June, i 9 o8.] Smith : New Species of Noctuid^e. 95 



creamy head and collar, combined with the intensely black line be- 

 tween the antennae. The type is a female in good condition from 

 Mr. Tom Spalding and is the only example known to me. 



Taeniocampa mecrona, new species. 



Ground color dull creamy gray with scarcely a trace of red or brown. Head 

 and thorax concolorous, immaculate ; abdomen a little more smoky. Primaries with 

 all the maculation obscure, no color contrasts and no well defined lines or spots. 

 Basal line geminate, blackish, broken, traceable in all the specimens. T. a. line 

 well removed from base, rather even, outwardly oblique with a slight outcurve ; 

 geminate, but the inner line lost or barely traceable in most examples, while the outer 

 may be broken, a mere scattering of scales, or a rather broad diffuse fascia which is 

 never so dark as to be conspicuous. T. p. line geminate, very evenly outcurved over 

 the cell ; less distinctly so below; the outer portion of line punctiform, tending to 

 become lost. S. t. line pale, marked by a slightly darker preceding, powdery shade, 

 very even, almost parallel with the outer margin. A series of small, obscure, inter- 

 spaceal, terminal marks. Orbicular round, small or moderate in size, concolorous or 

 a little paler, not dark ringed. Reniform very obscure, upright, small, a little con- 

 stricted centrally, usually traceable by paler scales. Secondaries dull, even, smoky 

 in both sexes. Beneath whitish, more or less powdery ; primaries often smoky on 

 disc, sometimes with an extra-median darker line ; secondaries paler, powdery along 

 costa, with an extra-median line and discal spot. 



Expands, I-I.15 inches = 25-29 mm. 



Habitat. — Kaslo, British Columbia, in early July. 



A series of 2 c?c? and 6 9 9 from Mr. J. W. Cockle who called my 

 attention to the fact that it differed from T. communis Dyar, with 

 which it may be confused in collections. Of communis I have 14 3 

 and 9 9 V before me and, comparing them as grouped, the new species 

 differs obviously in the gray color, lacking all red or brown, while 

 the secondaries are uniformly smoky without yellowish tinge or lus- 

 trous appearance. On the whole it is also larger than communis, all 

 the females running larger than any male, while in the female com- 

 munis at hand most of the specimens are smaller than the average 

 male and none equal the largest of that sex. A single specimen may 

 not attract attention when mixed with communis but, once separated 

 out and compared as series, the differences are obvious. 



Leucania calpota, new species. 



Ground color brownish ochreous. Palpi brown at sides. Collar with three 

 narrow lines of metallic dark gray. Center of thoracic disc more or less metallic 

 gray, usually marked only on the posterior tuft. These scales are easily lost and are 

 completely present only in fresh examples. The primaries have the usual strigate 

 appearance ; the veins a litte paler, a darker line each side and a dusky line through 

 the middle of the interspace. There is a dusky shade over and below the median 



