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Heliophilii suloiiea GruU. 



$ . — Intermediate in general cliaracters between H. phragmitidicold and U. 

 commoides, the bind wings ratber resembling tbe former, the front jiair tbe 

 latter species. Tbe fore wings are shaded longitudinally with reddish, the 

 costal region to tbe black dotted t. p. line and beyond on tbe veins being difler- 

 entiated by its grayish color. Median uervure accompanied by a deeper red- 

 dish shade and marked with •whitish. A white dot at the extremity of the 

 nervure. The usual black dot at the place of the reniform is not perceptible 

 in any of my four fresh specimens. Veins accented by paler scales. A darker 

 irregular shading over the terminal space. A very narrow medial black lon- 

 gitudinal basal streak, and a very slight one on internal margin near the base. 

 Fringes dark reddish, obsoletely cut with pale hairs at the extremity of the 

 veins. Hind wings whitish with soiled veins and shaded fuscous borders and 

 the fringes lightly stained with reddish. Beneath reddish, irrorate ; on the 

 fore wings the transverse line indicated on costa; hind wings pale except 

 along costal region. Collar with double lines. Body parts reddish gray, abdo- 

 men paler. 



Expanse, 34 m. m. Ithaca, N. Y., coll. Smith. 



This species wants the determinate black streaks on the primaries 

 of //. commoides, is a slighter and more ruddy species and may be 

 distinguished from H. phragmitidicola by the characters of the 

 darker male secondaries. 



Anicla n. g. 



Form of Laphygma frugipcrda and with the compressed vestiture of Cara- 

 drina. So also with a resemblance to Prodenia, but separable from each by the 

 fact that all the tibiae are spinose. This character brings the moth near to 

 Agrotis, but the smooth and flattened, untufted thoracic squamae oifer a dis- 

 tinguishing feature. The femora and tibiae show some looser fringing of 

 hair. Eyes naked. Labial palpi stout with short obtuse terminal article. 

 Male antennae simple, merely pubescent beneath. Front rather broad and the 

 bead is prominent and thickly scaled. The hind wings are translucent and 

 from the total habitual appearance we should refer the moth to Laphygma or 

 Prodenia at first sight, from which the above characters and the untufted tho. 

 rax and abdomen will separate it. (There is a short thick discolorous fringing 

 of scales to the eyes which seems to me to differ from the ordinary character 

 of " fringes.") 



This genus leads me to believe, that Lederer's ^' Noctuiden" might 

 more naturally follow his "Caradrinen^^ in a grouping of the genera. 

 In my " List " the genus may provisionally precede Lapliijgma on 

 page 22. 



AnicLa Alabamae Grote. 



5 $ . — Stouter than L. frugiperda and quite distinct in coloration from any 

 of the varieties of that species described by Prof. Kiley in the Missouri Reports. 



