FIFTY NEW SPECIES AND VARIETIES 

 SYNTOMIDAE 



Lycomorpita splendens sp. nov. ( Plate I, fig. 8. ) 



Antennae black ; head, thorax, abdomen and primaries deep bhie black, 

 patagia and secondaries crimson, latter with a narrow costal edging of black 

 and with blue-black fringes. Beneath as above, primaries with slight crimson 

 scaling in submedian fold. E.xpanse, 26 mm. 



Habitat:— Euveka. Utah (6, VIII, 10) (T. Spalding). iS. 

 Type, Coll. Barnes. 



This very distinct and beautiful species agrees in venation with 

 Lycomorpha, has however the antennae strongly bipectinate as in 

 Ctcnitcha or Scepsis. In wing shape it ajiproaches fithjciis. 



LITHOSIANAE 



Cramridia suffusa sp. nov. (Plate II, fig. 16.) 



Head yellow, thorax white shaded with smoky brown, abdomen gray-brown 

 with pale yellow anal tuft in $ ; primaries white, more or less suffused with 

 smoky-brown, basal portion of costa deep brown ; secondaries rather deep 

 smoky-brown, paler along inner margin, fringes white. Beneath smoky-brown, 

 palest on inner half of secondaries ; fringes pale. Expanse, 26-32 mm. 



Habitat:— -San Diego, Calif. (25th April). 11 S S, 2 9 9. 

 Types, Coll. Barnes. 



May easily be separated from casta and ccphalica by the deep 

 smoky secondaries and the more or less suffused primaries. This is 

 probably Ilampson's ab. 2 of casta ; it appears to us to be a good and 

 constant species or at least a race. 



NOCTUIDAE 



ScHiNiA argentifascia sp. nov. Plate II, fig. i.) 



Palpi red-brown, front ochreous ; head and thorax scaled with a niixtiue 

 of red-brown and white scales, the former predominating; abdomen ochreous; 

 primaries olivaceous, heavily scaled with cinnamon-brown, especially in sub- 

 terminal area ; basal line indicated by a white spot on costa ; basal area to t. a. 



