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Heliothis interjacens, n. s. 



This form is intermediate between wmbrosus (armiger, which also 

 occurs in California) and phlogophagus. It has the faded ochreous 

 color of the former, and is in one form nearly as large, and the de- 

 sign of the latter, there being on primaries an angulated median 

 shade, while on the secondaries the marginal band is distinct as well 

 as the discal lunule. The posterior line is shown by a single series 

 of venular dots, and is even as in umbrosus, not flexed and double as 

 in phlogophagus. The reniform is dark and distinct, with a partial 

 black annulus. The fringes are much as in phlogophagus. There are 

 two forms of interjacens, the one larger, with the markings more ob- 

 literate, and hence more resembling umbrosus, from which it is dis- 

 tinguished by the angulate median shade, and the other smaller and 

 approaching phlogophagus in the distinctness of its ornamentation. 

 The angulate median shade and the single and more even series of 

 posterior venular dots distinguish interjacens, a Californian species 

 which has been sent me in numbers by Mr. Henry Edwards and Mr. 

 Behrens. 



Melicleptria Hoyi, n. s. 



Body blackish, hairy ; the villosity has a purplish tinge, and is 

 paler beneath. Fore wings triangulate, blackish, overlaid with a 

 sprinkling of pale scales, especially at base and terminally. A rather 

 narrow angulate yellowish-white band crosses the wing at the place 

 of the posterior line. Hind wings yellowish white, with a rather 

 wide determinate black border extending also along internal margin. 

 No discal lunule. Under surface paler, more whitish. Primaries 

 diffusely whitish about the transverse band reflected from upper sur- 

 face. On secondaries a costal black spot, and the whitish color in- 

 trudes on the terminal band at anal angle. Expanse, 22 mil. Hab., 

 Bacine, Wis., Dr. P. B. Hoy. The species is very simply and dis- 

 tinctly marked. The specimen is in good condition, but the antenna? 

 are wanting. The generic location may be revised. 



Lygranthoecia tumida, n. s. 



Fore wings light buff-yellow, shaded with olivaceous, with inde- 

 terminate markings. The whitish median lines may be made out, 

 angulate, approximate, fusing sub-medially. The ornamentation of 

 primaries recalls the European genus Clidia. Fringes checkered, 

 pale, narrowly interrupted with black. Thorax like primaries. Hind 

 , wings with unusually broad black borders, leaving a narrow basal 



