46 JOURNAL New York Entomological Society. [v.,i. x. 



T. p. line indicated by a curved series of smoky venular points. A series of smoky, 

 terminal, interspacial marks. The brown or blackish powdering on the primaries 

 tends to darken the apical and terminal regions of the wing. Secondaries paler 

 creamy, tending to dusky toward the apex. Beneath yellowish, primaries with a vari 

 able smokv suffusion ; either a vague reproduction of the upper striga or involving the 

 entire disc. Kxpands .90-1.30 inches ^= 23-32 mm. 



Habitat. — Hackley, Texas, May 29; September i-io. 



Three male.'^ and six females from Mr. George Franck, who has 

 others. The collector and the conditions under which they were col- 

 lected are unknown to me. The species differs obviously from the 

 other described forms by the continuous central streak and punctiform 

 t. p. line. The males are smaller throughout and have the antennae 

 lengthily ciliated. The females vary more than the males, not only 

 in size, but in relative distinctness of maculation. In the series before 

 me the smallest female is as large as the largest male. 



Platysenta albipuncta, sp. nov. 



Resembles videns in appearance, but is paler, not so reddish, not so glossy in ap- 

 pearance and is more contrastingly marked. (General color a faintly-reddish gray, 

 more or less powdered with black. Head irrorated with white scales. Collar more 

 or less obviously tipped with white scales. Disc of thorax with a slight admixture of 

 whitish scales, giving it a hoary appearance in good specimens. Primaries with a 

 diffuse, blackish, powdery shade extending over the median vein, to or beyond the t. 

 p. line and, in some specimens, expanding so as to take in the darker terminal space. 

 In this dusky shading which is ihe dominant feature of the maculation, the orbicular 

 is variably indicated. Sometimes it is scarcely traceable ; sometimes a narrow circle 

 of white scales ; sometimes a concolorous disc of the ground color without powdering, 

 and this may or may not have a smoky center. The reniform consists of a prominent 

 white spot at the lower outer angle of the median cell, supplemented by scattered 

 white scales superiorly. T. a. line is completely traceable in one example as a narrow, 

 broken, outcurved, interrupted smoky line ; but is more usually indicated by venular 

 dots or is entirely wanting. T. p. line is a curved series of venular blackish dots, 

 followed and sometimes preceded by white scales. This also varies in distinctness ; 

 but is always traceable and usually obvious. The veins here are also more or less 

 speckled with white scales giving a somewhat hoary appearance. The veins are 

 otherwise smoky, darker outwardly. A black terminal line, and from this a dusky 

 shade may extend inwardly a variable distance. Fringes smoky or blackish, narrowly 

 cut with white and with a white dot at the base on the veins. Secondaries, white in 

 the male, or little yellowish soiled in the female, outer margin narrowly dusky, broader 

 on costa. Beneath, primaries gray, powdery, with a more or less obvious smoky outer 

 line. Secondaries powdery along costal margin only, and with a small discal dot 

 which may be wanting. Expands I.12-1.25 inches = 28-31 mm. 



Habitat. — Harris Co., Texas (Franck) ; Colorado Springs, VIII, 

 5, Colorado (Oslar). 



