NO. 1203. NEW NOCTVID MOTHS— SMITH. 479 



a blackish transverse line. Thorax irregularly powdered with gray, 

 smoky and black scales. Primaries streaked with blackish, smoky and 

 white, darkest through the upper half of the median space, with a 

 dusky oblique shade at the apex and another at the internal angle. 

 Median lines lost. Subterminal line indicated by a series of black and 

 gray streaks, disconnected centrally. A broken black terminal line 

 at the base of the very long, even fringes, which are interlined with 

 smoky, and cut with smoky and black. Olaviform a long, broken black 

 streak from base to the middle of the wing, margined on both sides 

 with white scales. Orbicular oval, elongate, pointed basally, ringed 

 with white, with smoky center. Eeniform small, lunate, ringed with 

 white and with a pale, central powdering. Secondaries smoky, with a 

 vague reddish shading, paler at base. Beneath gray, x)owdery, with 

 small discal spots, but without lines in the example before me. 



Expanse, 22 to 25 mm. = 0.88 to 1.00 inch. 



Habitat. — Colorado desert. 



Two females, neither of them in good condition, but with the macula- 

 tion perfectly defined. This is the smallest of the stout species and 

 belongs to the strigate series. I have had it for some years awaiting 

 additional material, but have received none, and conclude that the 

 species is very local. 



8i. TRICHOPOLIA SERRATA, new species. 



Ground color a dull, dark, smoky brown, overlaying a luteous ground. 

 Head and thorax dark brown, with a few luteous scales intermingled. 

 Abdomen dull gray. Primaries with the maculation fairly evident, not 

 contrasting. Basal line pale, the margins marked by scattered black 

 scales, not well defined. Transverse anterior line geminate, nearly 

 upright, included space pale, outer line broken, black, slender, preced- 

 ing line hardly darker than the ground. Transverse liosterior line 

 narrow and black, outer line smoky; in course, outcurved over the 

 reniform and almost touching it, only a little drawn in, below. Sub- 

 terminal line pale, irregular, broken, without obvious defining shades, 

 the veins a little darker through subterminal and terminal spaces. 

 Below vein 5 a black bar crosses the snbterminal space and is con- 

 tinued, less obviously, to the outer margin beyond subterminal line. A 

 series of black terminal lunules. Orbicular large, round or nearly so, 

 of the i^aler ground color, black ringed. Eeniform large, nearlj^ round, 

 of the pale ground color, black ringed. Olaviform broad, pointed, 

 extending nearly across the median space; of the darker, overlaying 

 shade, black ringed. Secondaries white, with a narrow, smoky, ter- 

 minal line. Beneath white, powdery along the costa, primary with a 

 partial outer line; all wings with a blackish discal spot. 



Expanse, 25 to 28 mm. = 1.00 to 1.12 inches. 



Habitat. — Texas, without definite locality. Two males, of which one 

 is in very good condition. The antennae are a little serrated, the pro- 



