NO. 1203. NEW NOCTVID MOTHS— SMiril. 4.' 



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faint yellowish, tinge in the male, more smoky in the female, with a 

 dusky outer line, from which a very narrow shade may or may uot 

 extend irregularly inward. Disoal lunale faintly marked. Beneath 

 gray, powdery, secondaries more whitish, all wings with an incomplete 

 outer line and a discal spot. 



Expanse, 30 to 34 mm. =1.20 to 1.36 inches. 



Habitat. — Alameda County, California, September (U.S.iSr.M.); Santa 

 Cruz Mountains (Ehrhorn); Senator, Arizona, June 25 (Dr. Barnes). 



Five males and two females, no two alike. This species has approxi- 

 mately the same range of variation as perexcellens Grote=infeU.v Smith, 

 but it is decidedly smaller, the wings are broader, more stumpy, there 

 are no sagittate spots preceding the snbterminal line in the contrast- 

 ing individuals, and, altogether, the species differs so obviously in habi- 

 tus that there seems little danger of confusion. 



Type.— G^i. No. 4806, U.S.j^.M. 



[Laj'va, — Head bilobed, broad, clypeus broadly triangular, rather 

 high, the i^araclypeal pieces nearly attaining the vertex; pale brown, 

 speckled with darker over the sides and at the top of each lobe; labruni 

 pale, jaws dark at tip, ocelli in a brown patch; width, 3.5 mm. Body 

 somewhat flattened, robust, feet normal, but all small and short; 

 tubercle iv of joints 9 and 10 at the upper corner of the spiracle. Thin 

 skinned, translucent whitish, the dorsum faintly shaded with reddish. 

 Cervical shield distinct, brown, with brown impressed strigte, cut by 

 three white bands; anal plate obscure, brown dotted. Spiracles black. 

 Tubercles moderately large, brown, obscure. No marks in the blown 

 example. 



"On roots of various plants" (Koebele, No. 94). — Rarrison G. Dyar.] 



48. CARNEADES VANIDICUS, new species. 



Ground color luteous with a slight reddish tinge, in the female so 

 heavily shaded with gray as to seem smoky or ashen. Head of the 

 palest ground color, the tip of the frontal vestiture sometimes a little 

 darker. Collar with a rather narrow black median transverse line, below 

 which it is paler and, usually, contrastingly discolored. Thoracic vesti- 

 ture mixed scales and flattened hair, patagia relieved, dorsal crest and 

 tuftings distinct, and in the male a little discolored. Primaries with the 

 costal region pale, discolored, gray (female) to yellow (male), a pale streak 

 through the submedian interspace and another from the middle of the 

 reniform outward and curved upward to the apex. Basal line marked 

 only by the pale included space below the median vein, where it breaks 

 the longitudinal black shading, which extends to the transverse anterior 

 line. Transverse anterior line geminate, marked by smoky spots on the 

 costa and by an obliquely outward curve in the submedian interspace. 

 Transverse posterior line practically obsolete in most cases or only 

 marked opposite the cell by the somewhat darker median space, in one 

 female traceable for its full comse, and there a little incurved. Veins 



