486 NORTH AMERICAN NOCTUID.E SMITH. 



towards tip, where it is truncate. Expands 1.32 to 1.45 inches (33 

 to 36 ra, »). 



Habitat. — Oregon, Montana. 



The thorax is quadrate, the vestiture somewhat flattened, leaving a 

 somewhat prominent collar, and an indistinct basal tuft. The species 

 has nothing in common with Anarta, to which Mr. Grote referred it, 

 while it is somewhat aberrant placed here. Yet it agrees better with 

 this genus than any other, and, until it finds closer allies, is better 

 referred here. 



Taeniocampa arthrolita Harr. 



Buf. Bui. 2, 275, 1874 (Grapkiphora). 



Thorax and primaries are a light brownish drab, with a yellowish 

 shade ; the t. a. line is black but faint ; the median shade more marked, 

 most distinct just inside the reniform spot on the cell, making two 

 angles, outwardly and inwardly ; the t. p. line geminate, above rounded 

 outwardly, below inwardly. The outer component line very distinct 

 and waved; the s. t. and terminal lines a series of black dots; the ren- 

 iform spot concolorous, with a pale auuulus ; the orbicular spot hardly 

 perceptible. Beneath dusky, an arcuated line on both wings; a discal 

 spot on the secondaries. 



Expands 1.40 to 1.55 inches (34 to 3S mm ). 



Habitat.— California. 



Dr. Harvey's description is copied because the specimen before me, 

 though certainly this species, is somewhat faded. The puuctiform s. t. 

 line will serve to at ouce distinguish the species. The male anteunre 

 are said to be somewhat moniliform, the joints ciliate — my specimen 

 is a female. 



Taeniocampa pacifica Harv. 



Buf. Bui., 2, 120, 1874 {Grapkiphora) ; Grt., Cau. Eut., 7, 45 = incerta; Smith, Proc. 

 U. S. Nat, Mus., 1687, x, 47G, an sp. dist. 



Obscure luteous gray, with black transverse striga and irrroration, 

 maculation obscure, median lines usually obsolete. T. p. line when pres- 

 ent, with a defined angle opposite the reniform, then evenly oblique to 

 hind margin. S. t.line concolorous or slightly paler, marked by a darker 

 preceding shade, most evident on costa. A row of small terminal dots. 

 Sometimes there is a distinct median shade parallel with the s. t. line. 

 Orbicular usually obsolete, rarely pale ringed, always concolorous. 

 Reniform large, pale ringed, usually darker, blackish. The secondaries 

 are powdery, pale, with the discal spot of under side faintly reproduced. 

 Beneath pale, powdery, an incomplete outer line and distinct discal 

 spots on all wings. Head and thorax concolorous with primaries, the 

 latter densely clothed with long hair. The harpes of the male narrow 

 abruptly near tip, the inferior angle of tip produced into a rather long, 

 curved process, acute at tip. The clasper is irregularly curved, some- 



