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as the paler bind wings, leads me to recall all the instances \Yhere I 

 have erred in my estimate of varietal characters in the group, I find 

 that I have made almost as many mistakes one way as the other 5 thus 

 I feel sure that there is not an overplus of "species" as the names 

 stand in the books. There are a few varieties still held distinct in 

 all jorobahility, such as gentilis and perbelUs, evicta and vomerina^ 

 hut the proportion of such cases is very small indeed ; and it must he 

 remembered that even in Europe, where they have studied the fauna 

 so much longer and more carefully, discoveries afiecting the stand- 

 ing of certain forms are yet making. 



Platysenta angustiorata n. s. 



S. Eyes naked. Body linear, narrow, slender; abdomen a little 

 flattened, untufted. Front without projection. Labial palpi exceeding 

 the head; second article squamose; third rather long with appressed 

 vestiture. Wings silky. Forewings fuscous gray, darker terminally'. 

 A basal blackish dash below median vein. One on the cell before the 

 small reniform, which consists of two black points ringed with pale. 

 Lines wanting. Legs unarmed, concolorous with the rest of the aj)- 

 pendages and body. Hind wings pale at base, with broad blackish 

 terminal band. Beneath both wings with broad black borders. Colo- 

 rado. This species cannot be a Caradrinai from the well-sized terminal 

 article of the labial palpi. It is about the size of atriciliata, differing 

 in color, but like it in the ornamentation, or rather want of it. I can- 

 not believe that Gnenee's virJens is atriciliata. The insect is like a Gar- 

 odrina, but not agreeing with Leiicania. The slender form, naked eyes, 

 etc., should prevent any idea that in Platysenta we have to do with a 

 noctuid related to I[elio2}Mla. It will, I think, be found that the genus 

 comes nearer to Garadrina than any other. 



Anchocelis digitalis u. s. 



Size smaU. Wings entire; apices pointed. Head, sunken, hairy. 

 Eyes naked; strongly lashed; somewhat ovate or narrowed. Tongue 

 not as strong as usual. Front with a transverse elevation. Legs with 

 the tibiae unarmed, pilose. A neat, compact noctuid, with the orna- 

 mentation not unlike Tamiocamjja: modifica. Bright brown. The median 

 space darker, contrasting, v-shaped, confined by the two pale, narrow, 

 even, median Unes, converging to internal margin where they nearly 

 meet; stigmata obsolete. The reniform alone discernible; figure-of-8 

 shaped, made of two dark spots, annulate with pale. The wings are a 

 little silky. Hind wings blackish, with paler, brownish fringes. Anal 

 tuft brownish; beneath paler, with double common lines and discal 

 marks on both ])air. Orono, Maine ; Mrs. Fernald. 



This beautiful little noctuid differs in the pointed primaries from the 

 genus Anchocelis; it agrees in the naked, lashed eyes, and in Laving a 

 clypeal protuberance. It is related to the genera about Tamiucampa. 

 The body is rather shaggy, the thorax is straight-haired, and there seems 



