640 KOCTUID^. 



narrow whitish dorsal line which is broken in the incisures ; sub- 

 dorsal line lost, indicated by a minute pale dot on anterior edge of 

 each segment. Subdorsal oblique patches forming distinct triangular 

 brown marks on joints 11 and 12, elsewhere obsolete, the one on 

 joint 12 edged behind by a pale transverse line. Substigmatal band 

 scarcely paler, sharply edged above by a dark shade, shading below 

 into the subventral area. Cervical shield slightly darker than body ; 

 spiracles black-rimmed ; tubercles blackish. — H. G. D. 



1102. Triphaena belfragei. (Plate LXXYIL fig. 16.) 



Ehynchagrotis belfraffei. Smith, Bull. U.S. Nat. Mus. 38, p. 20 (1890); 

 id. Cat. Noct. N. Am. p. 53. 



5 . Head and thorax ferruginous brown ; palpi black except at 

 tips ; pectus and legs black irroratcd with grey ; abdomen grey- 

 brown irrorated with fuscous, the anal tuft ferruginous. Fore 

 wing ferruginous brown, slightly irrorated with black ; an indistinct 

 double, curved, subbasal line from costa to submedian fold : an 

 indistinct oblique waved antemedial line ; orbicular and reniform 

 very faint, the former round ; postmedial line indistinct, double, 

 punctiform, bent outwards below costa, excurved to vein 4, then 

 incurved ; subterminal line slightly defined by fuscous on inner side, 

 angled outwards at vein 7 and excurved at middle ; a terminal 

 series of points ; cilia dull brown. Hind wing fuscous brown : 

 the cilia grey, with brown line at base ; the underside with the costal 

 area rufous, irrorated with black, an indistinct discoidal spot, curved 

 postmedial line, and traces of subterminal line. 

 Hab. U.S.A., Texas, 3 $ . E.vjj. 42 millim. 



1103. Triphaena trigona. (Plate LXXVII. fig. 17.) 



Ehynchagrotis cupidissima. Smith, Bull. U.S. Nat. Mus. 38, p. 24 (1890), 



nee Grote. 

 Ehynchagrotis trigona, Smith, Cat. Noct. N. Am. p. 53 (1893). 



Head and thorax red-brown, or grey-brown irrorated with a few 

 dark scales ; palpi black at sides, jjale at tips ; legs strongly irrorated 

 with black, the tarsi black ringed with white ; abdomen grey-brown, 

 the anal tuft rufous, the ventral surface rufous irrorated with black. 

 Pore wing red-brown or grey-brown, irrorated with black ; an indis- 

 tinct curved double subbasal line from costa to submedian fold ; a 

 double oblique waved antemedial line : orbicular and reniform with 

 pale annuli, the former oblique, elliptical, the latter moderate ; the 

 postmedial line minutely waved and with some dark points beyond 

 it on the veins, bent outwards below costa, excurved to vein 4, then 

 incurved ; the subterminal line slightly angled outwards at vein 7 

 and excurved at middle, defined by fuscous on inner side and with 

 a more or less prominent black patch before it at costa : a terminal 

 series of black points. Hind wing fuscous brown, the cilia whitish 

 with a brown line through them ; the underside greyish irrorated 

 Avith black, the costal area suffused with rufous, a dark discoidal 

 spot and curved postmedial line. 



