Geometridae of the Argentine Republic. 309 
Tucumaa, in coll. Dognin. 
Walker’s type was from Venezuela, Druce’s from Central 
America. The species is widely distributed in South 
America. 
193. Erosina hyberniata (Guenee). 
Erosina hyberniata, Guenee, Spec. Gen. des Lep., ix, 149, 
tab. vi, 7 (1858).^ 
Sabulodes rusticata, Maassen, StiibeTs Reisen, Lep. 153, 
tab. viii, 1 (1890).^ 
Tucuman, 450 rn., in coll. L. B. Front; Tucuman and 
Los Vasquez, in coll. Dognin. 
Described from Brazil (^) and Ecuador (“). Another com¬ 
mon and widely-distributed species, reaching northward 
to Mexico and westward to Callao. 
194. Herbita asinana (Front), nov. sp. 
(Flate XLVIII, fig. 22.) 
42-46 mm. Antenna with very short j^ectinations, or long 
projecting teeth (hardly longer than width of shaft), well ciliated. 
Hindtibia moderately dilated. Forewing with apex acute, termen 
elbowed at R ^ ; hindwing with termen less even than in typical 
Herbita, etc., being very faintly waved, and minutely produced at 
R 3. Forewing greyish fawn-colour, finely irrorated with dark 
scales, the irroration weakest in terminal area; discal dot small, 
blackish ; a small, irregular whitish costal mark at or just beyond 
four-fifths, bounded proximally by some dark scales ; a faint grey 
costal mark between the whitish mark and the apex. Hindwing 
somewhat paler, unmarked, the presence of a discal dot faintly 
indicated by a few darkened scales. Undersurface of forewing 
paler than upper, with costal and distal margins narrowly, and apex 
more broadly, shaded with a slightly fuller colour—approaching 
that of uppersurface—but with the two shades not sharply differ¬ 
entiated. Undersurface of hindwing slightly more freckled than 
uppersurface, discal spot small, distinct, blackish. Face concolorous 
with forewing; thorax above and beneath concolorous wdth upper- 
and underside of forewing, abdomen with hindwing. 
Cacheuta, June 11, 1904 (W. M. Bayue), type in coll. 
L. B. Front; two other Js from same locality (coll. L. B. 
Front et coll. A. F. Bayue), in less fine condition, taken by 
an inspector on the railway, end of September or beginning 
of October, 1904. 
