NO. 1203. NEW NOCTUID MOTHS— SMITH. 429 



19. CARNEADES COMPRESSIPENNIS, new species. 



Ground color dull smoky red brown, roughly powdered. Front 

 brown. Collar with a black median line, below which it is brown. 

 Thoracic vestiture flattened hair, some of it tipped with gray, patagia 

 and tuftings fairly marked. Primaries with the vestiture rough and 

 powdery in appearance, all the markings fragmentary, cell filled with 

 richer brown around the ordinary spots, costa at base, gray powdered. 

 Basal line geminate, broken, black, included space gray. Transverse 

 anterior line geminate, black, inner portion less evident, included space 

 paler, inwardly bent on the median vein, outwardly oblique and out- 

 curved in the interspaces below. A black shading below the median 

 vein connects the inward tooth of transverse anterior line with the 

 outward bend of basal. Median vein obscurely pale powdered. Trans- 

 verse posterior line geminate, inner portion luuulate, outer even, 

 included lunules reddish. Subterminal line yellowish powdery, a little 

 irregular, marked by a preceding brown shade, the powdering out- 

 wardly diffuse, lightening the apex and sometimes the terminal sjiace. 

 A series of small terminal lunules, followed by a yellowish line at the 

 base of the fringes. No obvious median shade. Claviform moderate 

 in size, outlined by black scales. Orbicular irregular, subquadrate, 

 oblique, narrowly pale ringed, center pale powdered. Eeniform moder- 

 ate in size, rather narrow, kidney-shaped, annulate with yellowish 

 gray, the center i)ale powdered. Secondaries evenly smoky in both 

 sexes, fringes with a yellow line at base. Beneath dull gray, powdery, 

 with very faint ordinary spots and only a trace of an outer line. 



Expanse, 33 mm. = 1.32 inches. 



Habitat. — Yosemite, California, male. Dr. Dyar, ^STo. 9617; female, 

 special locality and source not marked. 



One male and one female only, very much alike and in fair condition. 

 The species is allied to intrita Morrison, but is much more powdery as 

 well as somewhat broader winged. 



20. CARNEADES FALERINA, new species. 



Ground color pale, whitish luteous with deeper luteous shadings and 

 smoky powderings. Head and thorax coucolorous; palpi dusky at the 

 sides, color with rather an indefinite smoky median line, best marked 

 in the female. Thoracic vestiture mixed with scales and flattened hair, 

 patagia marked, tuftings evident though not prominent. Primaries 

 with the markings all present and recognizable, but not strongly 

 marked or contrasting, the lines luteous or smoky. Basal lines gemi- 

 nate, marked by smoky spots on the costa and below the median vein. 

 Transverse anterior line geminate, inner portion less marked, upright 

 or a little oblique outwardly, interrupted in the costal space, with small 

 outcurves in the interspaces. Transverse posterior line geminate on 

 the costa, the outer portion lost below the costal space, inner part 



