NO. 1203. NEW NOCTUID MOTHS— SMITH. 489 



be fairly considered as ratlier rare or at least local. It has a median 

 baud like eonchiila., but Las also a separate reuiform aud evideut sub- 

 terminal line. 



We have now four species referred to Schiuia wbicli are largely sil- 

 vered ou the primaries and would be classed as Tricopis if Grote's 

 generic term could be used. These are concliula Felder ami Eogeuhofer 

 {chri/sellus Grote), aJencis Harvey, oculata Smith, and ciliata Smith. 

 The two former are narrower winged and the primaries are more 

 pointed than in the latter. In concliula there is no reuiform and the 

 median band is angulated so as to include the space that should be 

 occupied by it. In ciliata there is a similar baud, but outside of, and 

 separated from it, is a large reuiform. In aleucis the median baud is 

 upright, the reuiform is entirely separated, the terminal and part of the 

 subterminal spaces are dusky, aud there is a triangnlar, silver, ante- 

 apical spot on the costa. Finally, the reuiform is very large and prom- 

 inently contrasting. isTo effort has beeu made to ascertain what differ- 

 ences there may be in tibial armature. The fact that the term chry- 

 seUns Grote must yield to conchula Felder and Eogeuhofer has been 

 recently pointed out by Mr. Strecker. 



TRIPUDIA LUDA Druce. 

 AgropMla hida DnrcE, Biol. Cent.-Amer.. Heterocera, II, 1898, p. 491, pi. xciv, fig. 25. 



Five specimens of this species are before me; two of them from 

 Sonora, Mexico, 40 miles from the Arizona liue; two marked ^'Ariz.,'' 

 without other information, and one, taken by Mr. E. A. Schwarz, marked 

 Tucson, Arizona, May IS, 1898. It seems probable that this will i)rove 

 not uncommon on both sides of the border. 



The original reference to Agriphila can hardly be sustained if Leder- 

 er's limitation of the genus is correct. The genera of this series need 

 further study; but for the present I prefer to change the reference 

 originally made by Mr. Druce to Trijntdia, because the species seems 

 congeneric with our species, and because I have two others which I 

 prefer to describe under that head. 



94. TRIPUDIA BALTEATA, new species. 



Head and thorax ashen gray, the disk and posterior tuft of scales a 

 little darker. Abdomen with rather a prominent dark scale tuft on the 

 third segment, yellowish at base. Primaries ash gray at base, followed 

 by a broad, oblique, bright luteous band which extends to the middle 

 of the wing. This is followed by ashen gray, with a brownish overlay 

 to the paler gray fringes. The outer edge of the yellow band is mar- 

 gined by a black line which, on the cell, forms an outward loop to 

 include the reuiform shading and merges with the transverse posterior 

 line. The latter is single, black, and below its merger with the line 

 ])reviously described is irregularly angulate. The subterminal space is 

 shaded with brown, the subterminal line being indicated by pale, rather 



