480 NORTH AMERICAN NOCTUID.E — SMITH. 



oue of those perplexing forms that it is difficult to classify properly. 

 The vestiture consists of flattened hairs. There is an incomplete basal 

 tuft on thorax, and in the male a distinct tuft near base of abdomen. 

 The male abdomen is also laterally tufted. The front is clothed with a 

 mixture of scales and hair, and the palpi reach nearly to the middle of 

 the trout in the male. All these characters indicate a Mamestra, but 

 the habitus of the iusect is so like Ticniocampa, and the male genitalia 

 are so closely allied to those of rufula, that provisionally at least, I 

 refer the species here. 



Teeniocampa modifica Morr. 

 Pr. B. S. N. H., xvn, 1874, 150. 

 consopita Grt. Papilio 1, 154, 1881, Graphiphora. 



Luteous to very pale yellow, with darker powderings, median lines 

 very distinct, even, pale, with somewhat darker margin. T. a. line 

 evenly outwardly oblique. T. p. unusually close to, and entirely par- 

 allel with, outer margin. S. t. line rarely distinct, not complete in auy 

 specimen I have seen, sinuate, pale. A narrow, pale terminal line. 

 Ordinary spots pale ringed, coucolorous, or very slightly darker. Or- 

 bicular puuctiform. Secondaries soiled whitish, or luteous, paler 

 toward base. Beneath powdery, with a complete dark outer line and 

 discal spot on all wings. The male harpes are subequal to the obliquely 

 rounded tip, which is inwardly irregularly set with long, slender spin- 

 ules. The clasper is a long, slender, rather abruptly beut hook. Near 

 to the inferior margin a short, flattened, obtuse, corneous proaess. Ex- 

 pands 1.20 to 1.40 inches (30 to 35™"). 



Habitat. — New York, Massachusetts, District of Columbia. 



The variety consopita Grt. is much paler yellowish, but otherwise 

 precisely like the type form. It is from Arizona. 



Since the manuscript of this genus was first completed I have seen a 

 number of specimens from other localities, without, unfortunately, 

 noting them. They prove absolutely the identity of modifica and con 

 sopita, the grouud color being not geographical as I had at first sup- 

 posed. I have left the manuscript as originally written. 



Taeniocampa rufula Grt. 



Bttf. Bui. 2, 64, 1874 (Dianthoecia). C. E., 11, 26, 1879 (Graphiphora), id. 13, 126, 1881 

 {Taeniocampa). 



Pale clay-yellow to brick-red, powdered with white scales. Median 

 lines faint, usually ouly the pale included space visible. T. a. Hue out- 

 wardly oblique, sinuate. T. p. line sinuate, usually followed by a row 

 of black venular dots. S. t. line distinct, pale, irregularly sinuate, pre- 

 ceded by a darker shade. A narrow, pale, terminal line. Ordinary 

 spots pale ringed, coucolorous or but little darker. Secondaries soiled 

 whitish, outwardly darker. Beneath, pale, powdery with distinct discal 

 dots, and incomplete, puuctiform outer line. Head and thorax con- 



