478 NORTH AMERICAN NOCTUID^E SMITH. 



Habitat. — California, Colorado, Arizona, Illinois, New York. 



Widely distributed but nowhere common. It resembles a small 

 rufida, but tbe antenna) are simple in the male. It is the only species 

 in its group with hairy vestiture and luteous color, so that it is readily 

 recognized. 



Taeniocampa perbrunnea Grt. 

 Can. Eut. 11, 28, 1874, GrapMphora. 



u * # # \ n color recalling Hadena Jractillnea, but more reddish. 

 Veins black. Reniform narrow, black, bordered outwardly by a white 

 streak. Median space superiorly shaded with black. T. p. line even, 

 angulated on vein 5, opposite the disk, followed by venular dots. 

 Orbicular indistinct, coucolorous, defined by black scales. Fringes 

 black, with white venular dots. Veins broadly marked with black on 

 terminal space. S. t. line shaded anteriorly with brown. Ground of 

 the wing bright reddish brown. Hind wings blackish, with contrasting 

 pale reddish fringes. Thorax reddish brown, abdomen blackish, with 

 reddish lateral and anal hairs. Beneath pale, with distinct exterior 

 common line, even on fore wings, dentate on secondaries, which latter 

 show the dismal dot distinctly." The harpes of male have the superior 

 angle of the bend acutely produced. The tip is but slightly enlarged, 

 inwardly spinulose. The clasper is short, very stout, beak-like and 

 corneous. Expands 1.20 inches (30""").- 



Habitat. — California. 



Mr. Grote's description is transcribed because the specimens before 

 me are not sufficiently perfect to describe from. There is no danger of 

 confusiug this with any other species of this group. 



Taeniocainpa peredia Grt. 

 Papilio 3, 32, 1883. 



Eeddish luteous, with carmine and black powderings. Basal line 

 distinct, geminate. T. a. line outwardly arcuate aud sinuate, gemi- 

 nate. T. p. line outwardly curved over reniform, inwardly curved 

 beneath ; inner line narrow, black, continuous, outer line punctiform. 

 S. t. line tolerably even, coucolorous, marked by the somewhat darker 

 terminal space and a faint dusky preceding shade. A distinct dusky 

 shade darkening the outer portion of median space. Orbicular mod- 

 erate, round, slightly paler. Reniform invaded by the dusky shade, 

 which is interiorly more distinct; a few white scales serve to define the 

 spot at this point. Secondaries pale, soiled, fusco-luteous. Beneath 

 pale, powdery, with an interrupted outer line, punctiform on secon- 

 daries, and a distinct discal dot. Head and thorax coucolorous with 

 primaries. The male harpes are inferiority lobed, superiorly the margin 

 is concave and the angle of the bend strongly and acutely produced ; 

 the tip is but little dilated, and rather sparsely spinulose. The clasper 

 js reduced to a flattened obtuse protuberance ; the curved, somewhat 



