Proceedings of 
the United States 
National Museum 
SMITHSONIAN INSTITUTION + WASHINGTON, D.C. 
Vclume 120 1966 Number 3560 
NOTES AND DESCRIPTIONS 
OF SOME AMERICAN AGARISTINE MOTHS 
(LEPIDOPTERA: NOCTUIDAE) 
By E. L. Topp! 
The following notes on and descriptions of agaristine moths are pri- 
marily the result of studies of the noctuid fauna of Cuba but include 
comments on specimens from other areas of America. The studies 
have been based mainly on specimens in the collection of the U.S. Na- 
tional Museum, supplemented by material from the collections of C. 
P. Kimball, Barnstable, Mass., Ing. Fernando de Zayas Munoz and 
Dr. Pastor Alayo Dalmau, Habana, Cuba, and photographs of types 
in the British Museum (Natural History), supplied through the cour- 
tesy of D. S. Fletcher and the authorities of that institution. 
Euthisanotia unio Hiibner 
Euthisanotia unio Hiibner [1827-1831], Zutrige zur Sammlung exotischer Schmet- 
terlinge, Drittes Hundert, p. 12, figs. 431, 432. 
A single specimen labeled ‘“Havana, Cuba, Baker’”’ is in the col- 
lection of the U.S. National Museum. It undoubtedly represents a 
stray from the north, an introduced specimen, or one that has been 
1 Entomology Research Division, U.S. Department of Agriculture, Washington, 
D.C. 
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