890 A. E. Verrill — The Bermuda Islands. 



Prodenia eridania (Cram.); Dyar, List Lepid., p. 123. Figure 240. 

 Phalcena eridania Cram., Pap. Exot., iv, p. 133, pi. 358, figs. E, F, 1782. 

 Wings above, silvery gray, with irregular, small, black spots ; 

 under side of wings and body yellowish white. Length, with folded 

 wings, 18 mm . Jan., L. Mowbray. Widely distributed; southern U. 

 States; Central and South America. 



Anomis erosa Hiibner, Zutr. exot. Schm., p. 19, figs. 28*7, 288, 1818. 

 Dyar, List N. Amer. Lepid., Bull. No. 52, U. S. Nat. Mus., p. 205, Dec, 1902. 

 A handsomely colored moth ; fore wings above light brownish 

 orange on the basal half, but with a small brown basal patch ; dark 

 brown, varied with lighter brown, distally ; the two areas separated 

 by a thin crooked line of darker brown, which does not reach the 

 posterior edge, but joins another similar proximal transverse line 

 that curves outward; thus these lines bound an irregularly triangu- 

 lar, orange area, in which is a round brown spot, surrounding a well- 

 defined, small, white central-spot ; a dark brown reniform spot on 

 the brown area, beyond which is a third, incomplete, transverse, 

 brown line. The orange-brown areas, under a lens, are light orange, 

 specked with red-brown scales ; on the thorax is a tuft of similarly 

 colored long scales ; abdomen, above, yellowish brown with Avhite 

 borders. Hind wings below pale yellowish gray, specked with 

 brown scales, and crossed by a median and a marginal brown line ; 

 legs yellowish white. Length, with folded Avings, I7 mm ; of body, 

 14 mm . The larva feeds on the cotton plant (t. Dyar). 



In April, 1901, the most abundant moth that came in to cuir lights, 

 especially late at night,* was a geometrid moth with the wings dull 

 gray vaiying to light yellowish gray, both pairs of w r ings crossed 

 by a darker median band, and with two less distinct and imperfect 

 dark bands on the fore wings. 



A fresh specimen of the same moth was sent by Mr. L. Mowbray, 

 in January. Dr. H. G. Dyar, who has studied the specimens, thinks 

 it a new species, and has furnished the following description : 



Aids verrillata Dyar, n. sp. 



Allied to A. mxdtilineata Pack.; the wings similarly shaped and 

 marked. Light gray, varying to light ocherous, the ocherous persist- 

 ing in the gray specimens as a broad shade on both wings beyond 

 the t. ]). line. Lines pale gray, a shade darker than the wings, 

 obscure, waved ; t. a. line faint ; median more distinct, common to 



* This is the same moth mentioned above, p. 750, note, as t Heterogravnna. 



