242 NOCTUID^E. 



Ab. 2. stellata. Fore wing with, the two spots not ringed with 

 pink, the postmedial series of white points more prominent ; hind 

 wing almost wholly suffused with pink. 



Hub. U.S.A. (Doubleduy), 1 $ type, Massachusetts (Grote), 2 <$, 

 6 2 i New York, Rhode I., 1 c? , South to Florida and West to 

 Mississippi States. Exp. 24-30 millim. 



Genus STIRIA. 



Type. 



Stiria, Grote, Bull. Buff. Soc. Nat. Sci. ii. p. 73 (1874) rugifrons. 



Proboscis fully developed ; palpi obliquely porrect, extending to just beyond 

 the frons, the 2nd joint moderately fringed with hair below, the 3rd short ; 

 irons with large heart-shaped corneous prominence with raised edges, its 

 lower edge produced to a point, a corneous plate below it ; eyes large, round ; 

 antenna? of male laminate and minutely ciliated ; thorax clothed with rough 

 scales, the pro- and metathorax with spreading crests, the patagia curled 

 upwards at extremity ; tibia? moderately fringed with hair, the fore tibiaj with 

 large curved claw on inner side; abdomen without crests. Fore wing with 

 the apex produced and acute, the ternien oblique below vein 4 and crenulate, 

 the tornus with slight scale-tooth ; veins 3 and 5 from near angle of cell ; 6 

 from upper angle; 9 from 10 anastomosing with 8 to form theareole ; 11 from 

 cell. Hind wing with veins 3, 4 from angle of cell ; 5 obsolescent from below 

 middle of discocellulars ; 6,7 shortly stalked ; 8 anastomosing with the cell 

 near base only. 



A. Fore wing with grey-brown patch on medial inner area. 



a. Fore wing yellow. 



a 1 . Fore wing with the patch on medial area large and 



irregularly quadrate rugifrons. 



b l . Fore wing with the patch on medial area much 



smaller and conical sulphurea. 



b. Fore wing grey-white consuela. 



B. Fore wing without grey-brown patch on medial inner 



area. 



a. Fore wing with broad pale medial band hutsoni. 



b. Fore wing without pale medial band fuliginosa. 



4619. Stiria rugifrons. 



Stiria rugifrons, Grote, Bull. Buff. Soc. Nat. Sci. ii. p. 73 (1874) ; Bruce, 

 Biol. Centr.-Am., Het. ii. p. 484, pi. 94. f. 9 ; Smith, Cat. Noct. N. Am. 

 p. 262. 



Palpi and frons whitish mixed with brown, vertex of head pale 

 yellow, antennae brownish ; thorax brown mixed with white and 

 black, the tegulse pale yellow towards base ; pectus and legs 

 whitish mixed with brown ; abdomen yellowish white. Fore wing 

 greenish yellow faintly irrorated with brown ; a slight brown sub- 

 basal line from costa to vein 1 and a diffused brown patch above 

 inner margin ; a brown point in cell before the antemedial line, 

 which is indistinct, oblique and sinuous to submedian fold, then 

 inwardly oblique and angled inwards on vein 1 ; medial area with 

 large red-brown patch from submedian fold to inner margin ; 

 orbicular hardly defined except by brown stria? on inner and outer 



