482 NORTH AMERICAN NOC'IUID^E SMITH. 



complete outer line ; secondaries with a discal spot. Head and thorax 

 coucolorous. Harpes of male suddenly constricted, and slightly bent 

 beyond middle, broadening into an obliquely rounded lappet which is 

 spiuulose at inner side. The clasper is double, or rather there are two 

 projections forming the clasper. One is short, stout, somewhat beak- 

 like, pointing downward; the other is longer, dilating toward tip, ter- 

 minating in an acute point. Expands 1 to 1.20 inches (25 to 30 mm ). 



Habitat. — Atlantic States to Florida, west to Mississippi. 



.Bather a variable species, yet easily known by the heavily bipecti- 

 nate antennae of the male, combined with the obtuse rather stumpy 

 primaries. The vestiture is mixed scales and hair. 



Taeniocanipa utahensis Smith. 

 Proc. U. S. Nat. Mus. 1887, x, 473. 



Luteous red brown, with blackish powderings. Median lines indis- 

 tinct. T. a. very faint, outwardly arcuate. T. p. nearly parallel with 

 outer margin, faintly geminate, the included space marked with pale 

 scales. S. t. line obsolete, barely traceable by a few pale scales. A 

 pale line at base of fringes. Terminal space darker shaded. Orbicu- 

 lar small, round, marked by a few pale scales. Beniform narrowly 

 black marked, defined by a few pale scales superiorly ; inferiorly black 

 filled. Secondaries pale, fusco-luteous, outwardly darker. Beneath, 

 powdery with an outer line, punctiform on secondaries; the latter also 

 with a discal spot. The harpes of male are curved, gradually narrow- 

 ing until dilated into the lappet-like tip, which is inwardly spiuulose. 

 Near the base is a long, slender, curved corneous process. Nearer to 

 tip is a thick, more membraneous process, regularly tapering to a point. 

 Expands 1.20 inches (30 ram ). 



Habitat. — Utah. 



A very distinct species. Its nearest ally is oviduca, from which it is 

 readily distinguished by the shorter pectinations of the male antennae, 

 by the obsolete s. t. line, the small inconspicuous orbicular, and the 

 inferiorly black filled reuiform. The species was collected by Capt. 

 D. H. Murdoch, U. S. Army, near Fort Thornburgh, and I have never 

 seen another specimen. The type is in the National Museum. 



Taeniocampa incincta Morr. 



Pr. B. S., N. H., 1874, xvn, 133, 156 (Mamestra); Grt. Buf. Bui. 2, 215, 1874; Can. 

 Eat. 13, 12(3, 1881 (Tasniocampa). 



Pale, reddish luteous, with black powderings. Median lines indis- 

 tinct, geminate. T. a. slightly oblique, outwardly curved between 

 veins. T. p. interrupted, nearly parallel with outer margin, outer line 

 punctiform ; the dots veuular. S. t. line pale, but little sinuate, pre- 

 ceded by a series of sagittate black ispots, longest opposite the cell. 

 A narrow, pale terminal line. Orbicular moderate, coucolorous, faintly 

 outlined by a pale shade of ground color, Beniform upright, darker, 



