and 5; 
terminal space paler; a broken black terminal line; fringes brown, cut with 
blackish outwardly. Secondaries pale ochreous with a broad black border, suf- 
fused outwardly with brownish; prominent black discal spot; fringes pale; 
slight black scaling at base and along inner margin. Beneath, primaries ochreous 
shaded with brownish along costa and outwardly; orbicular, reniform and 
claviform prominently black, a diffuse black shade above the tornus, traces of 
t. p. and s. t. lines at costa; terminal line and fringes as above; secondaries 
ochreous shaded with pinkish brown along costa and outer margin, with promi- 
nent black discal spot and dark shade patch on outer margin near tornus; one 
or two black streaks on inner margin near base of wing. Expanse 23 mm. 
Hasitat. Loma Linda, S. Bern. Co., Calif. (Oct. 8-15) (Pilate); San 
Diego, Calif. (Ricksecker) 16¢’s, 82’s. Types, Coll. Barnes. 
The species approaches tertia Grt. in general type of maculation. 
It is extremely variable; some specimens before us are so suffused 
with brown as to render all the maculation very indistinct, others, 
notably ¢’s, are more contrasting in coloration than our types, the 
brown being deeper, especially in subterminal area where the bluish 
scaling at times is quite prominent; the brown color may vary from 
pale ochreous to deep olivaceous and the maculation of the under side 
may be very distinct or almost wanting except the black discal spots. 
Our types represent specimens midway between the two extremes. 
