174 Mr. W. Warren on new 



Monocona ruhraliSj sp. n. 



Fore wing red, more or less hidden by a dark fuscous 

 suffusion over the basal third, and sprinkled with whitish 

 scales in the rest of the wing ; a large oblique black spot at 

 end of cell ; fringe dark cinereous, with black basal line. 

 Hind wing orange-red, fringe as in fore wing. Palpi mottled 

 black and white ; head, thorax, and basal half of abdomen 

 dark fuscous ; hinder half like hind wing. 



Expanse of wings V6 millim. 



Two females from California. 



This insect, in the Grote collection, bears the MS. name of 

 Orihates Minzii^ Hy. Edw. j but Orihates is already used in 

 the Arachnida3. It was placed by Grote among the smaller 

 Noctuinai, but it is indeed a true Pyralid, and related to 

 Tegostoma and its allies. 



MiMOSCHlNiA, gen. nov. 



Fore wings with costa straight ; apex blunt-pointed ; hind 

 margin obliquely curved. Hind wings broad, well rounded. 

 Forehead with a rounded prominence ; labial palpi porrect, 

 the apical joint slightly drooping, maxillary palpi porrect 

 above the labial ; ocelli distinct ; antennte simple in female, 

 finely pubescent beneath in male. Neuration normal. 



Type M. ihalialisj Wlk. (^Botys)^ xviii. p. 582. 



The genus is intermediate between Antliopliilodes^ Guen., 

 and EmprepeSy Led., the forehead not being bifid, as in the 

 former, but prominently rounded, while in Emprepes it is 

 nearly flat. It includes throe American species — f/ialialis, 

 AVlk., nuchaUs, Grote, and elautalis, Grote — all three of 

 which mimic the markings of Hubner's Noctuid genus 

 Schinia. 



Subfamily Ptbaustinje. 

 NOCTUELIA, Guen. 

 Type N. superba, Frr. Guen. D. vt P. \^. 114. 



Noctuelia jlaviJimhriaJisy sp. u. 



Fore wings fuscous-olive, with a slight gloss, and witii the 

 two lines and stigmata faintly darker ; first line oblique, 

 second forming a slight angulation inwards below the costa, 

 then a large curve outwards, reaching the inner margin near 

 the first line ; orbicular stigma a dark dot, reniform larger, 



