54 PSYCHE [June 



NEW SPECIES OF NOCTUIDS FOR 1904. NO. 2. 



BY JOHN B. SMITH, SC. D., NEW BRUNSWICK, N. J. 

 Xylophasia unita, n. sp. 



Ground color dull ashen gray, the maculation well defined and black. Head mottled, 

 front with alternate white and blackish lines. Collar pale at base ; a black transverse line 

 above the middle, then smokj to a gray tip. Patagia black edged and with an inner sub- 

 marginal line. Disc of thorax powdery. Primaries with a black longitudinal line at base, 

 extending almost to the t. a. line, somewhat diffuse inferiorly. There is also a blackish 

 shading along inner margin. Basal line geminate, blackish, broken. T. a. line geminate, 

 outer part a little broader and blacker, even throughout ; a little outcurved in the interspaces, 

 outcurved over cell and a little incurved below ; inner line blackish, lunulate, best 

 marked below vein 3 ; outer line even, slender, smoky ; included space gray. S. t. line nar- 

 row, whitish, forming an obvious W, preceded by sagittate black dashes at the middle and 

 followed by a smoky shading. There is a series of small black terminal lunules. The 

 median shade is from costa, outwardly oblique, darkening the space between the ordinary 

 spots, inwardly angled below the reniform and running close to the t. p. line. A black bar 

 connects the median lines just above vein i. Claviform moderate, narrowly outlined in 

 black, smoky. Orbicular large, oval, oblique, not well defined, gray. Reniform moderate 

 in size, kidney-shaped, gray, without definite outline. Secondaries dull whitish with a faint 

 yellowish tinge, becoming smoky outAvardly, fringes whitish ; a narrow median line. 

 Beneath, primaries smoky gray, even, with a partial outer line; secondaries whitish, pow- 

 dery, with a smoky discal lunule and a narrow, well marked extra median line. 



Expands 1.56 inches ^ 39 mm. 



Habitat:— Calgary, Alberta, Head of Pine Creek, June 26 ; F. H. Wolley Dod. 



One female, in good condition. The species resembles and is allied \.o ct'iiefacia • but 

 differs in the uniform bluish ash gray, the even black bar connecting the median lines and 

 in the clearer better defined markings. 



I have another female example from Corvallis, Oregon, which I refer here with consid- 

 erable doubt. It may come within the range of variation ; but more material is needed for 

 positive decision. 



Xylophasia enigra, n. sp. 



Ground color a deep smoky brown, without contrasting maculation of any kind. Head 

 without maculation. Collar with an obscure black median line. Thorax heavily built, ves- 

 titure thick, an admixture of gray scales along the margins of the patagia. Abdominal 

 tuftings well marked. Primaries with all the markings just traceable : the basal and median 

 lines geminate a little darker, included space a little gray. S. t. line a little paler than the 

 ground, forms a very small W, and is variably emphasized by preceding and following 

 shades. There is an obscure, diffuse median shade, oblique from the costa between the 

 ordinary spots then close to the t. p. line, darkening a little the outer pe^rtion of tlie median 



