June, 1S98.] SMITH : NORTH AMERICAN NoCTUID^E. 101 



Noctua cynica, sp. nov. 



This species reminds one of Orthodes cynica in wing form and gen- 

 eral appearance, hence I give it the same name. As compared with 

 rubifera, with which it has been confused, it is much broader winged, 

 with both costal and inner margins curved at least as decidedly as in 

 perconflua. In maculation it does not differ from rubifera, except in 

 the lack of a median shade in the specimens before me. But this may 

 not be permanent, and I attribute most value to the wing form and the 

 totally different genitalia of the male. It was this form that I dissected 

 to illustrate rubifera in pi. IV, f. 37 of Bulletin 44, already cited, and 

 a new figure is given on pi. VII, fig. 3, herewith. The differences be- 

 tween the two are simply in details and partly due to a difference in 

 mounts. My examples are from the vicinity of Albany, N. Y. 



It is not impossible that one or the other of these forms may really 

 be the same as the European rubi, or the latter may even agree with one 

 of the western forms. Unfortunately I have none for comparison. 



Noctua jucunda IVik. = perconflua Grt. 



This species has approximately the wing-form described for cynica, 

 but is more brightly marked. All the specimens I have seen are dis- 

 tinctly mottled or shaded with yellow and the transverse lines are more 

 irregular. The reniform is more regularly kidney-shaped and both 

 spots are mottled, the orbicular quite usually open above. 



The male was not before me in 1890, and a figure of the genitalia is 

 presented herewith on pi. VII, fig. 4. It will be seen at once that it is 

 of the same type as in cynica while yet very different in detail, and it 

 shows that the new species follows its ally in wing form rather than that 

 most like it in ornamentation. 



Noctua calgary, sp. nov. 



At various times Mr. F. H. Wolley Dod has been sending me exam- 

 ples which I have not been satisfied to place with either rubifera or ro- 

 saria, but named rosaria, I think. The recent receipt of specimens 

 bringing the number up to three males and one female — a much better 

 series was unfortunately ruined in sending — makes it possible for me to 

 decide that we have a new species to deal with. Superficially it is dis- 

 tinct by the more trigonate primaries, which have rectangular apices, 

 the outer margin straight to vein 3, then forming an obvious though 

 obtuse angle inwardly. In all the specimens the ordinary spots are 

 gray powdered and the median shade is obvious. The s. t. space is the 

 darkest part of the wing in all examples and contrasts with the pale ter- 



