NO. 1203. NEW NOCTUID MOTRS— SMITH. 4g5 



line geminate, black, narrowly lunulate, included space white, its course 

 irregular, outward bend over cell large, so that the line is well removed 

 outwardly and the median space is wide. Subterminal line white 

 broken, irregular, marked by preceding black spots and following 

 shades, obscured by the white mottling in the subterminal space 

 and the gray apical region. Median shade indicated on the costa, lost 

 in the dark space below until it reappears in the gray shade which 

 extends along the entire inner margin. Fringes whitish, with a series 

 of black lunules at base, and a series of olivaceous lunules at tip. 

 Claviform small, black margined, white centered. Orbicular small, 

 round, black ringed, Avhite centered. Reniform moderate, upright 

 dilated superiorly, a little constricted in the center, lower half much 

 narrower, black margined, white filled, with a central olivaceous shade. 

 Secondaries smoky brown, a little paler at base, fringes white, a smoky 

 interline extending from the apex half way to the anal angle. Beneath 

 smoky, primaries powdery along the costa, fringes white, marked as on 

 the upper side: secondaries whitish basally, a broad extra median 

 shade line limiting the smoky outer margin 5 costa powdery, a discai 

 spot smoky. 



Expanse, 30 mm. = 1.20 inches. 



Habitat. — New Mexico. 



One female from the collection of the United States National Museum. 

 This is one of the mottled species not easily describable, resembling 

 variolata in general appearance and referable to the adjuncta group. 

 It differs in the much darker shadings, in the form and course of the 

 lines, and, most obviously, in the form of the reniform. In fact, on close 

 comparison the resemblances to other species turn out to be casual 

 only. 



Type.— Cat. No. 4827, U.S.N.M. 



62. MAMESTRA FLORIDA, new species. 



Ground color white, powdered with dull luteous and black scales, 

 which gives a very pale gray cast. Head and thorax without mark- 

 ings. Primaries with the maculation rather well written, the large 

 blackish reniform being the most prominent feature, a black costal sub- 

 terminal blotch, a smaller blotch on the subterminal line opposite the 

 cell, and the dark claviform being the other distinctive features. Basal 

 line geminate, black, included space white, distinct, broken on the 

 median space. Transverse anterior line geminate, black, outwardly 

 arigulated in the submedian interspace, and outcurved below vein 1. 

 Transverse posterior line geminate, outer portion even, smoky, inner 

 narrow, linear, denticulate, black, as a whole nearly parallel with the 

 outer margin. Subterminal line white, marked by a preceding dusky 

 shade, irregularly sinuate. A series of blackish terminal lunules. 

 Median shade oblique from costa to reniform, which is completely 

 darkened by it, then vague, diffuse, smoky, parallel with and close to 

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