NO. 1203. 



NEW XOCTUID 2fOTSS—SMITR. 487 



spur. Wings short and stiff; primaries with tbe costal margin sinuate, 

 distinctly depressed at its middle, apex acute, drawn out, outer mar- 

 gin evenly oblique, fringes long, margins even ; secondaries, rounded, 

 proportionate. 



This little genus of Heliothids is allied to MeUcle))tria, from whicb it 

 differs by the lack of tibial spiuules. The short, broad fore-tibia, the 

 protuberant rough front, and the sinuate costa of the primaries form a 

 combination that separates it from the other allied ibrms. 



go. PALADA SCARLETINA, new species. 



Head and thorax black, clothed with Huffy light-yellowish hair that 

 gives a hoary effect on a good specimen. Abdomen black, terminal 

 segment luteous. Primaries with basal and subterminal spaces tawny 

 to deep smoky brown, median and terminal spaces luteous, the latter 

 very narrow, the former superiorly shaded with tawny or smoky. The 

 lines are marked by the contrasts in the shading of the spaces. Trans- 

 verse anterior outcurved, the edges a little irregular; transverse pos- 

 terior evenly bisinuate; subterminal irregular and very close to outer 

 margin. Fringes purplish to smoky. Reniform vaguely indicated by 

 a somewhat darker shade. Secondaries, evenly black. Beneath, pri- 

 maries scarlet, verging to purple, black at base, yellow at the apex; 

 secondaries black, with a brown tinge. Breast yellowish, venter red 

 brown, the apex yellow. 



Expanse, 17 to 20 mm. = 0.68 to 0.80 inch. 



HaMtat. — California; San Diego County, California: Utah. 



Two males and one female, only the latter in really good condition; 

 the examples received at long intervals. The two males are the smaller 

 and darker, one of them having been in my old collection twelve years 

 ago. The species is so strongly marked that it does not seem possible 

 to mistake it. 



Type.—G-cit. ^o. 4816, U.S.ll^.M. 



.91. SCHINIA RENIFORMIS, new species. 



Head and thorax wliite, vestiture hairy over a scaly base. Primaries 

 white at base, merging gradually into a broad transverse anterior band 

 of a greenish-gray color, which forms an outward acute angle below the 

 median vein. Median space white. Subterminal space greenish gray 

 or olivaceous, the margins even, broadest on costa, outwardly curved 

 over the cell and then very even to the inner margin. Subterminal 

 line broad, white, very even. Terminal space greenish gray, eveu» 

 Fringes white, cut at the tips with greenish gray. Reniform large, 

 greenish gray, oblique, centrally constricted. Secondaries white, with 

 a variably wide smoky outer band, through which there may be a 

 white shade line. Sometimes there is a smoky discal spot. Beneath, 

 with the maculation of the upper side reproduced except for the basal 

 band of the primaries. 



