412 ON SPECIES OF HADENA SMITH. 



ueath fuscous, hardly powdery, with au iudefiuite common darker shade 

 and discal spot. Head and thorax coucolorous. 



Expands 34 to 45 millimetres, 1.35 to 1.80 inches. 



Habitat.— Massachusetts, Connecticut, T^ew York, Illinois, Colorado, 

 Oregon. 



Widely distributed and easily recognizable by the prominent black 

 ringed claviform, the usually even, pale leather-brown color, and broad 

 primaries with rather obtuse apex and rounded outer margin. The 

 body is plump. The differences between the type and varietal forms 

 have been already pointed out. 



Luperina burgessi Morr. 



1874. Morr., Buff. Bull. 2, 109, Luceria. 



1875. Grt., Check List, Noct., Radena. 



1880. Grt., Bull. Bkln. Ent. Soc. in, 36, Hadena. 

 1882. Grt., New List, 27, Luceria. 



discors Grt. 



1881. Grt., Trans. Kans. Ac. Sci. vii, 65, Radena. 



Purplish, smoky brown, basal and s. t. spaces usually paler, often 

 with a distinct carneous tint. Basal line well marked, geminate, black. 

 T. a. line geminate, inner line faint, outer line distinct, black, outwardly 

 bent and angulated between the veins, more prominently below sub- 

 median vein. T. p. line geminate, outer line faint, inner line distinct, 

 dentate on veins, outwardly bent over cell, thence parallel to outer mar- 

 gin. S. t. line fine, narrow, interrupted, marked by yellowish scales 

 forming a more or less evident W-mark, preceded by black sagittate 

 marks and followed by black interspaceal lines reaching to the wavy 

 outer margin. A narrow pale line at base of fringes. A fine black lon- 

 gitudinal line at base and another on inner margin near that point. 

 Claviform rather small, black ringed, a black line from its apex to t. p. 

 line. Orbicular large, oblique, black ringed, coucolorous or with a 

 carneous tinge. Eeniform large, kidney shaped, outwardly pale, rather 

 indefinite, inwardly black margined. Secondaries white, with a very 

 narrow dusky margin, widest in the ? . Beneath, primaries powdery, 

 darkest toward apex ; an interrupted outer line, Secondaries white, 

 gray powdered toward costa where there is also a trace of the extra 

 median line. Head and thorax coucolorous, collar with a variably dis- 

 tinct black line. 



Expands 39 to 41 millimetres, l.GO to 1.65 inches. 



Habitat — Massachusetts (Morr.) Arizona, Nebraska. 



We have seen no enstern specimens; those from the west agree per- 

 fectly with the description. 



Luperina longula Grt. 

 1879. Grt., Bull. Geol. Surv., v, 204. Radena. 

 Dark ash gray to smoky fuscous, with the maculation indistinct; 

 transverse lines single. T. a. line irregularly dentate and angulate* at 



