NO. 1140. NORTH AMERICAN NOCTUIDAE— SMITH AND DYAR. 1 81 



past labeled specimens, with a query, as spinea, which I did not know 

 p()sitiv(^ly until now. 



I have three specimens from the Sierra Nevada Mountains in Califor- 

 nia which are probably referable to this species, but their condition is 

 not such that I would care to say this positively. They are certainly 

 neitlier spinea nor Inpini, and I am not yet ready to admit another 



si)ecies. 



HARRISIMEMNA Grote. 



Uarrlsimemna Grotk, Trnns. Am. Ent. Soc, 1873, IV, p. 293. 



A somewhat slight-bodied form with long, prominently tufted abdo- 

 men, strongly tufted thorax, large trigonate wings, and a somewhat 

 retracted head. 



Head moderate in size, distinct, but not prominent, front slightly 

 convex, but not bulging. Eyes large, narrowly separated, naked, 

 without lashes. Ocelli distinct and not concealed. Tongue moderate, 

 suitable for feeding, but not strong. Palpi short and weak, hardly 

 reaching to the end of the projecting scales of the front. Antennae 

 very shortly pectinated in the male, simple in the female. 



Thorax rather small, (luadrate, convex, thickly clothed with scales 

 and scaly hair, which form an enormous bushy, posterior tuft; collar and 

 patagiae distinct. Legs slender, short for the insect, but of normally 

 noctuid proportion to each other. Unarmed except for the usual si)urs, 

 which are of very moderate size. 



Abdomen (iyliudrical, much exceeding the anal angle of the second- 

 aries in both sexes, much stouter in the female. In both sexes with a 

 series of dorsal tufts, of which that on the fourth segment is enormously 

 exaggerated. 



Primaries trigonate, the apices somewhat drawn out in the male, 

 rectangular in the female. In the former inner and outer margin are 

 almost of a length, while the costa is at least one-half longer; in the 

 latter the outer margin is distinctly shorter than the inner, and the 

 costa is hardly one-third longer than the latter. The venation is nor- 

 mally noctuidous. 



Secondaries proportionate, vein 5 much weaker than the others and 

 arising from the cross vein well removed from 4, but nearer to it than to 6. 



The only species thus far known is: 



HARRISIMEMNA TRISIGNATA Walker. 



(Plates XV, fig. 6, male anteuua; XVI, fig. 6, venation; XVII, fig. 4, legs; XIX, 



fig. 9, male genitalia.) 



Grammophora triaignata Walker, Cat. Brit. Mus , Het., 1856, IX, p. 29. 

 Harriaimemna trisupiata Grote, Trans. Am. Ent. Soc, 1873, IV, p. 293; 111. 



Essay, 1882, p. 49, pi. i, tig. 3. 

 Notodonta aexguttata Harris, Ent. Corresp., 1869, p. 174, figs. 24, 25.— Grote, 



Trans. Am. Ent. Soc, 1873, IV, p. 293, pr. syn. 



Ground color of head and primaries white, with either a creamy or 

 bluish tinge, varying in the specimens. Palpi black marked. Head 



