March, 1902.] Smith : New Xoctuidk. 45 



Helotropha obtusa, sp. nov. 



Dark suiuky brown, almost blackish Aiitennie whitish above, distinctly reddish 

 below. Head and thorax concolorous save that the tips of collar and thoracic tuftings 

 are somewhat lighter brown. Abdomen uniformly smoky. Basal line obscurely 

 marked, consisting of a very narrow black, preceded by an equally narrow pale shad- 

 ing. T. a. line geminate, well removed from base, outwardly oblique, even, the inner 

 line narrow, black, the outer lost in the black median space. T. p. line geminate, 

 even, obtusely curved over cell, then evenly oblique below, to the hind margin close 

 to the point reached by the t. a. line. The median space is thus V-shaped and this is 

 black or blackish-brown below the median vein ; towards costa and in the cell where 

 it is broken by the ordinary spots the shade lightens a little, but continues darker than 

 the rest of the wing. S. t. line very narrow, rivulous, composed of whitish scales, 

 more or less relieved by dusky preceding and following shades. Apex gray powdered. 

 A series of black, interspacial terminal lunules. Fringes smoky brown, with a yellow 

 line at base, and cut with yellow opposite the veins. A very short, broad claviform 

 is outlined in black scales. Median vein marked with pale scales through the dark 

 median space, and these scales are continued on veins 3 and 4 from the forking to the 

 s. t. space. Orbicular small, oval, olilique, of the ground color, very narrowly out- 

 lined by pale scales. Reniform upright, inferiorly dilated and indefined, of the ground 

 color, defined by a very narrow pale line except as above stated. Secondaries dark 

 smoky, a narrow extra-median line and a discal lunule being faintly traceable. Be- 

 neath smoky, very powdery, with a large discal spot and sometimes an extra-median 

 line on the secondaries. The primaries in one case have also a vague discal spot. 

 Expands I.12-I.32 inches 3= 28-33 '""'■• 



Habitat. — Ashleys Ferry, Clareiiiont, N. H., August 17, 1901, 

 September 3, 1900, Mr. Foster. 



Three males and one female, the former the smaller examples, 

 none of which are really good. 



The species is so utterly unlike any other known to me that I sus- 

 pected a foreign origin when the first example came into my hands. 

 It is perhaps questionable whether the species can remain in Helo- 

 tropha ; but the peculiar type of maculation allies it to Euplexia, 

 which it also resembles in wing-form, while in other respects the 

 structural details point to remformis which is resembled by the new 

 form in the shape of the ordinary spots and the whitish markings of 

 the median vein and its branches. 



The specimens were communicated by Mr. F. H. Foster. 



Eucalyptera strigata, sp. nov. 



Ground color creamy white or yellowish, varying a little in tint, and variably 

 black or brown speckled. Head below the frontal tuft, the sides of the palpi and 

 the anterior legs deep brown. Primaries with a broad somewhat diffuse blackish 

 streak thrc.ugh the center of the wing, not quite reaching the base and usually fading 

 out just short of the outer margin . Two small black points indicate the ordinary spots. 



