NO. 1203. NEW NOCTUID MOTES— SMITS 493 



color, and with the primaries much less excavated below the apex. 

 These I am unable to identify with any other described form and have 

 named minorata. All are from Florida. Another specimen, from Ari- 

 zona, is yet different, the g-round color becoming bluish gray, while a 

 darkening of the space between the median shade and the transverse 

 posterior line forms a broad smoky band which crosses both wings; 

 this I have called fasciata. The secondary sexual characters are the 

 same in each instance so far as appears by a superficial examination. 



98. ANTIBLEMMA MINORATA, new species. 



Ground color a somewhat dull fawn brown, more or less black pow- 

 dered. Head and collar chocolate brown or darker, thorax and abdo- 

 men concolorous. Primaries sometimes quite even, sometimes strongly 

 powdered, the maculatiou variably evident. Transverse anterior line 

 slender, blackish, inwardly oblique, outcurved in the interspaces, 

 rarely complete. Transverse posterior line uusty yellow, preceded and 

 sometimes followed by a blackish line or shade, with a long, acute 

 angle between veins 6 and 7, inwardly oblique and a little incarved to 

 the inner margin, one-third from the inner angle. Subterminal line a 

 series of more or less diffuse, interspaceal spots in a bisinuate course; 

 sometimes connected by a dusky shade which may fill the space between 

 transverse posterior and subterminal lines to the angle in the former. 

 The shade may then be continued from this angle to the apex, making 

 an apparently straight line from apex to the hind margin. Median 

 shade blackish, diffuse, a little irregular, angulated on the cell, more 

 or less broken. Orbicular a small black dot, more or less completely 

 margined by white scales. Reniform moderate in size, irregular, some- 

 times scarcely defined, sometimes black and contrasting. Secondaries 

 with a median line which is a continuation of the transverse posterior 

 line of the primaries. The median shade of primaries crosses the sec- 

 ondaries at basal third and is broken or obscure; in one case only an 

 elongate spot near the inner margin. Subterminal line similar to that 

 of primaries and as variable, biit a little farther from the margin. 

 Here also the subterminal space is sometimes dark filled, so as to form 

 a broad band. There is a small, black, discal dot. Beneath paler, 

 more irrorate and powdery, with a scalloped, irregular, outer line, a 

 black dot representing the orbicular, and discal spots on both wings, 

 and a white, linear spot representing the reniform on primaries. 



Expanse, 28 to 29 mm. =1.12 to 1.16 inches. 



Habitat. — Florida, April and June 13 (Hulst); Glen wood, Florida 

 (Barnes). 



Two males and two females: none of them in good condition and no 

 two alike. In one case the powdering is almost wanting and the reni- 

 form is contrasting. In another the maculatiou is almost all wanting; 

 a third has the subterminal space on both wings dark filled, while the 

 fourth has this shading broken into spots. 



Type.— Gsit. No. 4838, U.S.i^.M. 



