NEW SPECIES OF NOCTUID MOTHS FROM TROPICAL 

 AMERICA. 



By William Schaus. 



The descriptions of the following 136 species of Noctuidse are from 

 specimens in my collection, now deposited in the United States 

 National Museum. With the exception of three species, they were 

 aU taken by myself and Mr. J. Barnes in British, Dutch, and French 

 Guiana. They have been carefully compared with the described 

 species in the great European collections and are undoubtedly new. 



ERIOPYGA DROMAS, new species. 



Female. — Body and fore wings lilacine ochreous; abdomen with 

 grayish brown irrorations. Fore wings: Some scattered fuscous 

 scales; lines faint; a subbasal line; antemedial geminate, inbent in 

 cell; orbicular and reniform faintly darker, outlined in a slightly 

 paler shade than ground color; an outcurved medial shade, inter- 

 rupted by reniform; postmedial outcurved, punctiform, black; sub- 

 terminal line pale, straight; terminal dark spots on interspaces. 

 Hmd wings grayish white, shaded with fuscous gray on termen. 

 Wings below paler; a dark postmedial line, and interrupted terminal 

 line; hind wings with fuscous gray shadings on either side of disco- 

 cellular. 



Expanse. — 30 mm. 



Habitat. — St. Laurent, Maroni River. 



Type.— C&t. No. 16525, U.S.N.M. 



ARGYROSTROTIS EURYSACES, new species. 



Male.- — Palpi fuscous brown, the third joint whitish gray. Head 

 white mottled with brown. Collar and thorax very dark brown. 

 Abdomen above deep yellow; a medial transverse fuscous brown 

 shade; the two terminal segments similar; anal hairs yellow. Fore 

 wings: Basal half dark steel color, shaded with dark brown on inner 

 margin and crossed by a similar outbent antemedial line; postmedial 

 space rich dark brown, edged by fine darker lines ; a triangular space on 

 costa indicated by fine white Unes, the apex entering reniform, which 



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