890 A. E. Verrill— The Bermuda Islands. 
Prodenia eridania (Cram.); Dyar, List Lepid., p. 123. Figure 240. 
Phalena eridania Cram., Pap. Exot., iv, p. 183, pl. 358, figs. E, F, 1782. 
Wings above, silvery gray, with irregular, small, black spots ; 
under side of wings and body yellowish white. Length, with folded 
wings, 18", Jan., L. Mowbray. Widely distributed; southern U. 
States; Central and South America. 
Anomis erosa Hiibner, Zutr. exot. Schm., p. 19, figs. 287, 288, 1818. 
Dyar, List N. Amer. Lepid., Bull. No. 52, U. S. Nat. Mus., p. 205, Dec., 1902. 
A handsomely colored moth ; fore wings above light brownish 
orange on the basal half, but with a small brown basal patch ; dark 
brown, varied with lighter brown, distally ; the two areas separated 
by a thin crooked line of darker brown, which does not reach the 
posterior edge, but joins another similar proximal transverse line 
that curves outward; thus these lines bound an irregularly triangu- 
lar, orange area, in which is a round brown spot, surrounding a well- 
defined, small, white central-spot ; a dark brown reniform spot on 
the brown area, beyond which is a third, incomplete, transverse, 
brown line. The orange-brown areas, under a lens, are light orange, 
specked with red-brown scales ; on the thorax is a tuft of similarly 
colored long scales ; abdomen, above, yellowish brown with white 
borders. Hind wings below pale yellowish gray, specked with 
brown scales, and crossed by a median and a marginal brown line ; 
legs yellowish white. Length, with folded wings, 17™™ ; of body, 
14™", The larva feeds on the cotton plant (t. Dyar). 
In April, 1901, the most abundant moth that came in to our lights, 
especially late at night,* was a geometrid moth with the wings dull 
gray varying to light yellowish gray, both pairs of wings crossed 
by a darker median band, and with two less distinct and imperfect 
dark bands on the fore wings. 
A fresh specimen of the same moth was sent by Mr. L. Mowbray, 
in January. Dr. H. G. Dyar, who has studied the specimens, thinks 
it a new species, and has furnished the following description : 
Alcis verrillata Dyar, n. sp. 
Allied to A. multilineata Pack.; the wings similarly shaped and 
marked. Light gray, varying to light ocherous, the ocherous persist- 
ing in the gray specimens as a broad shade on both wings beyond 
the t. p. line. Lines pale gray, a shade darker than the wings, 
obscure, waved ; t. a. line faint ; median more distinct, common to 
* This is the same moth mentioned above, p. 756, note, as ? Heterogramma, 
