AMERICAN LEPIDOPTERA. 299 



genera Cnaphalocrocis or Crocidophora. Our insect is undoubtedly a 

 Noctuid. 



The female primary entirely wants the characteristic pellucid spot 

 of the male. 



The wings are in either sex closely scaled, entire, while the char- 

 acter of the subobsolete ornamentation is Noctuidous. The primaries 

 have straight costal edge, slightly rounded at base in the male, some- 

 what produced apices and very slightly sinuate external margin ; hind 

 wings full and rounded. 



Antennae simple in either sex, fine and reaching to apical third. 

 Palpi moderate, porrect, free from the front which they do not exceed, 

 shortly scaled. Legs proportioned, slender, rather closely scaled ; 

 hind tibiae with two pairs of terminal spurs. Abdomen linear, with 

 minute tufts on the dorsum at base ; in the male exceeding the second- 

 aries with moderate genital tufts ; in the female as long as the hind 

 wings with a pointed termination. 



Pleraetholix bullula, Grote.— % 9- — Reddish-brown mixed with 

 blackish scales. In appearance the primaries, though not so highly colored, re- 

 mind us of Perigea xanthoides. The color is brighter in the male and in 

 either sex more or less broken by the admixture of dark scales. The ordinary 

 lines are hardly to be made out. In the best marked % specimens they are 

 indicated by blackish scales when the t. a. line may be detected below the dis- 

 cal impression, the t. p. line inwardly curved below the median nervure and 

 the subterminal, a little irregular, issuing from, or rather margining inwardly 

 at costa, a more or less evident apical white shade. A series of whitish costal 

 dots usually distinct. The most prominent feature of the ornamentation of 

 this species and one which unites both sexes is the prominent white or whitish 

 reniform spot. In one % specimen before me though, this spot is filled with 

 dark scales, but this is evidently unusual, as in six others it is distinct and 

 white. Secondaries dark with a median continued line edged outwardly with 

 whitish; fringes on both wings pale or whitish. Beneath rather pale, finely 

 irrorate; primaries with a blackish shade over the disc; secondaries with a 

 minute black discal dot and a very narrow, finely undulate median black line- 

 Head and thorax like primaries above. The female is darkest, less reddish and 

 more obscurely ornamented. Expanse 19 to 22 m. m. 

 Habitat. — Central Alabama in September. 



SPARGALOMA, Grote. 

 Ocelli. Antennae shorter than usual, simple, in the male shortly 

 ciliate. Head rather broad and impacted ; front square with project- 

 ing frontal scales; clypeal surface somewhat medially depressed. 

 Tongue moderate. Labial palpi about three times as long as the he id, 

 projected; 2d joint twice as long as the third, thickly scaled, pro- 



