NO. 1203. NEW NOCTUID MOTHS— SMITH. 481 



with or without a preceding' paler shadiug-. Transverse posterior line 

 ontcurved over the cell, evenly oblique below, with or without a follow- 

 ing paler shade line. , A series of black, terminal lunules, followed by 

 a pale line at the base of the fringes. In the darker specimens a ]3aler 

 shade extends from the apex through the subtermiual space, making a 

 vague subterminal line by contrasting with the darker terminal region. 

 Orbicular moderate in size, a little irregular, with or without a paler 

 annulus. Eeniform oblique, centrally constricted and larger below, 

 with or without a pale annulus. Secondaries whitish, with a yellow 

 tinge and a smoky terminal line. Beneath whitish, powdery, with a 

 broken line and black discal spot on all wings. 



Expanse, 27 to 30 mm. = 1.08 to 1.20 inches. 



5«&ite^.— Bluff, Utah, May 30 (Mrs. H. M. Peabody); Santa Eita 

 Mountains, Arizona, June 19 (E. A. Schwarz). 



One male, three females, all from the U. S. National Museum. Like 

 contrahens in type of maculation,but the lines are more even and the 

 contrasting ordinary spots are characteristic. The variation is in the 

 amount of dark overlaying* scales w'hich, when most abundant, leave 

 a paler border to all the dark markings. 



T,/^jf.._Oat. Ko. 1781, U.S.KM. 



SELICANIS, new genus. 



Head small, retracted; front smooth. Hat, or with a blunt point. 

 Tongue weak aad short. Palpi small, not reaching the middle of the 

 front, terminal joint small. Antenna3 of the male with joints marked 

 with small tufts of cilia or single, longer, lateral bristles. Eyes naked. 

 Thorax short, convex, subquadrate, with a small tuft behind the collar 

 and a somewhat indetinite bunch at the base. Abdomen i)roportiou- 

 ately very long, exceeding the secondaries by one-third to one-half its 

 length; without obvious tuftings. Legs short and stout in the male, 

 clothed with dense bunches of hair and scales; in the female more 

 sparsely clothed, without spiuules or other horny armature. Thoracic 

 vestiture consists of long, flattened, scale-like hairs. Wings propor- 

 tionately short and narrow, with well-marked apices and obliquely 

 arcuate outer margin. 



The genus seems to belong with the Orthosiids. Its type is cinereola, 

 which is herewith described, and ijrobably the species described as 

 A nchocelis digitalis by Grote will also tind a place here. Anchocelis 

 has a cylindrical frontal protuberance and a spiral, functional tongue, 

 which the new genus does not have. 



84. SELICANIS CINEREOLA, new species. 



Mouse gray to fawn brown, powdery, scales of thoracic vestiture 



often white tipped. Head and thorax without markings. Primaries 



with the median lines whitish, the median space obviously darker than 



the rest of the wing; narrow, unusually even and like a broad, dark^ 



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