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is thickly and evenly beset with minute black points. Ordinary piliferous spots papill- 
ose and pale except on dorsum where they are black with pale papille, usually 3 
papillze to each spot, except on thoracic joints where there are more, Head rather 
small, the tops of lobes reddish-brown the face pale yellowish with distinct black mott- 
lings on the cheeks and bordering the red top. Stigmata with black annulus. 
Pupa. Highly polished. Abdominal joints above sparsely and_ shallowly 
punctate. Cremaster consisting of asmall seriesof converging ridges dorsally, and 
ending in some six or more short, almost straight spines in a horizontal row. 
A strongly marked species. In some of the paler specimens there 
is a suggestion of olivaceous; while the darker specimens have more uni- 
formly gray primaries with the strongly relieved t.a. pale line, and brown 
reniform and subterminal space as the most prominent features. 
The larva while young is found on the leaves and corresponds therto 
in general color. After the last molt it rests stretched on. the thickest 
branches of the tree and is fond of hiding in dark recesses, For pupation 
it forms a slight cocoon either among leaves or in old wood on the 
ground, or on the trunk of the tree. There are two annual generations 
at Washington, the first larvae occuring in July and the second brood in 
October: while the first moths from hibernated pupz appear in April 
and the second brood in August. 
The species, both in the characters ofits larva and of the ¥\ genitalia, 
shows affinities with that group of the genus which includes morula, occt- 
dentahs, furcifera, hasta, lobehe and radchffii; while the genitalia, alone 
considered, would separate it from zmgfata with which, especially the 
form Gr@jfu, it otherwise shows the closest relationship. My studies of 
the genitalia of the genus have, however, so far led to no definite con- 
clusions as to their real value in classification. 
New Species of Noctuidae. 
By Joun B. Smits. 
The following descriptions are published in advance from the manu- 
script of an exhaustive monograph of the Woctuide in preparation by 
myself and Prof. C. V. Riley. To save trouble in changing the name, 
should the species be described by some other author before the mono- 
graph is published. 
Demas flavicornis, 0. sp. Of a pale ash-gray color, sprinkled with black. 
Head paler, antennze yellow. Primaries with base somewhat whitish on costal half; 
t.a. line very faintly indicated, and apparently oblique. Median space darker, relieved 
only by the pale punctiform orbicular. Beyond this dark median space, the wing is 
