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diminishing and terminating upon the third median nervule. There is an obscure ir-
regularly curved sub-basal transverbe line and a similar transverse limbal line which runs from the costa beyond the middle
obliquely to the third median nervule about its middle, and then sweeps inwardly with three ii regular scallops to about the middle of the inner margin. The secondaries are pale fulvous. On the under side, both the primaries and the secondaries are pale ful- vous with obscure and incomplete geminate transverse limbal lines. The white spot at the end of the cell on the upper surface re- appears indistinctly upon the lower side. 9.
The markings in the female sex are
very much as in the male, with this difference that the white discal spot in the primaries is in all specimens before me, save one, replaced by a dark brown spot. In one case, the
silvery-white scales reappear, but far more indistinctly than in any male. Expanse f, 50 to 65 mm.; 9, Sj to 100 mm.
I have over forty specimens of this species. male and female, reared ex larva.
I hope to
be able to give shortly an account of the life history of the species.
PINARIDAE.
GONOMETA, Walk.
190. G. 6roto2ssa, sp. nov. J.
Front, pec-
tus, and upper side of thorax rich maroon; upper side of abdomen uniformly steely-blue; lower side of thorax and abdomen ferruginous. Primaries rich maroon with a silvery dot encircled by black at the end of the cell; a yellow subtriangular spot below the cell near the base. On the middle of the wing there are two obscure parallel zigzag blackish lines running from the apex diagonally to the
middle of the inner margin. The secondaries have the costa dusky-ferruginous ; the re- mainder bluish-black. On the under side, the primaries are maroon, heavily clouded with blackish on the cell and middle area. The secondaries are colored much as on the upper side.
9. The female has the body as the male,
but much larger. The upper side of the
abdomen is brilliant steel-blue with an
orange colored tuft of hairs at the anal ex- tremity. Both primaries and secondaries on the upper and lower sides are uniformly rich maroon. Expanse f, 65 mm; 9, 95 to
coo mm.
There is less disparity between the sexes than ib the case in some other species of the genus.
NOCTUIDAE.
GIGANTOCERAS, gen. nov.
Allied to Risoba, Moore. The palpi are
not as closely compressed as in that genus ; the second and third joints iire longer, less hairy, and more attenuated than in Risoba. The antennae are very long.
In Risoba they
are not quite equal in length to the cosbi of the primaries ; in Gigantoceras, they are from fully one-half to twice as long again as the costa of the primaries, and are directed for- ward. They are minutely serrated at the
base. The legs are also relatively much
longer than in Risoba and not so hairy.
The
tibiae of the third pair have a subtenninal and two minute terminal spurs: in Risoba the spurs are prominent. The primaries are relatively shorter and broader than in Risoba. The neuration so far as I have been able to ascertain does not differ from that of Risoba. Type G. solstitialis, Holl.
191.
G. solstifialis, sp. nov. f. Antennae
one-half longer than the costa of the prim- aries, very slender; palpi and front fuscous ; collar brown; patagia and upper side of thorax white; lower side of thorax and entire abdo- men fuscous. . The primaries are obscure fuscous with a dark brown apical patch, and the base and inner margin prevalently




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clouded with the same color. The inner
margin for one-third of the distance from the base is covered with silvery white scales. In the middle ofthis white longitudinal mass of scales is a minute brown spot. The secon- daries are pale fuscous with the outer margins broadly blackish. The fringes of the prim- aries and the secondaries are light fawn and obscurely checkered with darker brown at the ends of the nervules. On the under side, both wings are pale fuscous with the neurations, an obscurely defined discal mark, and the margins from a little beyond the cell dark fuscous. The fringes are paler, and not
checkered as on the upper side. Expanse, 30 mm.
192. G. (2') geometrofltera, sp. nov. 3. Antennae twice as long as the costa of the primaries. The primaries have the outer
margin relatively longer and straighter than in the preceding species with the inner margin relatively shorter. The front is brown ; the thorax on the upper side olivaceous-green; the upper side of the abdomen fuscous; the lower side of the thorax and the abdomen pale gray. The primaries are pale olivaceous traversed by geminate basal, sub-basal, med- ian, and limbal transverse lines of darker olive-green; darkest in the region of the costa. The nervules at their extremities are marked with short blackish rays, and at the apex there is a series of similar blackish mark- ings enclosing a wood-brown <-shaped apical patch. There is an obscure white spot in the middle of the cell surrounded by pale oliva- ceous, a linear discal mark at the end of the cell dotted at either extremity by dark brown, and beyond the cell an obscure annulus of pale olive-green, margined with darker olive. Near the outer angle there is a brownish patch of scales. Before the geminate sub- basal transverse line just above the inferior vein there is a small white dot. On the
margins there are lunulate dark brown mark- ings on the interspaces, and the fringes are pale. The secondaries are pale fuscous with the margins broadly darker brown, and an obscure discal dot at the end of the cell. On the under side both wings are very pale
fuscous with the neurations dark brown and distinctly defined upon the paler ground. A broad blackish incomplete band runs from the costa near the end of the cell to the origin of the lower radial nervule, coalescing on the costa and at the origin of the radial with a broad blackish outer marginal band, which sweeps inwardly to the point of union.
Enclosed between these two markings is a large suboval whitish spot. The end of the cell in the secondaries is marked by a broad obscurely defined blackish spot, and the margins are broadly blackish. The fringes are whitish. Expanse, 33 mm.
The greater relative breadth of the wings in this species and the lack of a patch of raised scales on the inner margin of the prim- aries lead me to refer the insect with a little
doubt to this genus.
My specimen is unique
and I do not care to dissect without more material.
METALEPTINA, gen. nov.
Allied to Leptina, Guen. The palpi are
longer than in Leptina, and have the third joint long, aciculate, directed upward. The antennae are as in Guende's genus. The legs are much more densely clothed with scales, especially the third pair, which have the tibiae very heavily clothed with long scales, armed with long spurs, two at the base and one just before it. The primaries are not as long relatively as in Leptina, and relatively broader. On the inner margin at the base, the primaries are clothed with a linear patch of long raised scales. The neuration of the primaries and secondaries is the same as in Leptina, so far as I have been able to ascer- tain by careful comparison, without making microscopic mounts of the wings. Type, M. mg'rzbasis, Holl.




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193. M. a/g;+basis, sp. nov. a., The
lower sides of the palpi are pale fulvous-gray. The upper sideof the palpi, the front, collar, patagia, and upper side of the thorax are blackish brown. The upper side of the
abdomen is fuscous, darkest on the dorsal line. The under sides of the thorax and
abdomen and the legs are pale gray. The
primaries on the upper side are pale wood- brown with a pinkish reflection shading into darker brown toward the apex and the outer margin. The patch of raised scales on the inner margin at the base is dark blackish- brown like the costa. The primaries are
traversed from the costa just before the apex to the middle of the inner margin by a
narrow dark brown straight line, bordered externally by a paler parallel line." The secondaries are fuscous, darkest on the outer margins. On the under side the primaries are pale fuscous, with the costa and the middle area darker. The outer margin of
this darker median area is sharply defined as a curved line, which is followed by a paler shade. The outer margin is darker, and at the end of the cell there is an obscure discal mark. The secondaries on the lower side are paler than the primaries and are traversed by an obscure curved transverse limbal line. The margins are obscurely bordered with
darker fuscous. Expanse, 30 mm.
194. M. albibasis, sp. nov. 3. Lower
side of pal pi pale ferruginous.
Front, collar,
patagia, upper side of thorax, and abdon~en fawn ; lower side of thorax and abdomen and legs very pale cinereous. The primaries on the upper side are pale wood-brown, or fawn, traversed from the costa before the apex to the inner margin two-thirds of the distance from the base by a narrow irregularly, and slightly curved darker line, bordered exter- nally by very narrow paler lines. The raised patch of scales on the inner margin at the base is whitish defined on its upper margin by a darker shade which extends outwardly along the inner margin to the termination of the narrow transverse limbal line. There is an obscure round dark spot in the middle of the cell, an obscure linear mark of the same color at its end. The secondaries are uniformly pale fuscous. On the under side, both
wings are pale fuscous. The primaries have the middle area and the costa clouded with darker brown, the outer margin of this darker area being well defined against the paler marginal area. The fringes of the primaries are dark brown. The secondaries are tra- versed from the costa beyond its middle by a curved incomplete transverse limbal band of dark brown. The fringes of the secondaries are concolorous. Expanse, 25 mm.
195. M. obliterata, sp. nov. 3. Head
whitish.
Collar, patagia, and upper side of
thorax dark cinereous. Upper side of
abdomen pale brown; lower side of thorax and abdomen with legs whitish. The
primaries are pale ferruginous. At the end of the cell, there are two small spots of whitish raised scales margined with blackish. Beyond the cell there is a narrow and very obscure transverse limbal line, regularly curved out- wardly, running from the costa before the apex to the inner margin two-thirds of the distance from the base. The patch of raised scales on the inner margin at the base is cinereous, defined on its upper side by a brownish spot. The secondaries are uniformly pale creamy, tinged on the outer margin with fuscous. On the under side both wings are shining creamy with the fringes of the prim- aries dark brown, and a faint brownish shade on the upper margin of the cell below the costa. Expanse, 30 mm.
DINOTODONTA, gen. nov.
Allied to Dasunaga, Moore.
The palpi are
short, ascending, compressed, scarcely reach- ing beyond the vertex; the third joint is very short, hemispherical ; the second joint rela- tively very long. The antennae in the male are simple, slightly ciliated on the lower side



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near the base, and three-fourths as long as the and seven are stalked. Vein eight curves costa of the primaries. The legs are long, downwardly to the upper margin of the cell naked, the second pair with a long slender near thebase, and then diverges widely and terminal spur, the third pair with double sub- terminates upon the costa a trifle before the terminal and double terminal spurs, likewise apex. Type Dinotodon-ta Tonga, Holl. slender, the inner member of each pair being This genus shows in the neuration affinity longer than the outer.
Theabdomen is much
to the Notodontidae, but together with the produced beyond
the inner margin of the two immediately subsequent genera is in my secondaries, slender, and lightly tufted with judgment more properly referred to the long hairs at the tip. The vestiture of the noctuids, the simple antennae and the long abdomen is smooth, appresked.
The patagia
legs being more characteristic of the noctuids are relatively long, covering the insertion of than of the notodonts, although the genus both wings. The primaries are narrow, Scrancia, which I have referred to the noto- elongated, slightly curved on the costa, donts, in its neuration conies very near this evenly rounded on the outer margin, and and the two following genera. bilobed on the inner margin, the
first lobe being just beyond the base,
the second about the middle of the
wing. Beyond this second lobe, the
inner margin of the wing is straight.
The secondaries are subtriangular;
the costa is arched beyond the base,
pointed at the apex, nearly straight
along the outer margin, and slightly
curved on the inner margin. In the
primaries the internal vein has two
branches, the lower one extending
from the base to the outer edge of
the second lobe of the inner margin,
the upper extending to the outer
angle. The radial springs from the
middle of the discocellulars. There
Dinotodonta longa, Holl. 8, ?.
is an areole at the upper angle of the cell, 196. D. longs, sp. nov. 3. Palpi, head, from which veins six to ten spring.
Veins
collar, and thorax dark brown; upper side of seven and eight are emitted from nine beyond abdomen fuscous ; lower side of thorax and the upper angle of this areole.
Vein eleven is
abdomen and the legs paler. Primaries on given offbeyond the middle of the cell. Vein the upper side pale vandyke brown, trav- twelve is straight and terminates upon the ersed by a broad band of dark vandyke brown costa three-fourths of the distance from the beyond the middle, which is defined exter- base. In the secondaries the inferior vein nally and internally by heavy dark brown has two branches, the innermost terminating lines, which are produced on the nervules, the an the anal angle, the outermost widely sep- outerrnost very irregularly curved and fusing arated from it, the outer margin being with a dark brown ray, which extends from slightly lobed between the extremities ofthese the apex inwardly.
There is a dark vandyke
veins.
The radial is given off from the mid-
brown basal shade bordered externally with a die of the discocellulars, which form an angle curved sub-basal dark line. The inner margin with each other pointing inwardly.
Veins six
where lobed is dark like the basal area. The



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