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NOTODONTA GRAHAMI, new species 



Male. — Head, collar, and thorax fuscous, the head and collar 

 thickly mottled with grayish hairs; a large light buff patch on thorax, 

 edged with cinnamon brown and crossed by a similar line. Abdo- 

 men above light drab, suffused with prout's brown; underneath 

 whitish. Fore wing: Basal area, except costa blackish brown, out- 

 wardly finely edged by faint brownish scaling and a black line out- 

 curved from subcostal, slightly inbent on vein 1, originating from an 

 inbent black line on costa; an antemedial small brownish spot below 

 cell, crossed by a black line; costal margin to above discocellular 

 irrorated with white; medial space from below cell to subcostal 

 white thinly irrorated with blackish brown; a thick black line on 

 discocellular, edged with pure white; a narrow blackish brown shade 

 outcurved beyond cell and inbent to middle of inner margin, fol- 

 lowed by a finely wavy black line slightly outcurved on costa, 

 vertical below vein 2, outwardly edged with brownish and followed 

 by a blackish brown suffusion to termen except from vein 4 to apex 

 which is dark drab; traces of small subterminal black spots. Hind 

 wing white, the inner margin drab; a fine dark postmedial line with 

 darker streaks on veins; a broad subterminal blackish brown shade, 

 fainter toward anal angle; a similar terminal line. Wings below 

 pale smoke gray, both crossed by a dark postmedial line; fore wing 

 except inner margin faintly darker irrorated. 



Expanse, male, 57 mm. ; female, 65 mm. 



Habitat. — Mount Omei, Szechuen, China. 



Type.— Chi. No. 33420, U.S.N.M. 



Named in honor of the Rev. D. C. Graham. 



The species is closely allied to N. moltrechtii Oberthuer = iV. Icot' 

 shubeji, Sheljuzko described from the southern Ussuri district. 



CERURA NICETIA, new species 



Male. — Palpi, head, collar, and thorax black with a few white hairs. 

 Abdomen above with alternate deep mouse gray and black narrow 

 bands; anal hairs white; underneath white with black bands. Fore 

 wing with the base and outer area drab gray ; a small black spot near 

 base of cell, followed by a series of spots on veins; a vertical anteme- 

 dial black line, the space beyond thickly irrorated with black and 

 white, limited by the black medial line which is slightly inbent to 

 below cell, then outbent to inner margin near postmedial; a short 

 black line on lower discocellular; a fine deep ventral gray line from 

 cell across base of vein 2, parallel wdth medial line; postmedial line 

 very fine, double, deep neutral gray, incurved opposite cell, very 

 deeply outangled on veins 4, 3 and 2, followed by a thick black line 

 parallel to it, very fine and merely dentate from vein 4 to vein 2, 

 below 2 incurved and more heavily marked; this line is followed from 



