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Toxocniiipa Victoria Orote. 



$ 5. — Foro wings pale lilac gray, aul)irrorato, tins linos except iho Kiil)tor- 

 minal very indistinct. Orbicular a minute pure white dot. Ileniforni upright, 

 moderate, brown black or sometimes ociierous, resolved externally into detached 

 dots. Subterminal space darker shaded than the rest of the wing widening to 

 costa. Subterminal line vague, white or pale, waved. A series of interspaceal 

 black terminal dots ; fringes pale with an interior shade line. Hind wings j^ale 

 dusty fuscous with terminal shading ; beneath with very faint transverse shades ; 

 on the primaries a discal shading. Collar and vertex deep blackish brown, 

 velvety, discolorous with the gray thorax. A white line projecting in front 

 runs between the white antennal sockets and separates the paler brown clypeal 

 vestiture from the dark vertex; palpi grayish brown. 



Expanse, 48 m. m. Hahitat, Victoria (Gr. R. Crotch, in Mus. 

 Comp. Zoology). 



Resembles the European T. astragali H.-S., fig. 269), but differs 

 by the white orbicular and the evident subterminal line, as well as 

 the shape of the reniform. The genus is not previously registered 

 as American. It may be cited after Catocala, on page 43 of my List 

 of the Noctuidae of North America. 



Note. — Mr. Lintner kindly draws my attention to the fact that I 

 have omitted the following species regarded as common to Europe 

 and America from the " List." It should be cited under Eurois, on 

 page 12. The Polyphaenis herhacea of M. Guenee, unknown to me, 

 and cited under Eurois in the List, should be retained under its 

 original genus. E. herhida has the middle and hind tibiae spinose. 

 I do not verify the differences mentioned by M. Guenee ; in the fe- 

 male the white cloud beyond the reniform seems more conspicuous 

 in American specimens. I think they are the same. 



*Iierl)ida {W. F.) ; Guen., Noct. 2, p. 75. 



