286 NOcri'iD.E. 



spots ; cilia ochreous white mixed with brown. Hind wing 

 ochreous white, the terminal halt' slightly tinged with brown ; a 

 tine waved brown terminal line from apex to submedian fold ; the 

 underside with the costal area irrorated with brown, a brown 

 discoidal spot. 



ffab. Xatat., Durban (Krauss), 1 $ type. Exp. 32 millini. 



4687. Arenostola stigmatica. (Plate CXLIII. fig. 17.) 



Leucania stigmatica, Ev. Bull. Mosc. 1855, iii. p. 191 ; Staud. Cat. Lep. 



pal. p. 188. 

 Ta/pinosiola lagunica, Gra?s. Berl. cut. Zeit. xxxii. p. 344 (1S88). 



d . Head and thorax pale ochreous slightly tinged with rufous ; 

 the palpi, sides of frons, and legs tinged with brown ; abdomen pale 

 ochreous tinged with brown, the anal tuft with rufous. Fore wing 

 pale ochreous slightly tinged with rufous ; a diffused streak of 

 black scales below base of cell, and another in and beyond lower 

 extremity of cell ; a whitish mark at lower angle of cell ; the veins 

 towards termen with slight brown streaks; a terminal series of 

 slight brown lunules ; cilia brown with pale lines near base and 

 near tips. Hind wing white tinged with ochreous ; cilia with 

 brownish line near base and white tips ; the underside slightly 

 irrorated with brown, a slight dark discoidal striga. 



Hal). Uussia, Urals ; Mongolia, Uliassutai, 1 <J ; E, Siberia, 

 Kentei, Amurland. Exp. 30 millim. 



4688. Arenostola defecta. (Plate CXLIII. lig. IS.) 



Senta defecta, Grote, 6th Rept. Peab. Ac. Sci. p. 29 (1S74) ; id. Bull. Buff. 

 Nat. Sci. ii. pi. 1. f. 4 ; Smith, Cat. Noct. N. Am. p. 183. 



2 . Head, thorax, and abdomen pale grey tinged with red-brown. 

 Fore wing pale grey tinged with red-brown : a red-brown shade in 

 and below cell expanding beyond the cell to termen below apex, 

 the veins beyond the cell defined by pale streaks above and below ; 

 the terminal half of median uervure streaked with white ; a narrow 

 blackish discoidal lunule, its lower half with white annulus ; a 

 postmedial series of black points on veins 7 to 1, oblique below 

 vein 6 ; a terminal series of black points. Hind wing brownish 

 white ; traces of a curved postmedial line ; a terminal series of 

 dark points from apex to vein 2 ; the underside with faint dis- 

 coidal points. 



Hah. U.S.A., 1 $ type, Eastern, Middle, and Central States, 

 Massachusetts, Xew York, Maryland. Exp. 32 millim. 



4689. Arenostola procera. (Plate CXLIII. fig. 19.) 



Tapinostola procera, Staud. Stett. ent. Zeit. 188!', p. 47 ; id. Cat-. Lep. 

 pal. p. 189. 



Head and thorax ochreous white mixed with brown ; palpi and 

 legs brownish ; abdomen ochreous white tinged with brown. Fore 



