Art. XIX.— JVew Ifloth!^, with Partial Catalog^ue of 



Noctuse, 



By A. R. Orote, A. M. 



From the tender green of the young grass in spring time, to the 

 hard and brilliant red of the autumn leaf, the moths carry upon their 

 wings nature's palette, full of colors the most various and beautiful. 

 Like flying flowers, stem-forsaking when the sun takes the day from 

 the circling earth, they haunt the darkness with unquiet wings. The 

 human mind dwells with pleasure, from an aesthetic point of view, upon 

 their various tints and forms. As objects of scientific inquiry, they are 

 interesting for the curious changes they undergo and for their structure 

 and habits. In studying their distribution we find that they depend 

 upon soil, vegetation, and climate, and that they even suggest and con- 

 firm observations made upon the probable past condition of the earth's 

 surface by their presence in particular localities. The importance of 

 studying them is not diminished by their frail appearance and brief 

 lives. Indeed, they have additionally attracted a class of writers whose 

 minds seem to be fitted for very different occupation, and it is to be 

 hoped that they may even succeed in giving a fresh illustration of the 

 fairy tale of Beauty and the Beast. 



Tripudia basicinekea n. s. 



Head, thorax, and base of fore wings gray. Primaries washed out, 

 wardly, beyond the middle, with light leather brown. A media curved, 

 broad, velvety black line, broken above. Eeniform round, concolorous, a 

 little iDaler brown. Subtermiual line irregular, waved, fuscous. A dark 

 brown terminal line. A pale line at base of blackish fringes. Costal 

 dots. Hind wings pale fuscous 5 beneath stained with ochery, Avith 

 double, A'ague, common lines. Arizona, B. Neumoegen. Ex^panse 20 

 mil. 



Larger than the two other species quadrifera of Zeller And jlavofasci- 

 ata of Grote. The latter is probably described recently by IMr. Hy- 

 Edwards as Oribatesversiitus. 



EUCLIDLA. INTERCALARIS n. 8. 



V . Gray, dusty, color of erechtea. Fore wings with four median tri- 

 gonate black patches separated by the veins, and a median gray shade 



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