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SOME APPARENTLY NEW NOCTUIDiE IN THE 

 COLLECTION OF THE BRITISH MUSEUM. 



BY HENRY EDWARDS. 



During- my stay in London, two years ai»o, I was enabled, 

 through the kindness of Mr. A. G. Butler, to examine the large 

 number of Noctuae and Geometridae collected some years ago in 

 Southern Oregon and Northern California by Lord Walsingham, 

 and I recognized as entirely new to me, and I believe to science, the 

 following species. I have little doubt that a more lengthened and 

 careful examination tlian I was able to make would result in the dis- 

 covery of many other uncharacterized forms, particularly among 

 the Geometridte and Pyralidae. Had I returned to London the fol- 

 lowing year, as it was my intention to do, I should have taken with 

 me some types for comparison, and would have done my best to 

 work up the whole series, but that pleasure has been denied me, and 

 I therefore think it best to place on record the descriptions of those 

 I did examine. 



Herrichia cervina n. sp. Primaries reddish fawn color, ochreous at the 

 base, witli median band of a darker shade, narrow on internal marg;in, much 

 widening on costa and enclosing the round reniform and subreniform, which 

 are both bordered with ochreous. Behind the median band is a broad paler 

 shade, clouded with darker fawn color and encroached upon by two sharp 

 teeth proceeding from the brown submarginal band. The paler shades are 

 mottled with darker fawn color. Secondaries dusky fawn color, with the 

 fringes of both wings reddish fawn. Thorax and abdomen concolorous. 

 Underside of primaries dusky fawn, costa and margin reddish, with an indis- 

 tinct median waved line, which is continued on the secondaries, the ground 

 color of which is redder than that of the upper wings. Discal spot distinct. 

 Abdomen, thorax and legs reddish fawn. Exp. wings 20 mm. 



Four specimens. Mt. Shasta district. 



I place this insect in Mr. Grote's genus, as it appears to me to 

 be, at any rate, very closely allied to it, bearing, as it does, a strong 

 superficial resemblance to the w^ell-known //. nwllissima. 



Annaphila casta n. sp. Allied to A. diva Gr. Primaries brownish black 

 at the base and for about one-half of the wing, the brown space being mot- 

 tled with bluish scales. The dark half of the wing is interrupted quite ob- 

 liquely behind by a broad, clear white band, encroached upon anteriorly in 

 the middle by a small brown point from the brown basal space. Otherwise 

 the anterior edge of the white band is quite even and runs directly from the 

 exterior third of the external margin to the costa. The posterior margin of 

 the band is clouded at the external angle with dusky. In the middle is a large 

 circular brown spot, and a smaller one above it, triangular in shape, repre- 

 senting the reniform and subreniform. The apex of the wing is broadly 



