NO. 3560 AGARISTINE MOTHS—TODD ial 
In general habitus, the female resembles Twerta sabulosa (Felder), 
especially the form albidisca Draudt, but may be easily distinguished 
by the shape of the postmedial line (bent basad in posterior half of 
forewing as far as outer margin of orbicular spot, then parallel to 
antemedial line to inner margin), by the presence of a fine, black, 
terminal line in both wings, by the black triangular patches at the 
apices of cells M2 and Cu, of the forewing, and by the narrower, 
fuscous, marginal band of the hindwing. 
Judging from the pattern of maculation and the sexual dimorphism, 
this species appears to be intermediate to the other American species 
placed in Twerta Walker and species of the genus Huscirrhopterus 
Grote. I do not believe that the American species should be placed 
in Tuerta or in the subgenus Misa Karsch, but as I do not have exam- 
ples of Tuerta chrysochlora Walker or Misa memnonia Karsch, the two 
type-species from Africa, it seems best for the present to follow previous 
workers in the generic placement of hemicycla and to include the fol- 
lowing species. 
Tuerta sabulosa (Felder) 
Agarista sabulosa Felder, 1874, in Felder, Felder, and Rogenhofer, Zoologischer 
Theil, vol. 2, no. 2, Lepidoptera, in Reise der Osterreichischen Fregatte 
Novara um die Erde ..., table 107, fig. 11;1875, ibid., explanation for tables 
(oopis 107, p:L- 
?Eusemia sabulosa (Felder).—Boisduval, 1874, Rev. Mag. Zool., ser. 3, vol. 2, 
p. 106. 
Metagarista sabulosa (Felder).—Butler, 1875, Ann. Mag. Nat. Hist., ser. 4, vol. 
Lo; p: 139: 
Seudyra sabulosa (Felder).—Neumoegen and Dyar, 1894, Journ. New York Ent. 
Soc., vol. 2, p. 19. 
Copidryas sabulosa (Felder).—Druce, 1896, in Godman and Salvin, Biologia 
Centrali-Americana, Insecta, Lepidoptera, Heterocera, vol. 2, p. 329. 
Tuerta (Misa) sabulosa (Boisduval).—Hampson, 1901, Catalogue of the Lepi- 
doptera Phalaenae in the British Museum, vol. 3, p. 625. 
Tuerta sabulosa (Boisduval).—Holland, 1903, The moth book, p. 143, fig. 81.— 
Hampson, 1920, Catalogue of the Lepidoptera Phalaenae in the British 
Museum, Supplement, vol. 2, p. 588.—Forbes, 1930, Scientific survey of 
Porto Rico and the Virgin Islands, vol. 12, pt. 1, p. 43. 
Tuerta sabulosa (Felder).—Strand, 1912, Lepidopterorum catalogus, pt. 5, p. 29.— 
Draudt, 1919, in Seitz, Die Gross-Schmetterlinge der Erde, vol. 7, p. 5, pl. 1, 
row b, row a (forms albidisca and albiplaga). 
Misa sabulosa (Boisduval).—Dyar, 1903, Bull. 52, U.S. Nat. Mus., p. 96, no. 942.— 
Barnes and McDunnough, 1917, Check List of the Lepidoptera of Boreal 
America, p. 36, no. 1037.—McDunnough, 1938, Mem. So. California Acad. 
Sci., vol. 1, p. 53, no. 1107.— Wolcott (1948) 1951, Puerto Rico Univ. Journ. 
Agric., vol. 32, p. 581. 
Agarista noctuiformis Méschler, 1890, Abh. Senck. Naturf. Ges., vol. 16, p. 112.— 
Gundlach, 1891, Soc. Espaf. de Hist. Nat. Ann., vol. 20, p. 153.—Hampson, 
1901, Catalogue of the Lepidoptera Phalaenae in the British Museum, 
vol. 3, p. 625 (as synonym of sabulosa). 
