June, 1908.] Smith: New Species of Noctuid.e.. 85 



One female example in fair condition received from Mr. Baird 

 who collected it and after whom I have named it, through Dr. 

 Fletcher. 



There is no very near ally to this species. It belongs obviously 

 to the lubricans series and stands next to atricincta, than which it is 

 much larger, quite different in ground color and without the obvious 

 transverse lines. So far as they go, however, the lines in bairdii cor- 

 respond in position with those of atricincta. As I understand it, only 

 the one example was taken. 



Aplectoides abbea, new species. 



Ground color whitish, more or less overlaid by mossy green and shaded with 

 blackish brown or gray. Head whitish, overlaid with green, sometimes slightly 

 reddish. Collar similar in color to the tip, which is edged with blackish at the base 

 of the small, blackish marked, anterior tuft. Thorax gray with greenish overlay, 

 patagia with black submargins; a black line at base of basal tuft. Abdomen whitish. 

 Primaries varying in shade and amount of green overlay, all the markings distinct. 

 Basal line geminate, black, white filled, extending to a small black basal line. T. 

 a. line geminate, black, outer portion best defined, included space more or less white ; 

 on the whole outwardly oblique, deeply incurved on the cell to avoid the larger, 

 irregularly ovate orbicular which is black ringed, the black inwardly edged with 

 white scales, concolorous or paler. Claviform moderate or small, narrow, outlined 

 in black, concolorous. Reniform large, kidney-shaped, varying somewhat in width, 

 black ringed, narrowly annulate with white, inferiorly a little dusky. A black bar 

 connects the ordinary spots inferiorly. T. p. line geminate, inner line more distinct, 

 black, lunulate, outer even, not so well marked, included space paler than ground : 

 outwardly bent from costa over cell, then very even, almost parallel with outer 

 margin. S. t. line sinuate, of the ground color, preceded by a darker shading which 

 tends to form black sagittate marks in the interspaces, just below costa and opposite 

 the cell. A series of black interspaceal terminal lunules. Secondaries dirty white 

 with a faint yellowish tinge ; a discal lunule, an extra-median line and a subterminal 

 shade band being obscurely indicated. There is a broken, brown, terminal line. 

 Beneath whitish, more or less powdery outwardly and along the costal margins ; all 

 wings with an extra-median dusky shade line and a smoky discal spot. 



Expands, 1. 60-1. 72 inches = 40-43 mm. 



Habitat. — Westminster, B. C. 



Three females in good condition from Dr. Barnes. The species 

 is intermediate between the eastern pressa and prasina in size and, 

 while at first sight it resembles a small prasina, the details of the 

 maculation are much nearer to those of pressa, which it does not 

 greatly resemble. I have associated it generically with pressa rather 

 than prasina ; but it is quite probable that eventually all the forms 

 must be placed together in one generic group. 



