156 Psyche [Oct.-Dec. 



NOTES ON NOCTUID^ WITH DESCRIPTIONS OF SOME 

 NEW SPECIES (LEP.). 



By Wm. M. Barnes, M. D. and A. AY. Lindsey, Ph. D., 

 Decatur, Illinois. 



AGROTIN.li;, 



Prochloridea madonna n. sp. 



Head and thorax clothed with a mixture of gra}^ whitish and 

 mixed hairs and scales. Palpi dark gray outside, whitish within. 

 Antennae ciliate in the $ . Ahdomen shining grayish, touched with 

 clay yellow. 



Primaries with vestiture mixed l)lack, whitish and gray scak^s 

 in ahout equal parts, with two broad, light brown stripes radiating 

 from base of cell toward apex and oval angle respectively. These 

 stripes are sometimes scarcely visible, l)ut are usually quite evident. 

 T. a. line irregular, oblique, with a prominent tooth in costal 

 region, one on cubital stem and one on anal vein; usually very 

 vague but someties well marked; single, pale gray, marked on 

 costa by one or two blackish dots. T. p. line also pale gray, pre- 

 ceded by a fine dark shade, outwardly curved around end of cell 

 and rather even except on this l^end, where it is finely dentate; 

 near the inner margin it curves basad. Orbicular and reniform 

 very vague, sometimes evident as dark central spots surrounded 

 by pale margins. In the terminal space there is a variable number 

 of short longitudinal black dashes between the veins. Fringes Avith 

 alternating light and dark patches of a "pepper and salt" appear- 

 ance similar to the primaries. Secondaries white with a slight 

 sprinkling of dark scales in the outer third, usually localized on 

 the veins, and a similar terminal line. Fringes white with a few 

 dark scales. Female similar. Expanse 31 to 33 mm. 



Holotype $ , allotype, 13 paratypes S and 3 paratypes 2 from 

 Olancha, Inyo Co., Cal., June 8-30, July, Aug., in coll. Barnes. 



Madonna is smaller and more grayish than the three females in 

 the type series of modesta B. & McD,, and the median line of the 

 secondaries is very rarely suggested. In spite of these difi'erences 

 we should not be surprised to find tliat it is only a race of the 



