NO. 1203. NEW NOCTUID MOTHS— SMITH. 467 



It has the wing form of and belongs with renigera and its allies. The 

 peculiar rosy shading and the evenly marked contrast between the light 

 and dark shading in the outer portion of median space should distinguish 

 this species. 



64. MAMESTRA GRISEATA, new species. 



Ground color dark, powdery, ash-gray, without marked contrasts. 

 Head with a smoky interantennal tuft. Collar with a blackish median 

 line. Patagia blackish margined at base of wings. Primaries with a 

 smoky, upright shading through the median space, and a similar shade 

 in outer portion of subterminal and terminal space, leaving the apex 

 free. Basal line geminate, blackish, broken. A small, black, basal 

 streak terminates at the end of this line and the part of the basal space 

 so inclosed is white-powdered. Transverse anterior line well removed 

 from base, consisting only of a gray scale line without darker defining 

 portions ; in course slightly and evenly outcurved. Tr-ansverse pos- 

 terior line geminate, smoky, included space gray, somewhat acutely 

 outcurved over the cell and distinctly incurved below. Subterminal 

 line white, slender, irregular, somewhat broader and prominent oppo- 

 site the anal angle, relieved by the dark shading on both sides of it. 

 A narrow black line at base of fringes which are gray, cut with 

 smoky. Claviform rather short and broad, pointed, black margined, 

 concolorous. Orbicular oval, oblique, moderate in size, outlined by 

 black scales, then annulate with whitish gray, the center concolorous. 

 Eeniform outlined and ringed in the same way, rather small, upright, 

 a little drawn in from the outside, but scarcely kidney-shaped. Sec- 

 ondaries smoky, paler at base, fringes whitish. Beneath i3aler gray, 

 powdery; primaries with an outer band marked in the costal region 

 only; secondaries with extra median smoky band complete, and a dark 

 discal spot. 



Expanse, 23 to 30 mm. =0.92 to 1.20 inches. 



Habitat. — Hall Yallej^, Colorado (Dr. Barnes). 



One male (the larger) and one female, in fair condition. This species 

 has the autennal joints of the male very distinctly produced, laterally, 

 and furnished with bristle tufts so as to be entitled to the term brush- 

 like. It is therefore allied to gnata and should come near to it iu the 

 arrangement. In wing-form it is like vicina. 



The most remarkable thing in the specimens before me is the dispro- 

 portionately small size of the female, which is perhaps not the rule. 

 The ovipositor, it may be noted, is exserted in the specimen under exami- 

 nation. It may be that, with further material at hand, Ulolonche will 

 prove a better genus for the species; but it may require an examina- 

 tion of the male genitalia to determine the matter finally. 



65. HADENA TAPETA, new species. 



Head and collar deep, dark, red brown, the collar tipped with yellow. 

 Patagia red brown with a submarginal line of yellow scales. Thoracic 



