420 ENTOMOLOGICAL NEWS. [Nov. , '08 tennae 25-jointed, third joint but little longer than fourth, the last five joints but little longer than wide; sides of the supercly.peal area de-pressed ; clypeus round on anterior margin ; mesonotum shining, im-punctate, except anterior lobe, which finely punctured; scutellum with well-scattered, small punctures; mesopleura shining, impunctate ; meta-thorax smooth, shining, without an areola ; posterior femora rather robust; posterior tibiae tapering from base to apex; first joint of hind tarsi a little longer than 2. .3 ; tarsal claws simple ; stigma angulate beneath ; first abscissa of radius a little longer than second, but not as long as the oblique transverse cubitus ; second transverse cubitus about equal to the second abscissa of radius ; second cubital cell pointed at base beneath ; basal nervure bent ; transverse median more than half its length beyond basal nervure ; abdomen impunctate ; lateral carinas of first dorsal segment more or less developed. Color, reddish-yellow ; antennae, eyes, black spot enclosing ocelli, middle lobe of mesonotum. scutellum, metathorax, mesopleura and mesopectus ; spot on apical dorsal segments of abdomen, sheath, black; apex of hind tibiae and their tarsi infuscated ; wings hyaline, iridescent, apical third a little darker, nervures and stigma pale brown; dorsulum of abdomen and legs with short reddish-yellow pubescence. Habitat. Geneva, Nebraska. Type in the collection of the University of Nebraska, paratype in author's collection. This species is quite distinct from /. abdominalis Cress, the only other species of this genus, being known at once by the different color abdominalis has the head and thorax black. One Day's Collecting, with a Description of a new Noctuid. BY ALEX. KWIAT, Chicago, 111. On Decoration Day, May 30, 1908, the writer, with Messrs. Beer and Kidlica, went on a collecting trip to Hessville, Ind., where we were joined by Will Hartman, Jr., who resides there, making a party of four, all Lepidopterists. Hessville, Indiana, is just four miles east of the Illinois line and about four or five miles south of Lake Michigan. It is not strictly in the sand dune region, although there are occa-sional blow holes and shifting ridges. Generally speaking, it may be described as a succession of sloughs and sandy ridges, the latter usually covered with stunted oak, hop elm, cotton-wood, the small-leaved poplar, some willow, birch, sassafras,
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