172 THE CANADIAN ENTOMOLOGIST. 



Oxylos citrineilKS G. & R. 



Eyes a little narrower than Hdiothis, naked, unlashed ; tibia spinose ; 

 fore legs with a claw and three outer curved spines, besides the spinules. 

 Only slightly by the armature of the front legs and the narrower eyes and 

 smoother front does this differ from Heliothis, and I should prefer not to 

 separate it in future. Liicens and Spinosae are doubtfully in their right 

 place, and I should prefer to restrict Heliothis \.o armiger, phlogophagus 

 and luieitijictus, lupatus, citrinellus^ ciipes and nuchalis. 



Tripudia Gr. 



In T. Versuta, the lashless eyes are naked ; ocelli ; tibiae slender, un- 

 armed ; front smooth ; a ridge of scales behind the head. Sub-basal 

 space ochery ; basal dark fuscous ; median again darker, narrow ; a rivu- 

 lous black median shade ; t. p. line black, roundedly exserted opposite 

 reniform which is defined by a lilac shade ; s. t. line irregular, much 

 shaded before with black, partly followed by a lilac shade ; s. t. space an- 

 teriorly ochery ; squamation lustrous ; beneath discolorous with a pale 

 streak along internal margin and some yellow specks along costa ; hind 

 wings broken up with whitish and a dark discal lunule. Type Coll. Neu- 

 moegen. Whether distinct from Flavofasciata, I am not now certain. 

 The species is minute, pyralidiform. 



Spragueia Grote. 



This genus is so distinct from the European Erotyla, with its one 

 species, by the neuration, as I have shown, that to unite it would oblige 

 every genus in the sub-order dependant on neuration, to be subverted. 

 Dr. Herrich-Schaeffer expressed his opinion to me that the two were 

 distinct. The fore wings are narrower, the clypeus differs, the ornamen- 

 tation is peculiar in Spragueia. We have many species ; the genus comes 

 to our fauna from the South. 



Maiigramma Riibrosufftisa., fi. s. 



This species is fuscous, the underlying tint is a pale reddish, appearing 

 in the pale red subterminal line. iMale antennae ciliate. A little larger 

 than Laeiia. which is wholly griseous and fuscous. Fuscous lines double, 

 marked on costa of primaires ; s. t. line continuous, more broken into 

 dots on primaries. Fringes indisdinctly checkered. Upper surface of 

 wings similar ; the hind wings show a pale streak on submedian space ; 

 fringes on internal margin whitish. Body concolorous. Beneath ashen ; 



