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Euexythra trimaculata, new specks. 

 Bv John B. Smith. 



Head and thorax while, orbits of eyes and the vestiture of palpi bright red. Ab- 

 domen white, the segments ringed with bright red of variable width. In the 9 the 

 red is sometimes very faint orange covered with white scales. In the <$ on the con 

 trary the predominating color is sometimes red and it appears white banded. A row 

 of black dorsal spots, which are however often wanting. Primaries with an umber 

 brown or blackish fascia of variable width near the base — broadest at costa, outwardly 

 oblique to the submedian interspace and there usually terminated — occasionally there 

 is a narrower prolongation inwardly oblique to the internal vein ; another short band 

 of similar color from the costa near apex inwardly oblique to vein 5. A short upright 

 band from the inner margin near anal angle, to vein 2. In some specimens a double 

 spot at the end of the discal cell. The veins where they cross the brown kinds are 

 marked with yellow scales. Secondaries pure white, immaculate. Beneath, the 

 markings of primaries are faintly reproduced. Secondaries occasionally with a discal 

 spot. Anterior coxlv bright orange red, inside of anterior femora and tibia? brown. 

 Else underside white. 



Expands 1— 1.25 inches = 26—33 mm - Hab. Texas. 



This species has been heretofore confounded with phasma Harv., 

 which has the "Fore wings white, crossed by a broad irregular blackish 

 band from base to extremity of veins 3 and 4 where it stains the other- 

 wise white fringes." No trace of this band exists in the present species. 

 The ornamentation is similar in pattern and the present form has been 

 considered as one with the markings incomplete. In addition to the 

 color characters it offers others of a structural nature, to which I will draw 

 attention in a subsequent article. 



Notes and News. 



Mr. A. G. Butler writes, that while going over their Noctuidas recently, 

 lie caught sight of two specimens of Nolidce, right in the middle of the 

 HJrasiriidce and described by Walker (Cat. Lep. Het., 33, Suppl., pi. 3, 

 p. 795) asErastria pustulata. It at once struck'him that they were identical 

 with Argyrophyes nigrofasciata, and he kindly sent us the note. 



Nola nigrofasciata was described by Zeller in the Verh. k. k. Zool. - 

 Bot. Ges., XXII, p. 454, pi. II, f. 1 (1872), was first referred by Grote 

 (Buf. Bui., II, 152), to Rozselia and afterward (Can. Ent., IX, 237), to 

 Argyrophyes. Walker's specific name has of course undoubted priority 

 and the species must be known in future as A. pustulata Wlk. 



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The following is part of a letter from Mr. A. G. Butler to the former 

 Editor. 



"In Rev. G I). Hulst's article on Geometiukc (p. 222, Vol. II), lam 

 glad to note what he says about the use of the Hiibnerian "Tentamen" 

 names ; I strongly object to their adoption, on the following grounds : 



EsTOMiJi.u(iiiA Amfkicana. Vol. in. 3 April, 1887. 



