June, '07] ENTOMOLOGICAL NEWS. 25I 



A Noctuid new to the North American Fauna. 

 By Henry Engel, Merrick Museum, New Brighton, Pa. 



While examining the collection of Mr. George Krautwurm, 

 of Pittsburgh, Pa., during the winter of 1904, I observed a 

 Noctuid of striking appearance, and a total stranger to me. 



Among other species, Mr. Krautwurm kindly loaned me this 

 specimen, and I sent it to Prof. J. B. Smith, who remarked that 

 it was a puzzle to him. 



The specimen was next sent to Dr. H. G. Dyar, who 

 informed me that the species was not represented in the North 

 American collection of the U. S. Natl. Museum. He suggested 

 that I return the specimen the following winter for comparison 

 with the Schaus collection, which at that time was not in shape 

 for comparison. I purchased the specimen from Mr. Kraut- 

 wurm, and during the following winter sent it again to Dr. 

 Dyar, who made the following determination, and I hereby 

 extend ray thanks to him for his kindness in giving me the 

 references, as well as determining many other species for me. 



Massala, Walker. Cat. British Museum, XXXIII, 977, 1865. 



obvertens Walker. 

 Azeta obvertens, Walker. Cat. British Museum, XV, 1580, 1858. 



Habitat. — West Indies, tropical America to Mexico; Pitts- 

 burgh, Pa., August 3, 1904. One specimen found at rest on 

 trunk of willow tree. (Geo. Krautwurm.) 



Dr. F. E. Blaisdell, 1632 Post Street, San Francisco, California, will 

 determine the Tenebrionidae of the United States for those persons 

 desiring names. 



Mrs A. T. Slosson is spending some weeks at the Mountain Park 

 Hotel, Hot Springs, North Carolina. 



Namks of Coleoptera.— In the News. November, 1906, p. 349. I 

 stated, on Dr. Bergroth's authority, that Ino (preoccupied) should be 

 called Inoplectus Smith. Dr. Bergroth now writes to say that this was a 

 slip of the pen for Inopeplus. 



Leptotheca Fauvel. 1904, for a genus of Ptinidae from New Caledonia, 

 is preoccupied by Leptotheca Thelohan, 1895, in Protozoa. — T. D. A. 



COCKKRELL. 



