NEW NOCTURNAL MOTRS— SMITH. 103 



Tym.—^o. 4310, U.S.N.M. 



Habitat. — Browusville, Texas; June 10; Townsend, ISTo. 544. 



A single female specimen from the U. S. ISTational Museum. The 

 resemblance to amella in size, form, and general appearance is obvious; 

 but the distinctive feature, the parallel black lines near the center 

 of the wing, is equally prominent. A further difference is that in 

 amella the subterminal line is well defined, angiilated and prominent, 

 while in the new species this line is practically obsolete. It should be 

 added to the description that an irregularly waved, somewhat diffuse 

 bluish black band runs through the subterminal space and crosses the 

 subterminal line at its inception on the costa. 



CAMPOMETRA CINCTIPALPIS, new species. 



Ground color a deep purplish red-brown, the primaries with elevated 

 black, squamose vestiture that gives a velvety appearance. Front 

 with a pale yelk)wish, transverse band, a pale tuft at base of each 

 antenna, and the palpi pale banded. Thorax purplish without defined 

 markings. Primaries with an intermingling of pale and yellowish 

 scales that gives a somewhat mossy appearance and obscures the ordi- 

 nary maculation. Basal line faintly traceable by black scales. Trans- 

 verse anterior line upright, blackish, a little wavy, preceded by a 

 l)urplish shade which is itself limited by a darker brown, diffuse, 

 shading; followed by a mossy brown shade line. A narrow, black, 

 irregular median line of elevated scales. Transverse posterior line 

 narrow, black, irregularly waved and toothed, squarely exserted 

 over the reniform and almost as squarely inset beneath it; followed at 

 some distance by a broader, less defined, and more even brown shading. 

 Subterminal line distinct, pale, irregularly but not greatly sinuated. 

 Orbicular small, round, incompletely and obscurely brown ringed and 

 with a brown central dot. Keniform not defined, marked by a small 

 upper and larger lower white spot, the two connected by a narrow, white 

 line. Secondaries uniform smoky brown, the fringes with a pale inter- 

 line. Beneath, primaries smoky, powdery, with a partial extramedian 

 transverse line. Secondaries whitish, powdery at base, with a brown 

 discal spot and a crenulated brown median line, beyond which the wing 

 is brown nearly to the margin, which is again whitish. 



Expands 1.35 inches =34 mm. 



Type.— No. 4315, U.S.N.M. 



Habitat. — Cocoanut Grove, Florida; E. A. Schwarz. 



A single defective female from the U. S. ISTational Museum. The 

 apices of both wings are rubbed and broken, but the specimen is other- 

 wise very fair, all the markings being discernible on one side or the 

 other. It is the darkest species of the genus and has no contrasts in 

 maculation. The immaculate secondaries will further serve to differen- 

 tiate it from the other described forms. The middle tibia seems to have 

 no obvious siiinose armature, but has a central ring tuft of scales. 



