1909] Dyar: New Species of Insects. 129 



Hadena niphetodes, new species. (Fig. 41, No. 8.) 



Blackish gray with olivaceous shadings. Scales of the 

 thorax very long and spatulate. Fore wing with a broad white 

 band from costa to vein 1 at basal third, edged with black, but 

 not sharply relieved against the general dark color of the wing. 

 Orbicular small, white. Reniform pure white, more or less dis- 

 tinctly joined to costa by a white or olivaceous patch, its lower 

 angle produced inward or detached as a small dot. Outer line 

 black, scarcely relieved, single, crenulate. Subterminal line 

 marked by white or olivaceous spottings. A black terminal line, 

 the fringe slightly intermixed with whitish. Hind wing black, 

 the fringe intermixed with white. Beneath black, frosted with 

 white, especially on hind wing, which has a dark discal annulus 

 and outer line. Expanse, 23 mm. 



One 9 , Hoorie, British Guiana (C. W. Beebe) ; 1 9 , St. 

 Jean, Maroni River, French Guiana, July, 1904 (W. Schaus) . 



Type.— No. 12673, U. S. National Museum. 



I have placed this species in "Hadena" because the genus in 

 which it falls (the tenth genus on page 13 of vol. viii of Sir G. 

 F. Hampson's "Catalogue of the Noctuidae in the collection of 

 the British Museum") appears not to have been validated by the 

 citation of species under it, and I therefore avoid publishing it 

 in advance of the author's action. 



Subfamily Noctuinx. 



Capnodes albicosta, new species. (Fig. 41, No. 9.*) 



Head and collar black, with a slight white frosting, espe- 

 cially on posterior edge of collar; thorax rust-red; abdomen 

 blackish. Fore wing rust-red with blackish tint, the costa nar- 

 rowly yellowish white, ordinary lines slender, blackish the outer 

 with points on the veins, the median space solidly filled with 

 blackish up to the cell and around its end to vein 6. Reniform 

 represented by two separated dots, which, with the orbicular, 

 have small white centers in black annuli. Traces of subter- 

 minal line. Fringe blackish, cut by rust-red at the ends of the 

 veins. Hind wing with the mesial area faintly black-shaded as 

 on fore wing, the traces of subterminal line and fringe similar. 

 Beneath dull-colored, thickly irrorated with blackish, the hind 

 wing with blackish discal mark and mesial dentate line. Ex- 

 panse, 27 mm. 



*The photograph is too dark and does not show the markings. 



