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reddish brown, the basal and inner areas paler in male ; cilia brown, 

 with fine pale line at base and white tips ; the underside pale with 

 small discoidal spot and indistinct sinuous postmedial line. 



Hah. Germany, E. Saxony ; Austria, Trey Coll., Carniola, 

 Zeller Coll. ; Hungary, Leech Coll. ; Switzerland, Leech Coll. ; 

 Galicia ; K.UMELIA ; KussiA ; Asia Minor, Pontus. Exp. 38-46 

 millim. 



Larva. Kirby, Butt. & Moths Eur. p. 254. 



Green with yellowish dorsal and subdorsal lines and white 

 lateral line. Food-plant, seeds of Scrojphularia vernaUs. 6. 



*2169. CucuUia oribac. 



Cucullia oribac, Barnes, Can. Ent. xxxvi. p. 237 (1904). 



c?. Differs from C. agiia in the fore wing being without the 

 •dark patch and white subcostal spot at base ; orbicular and reniform 

 absent ; cilia with white points at base at extremities of veins ; the 

 medial area with three oblique dark striae from costa, with the area 

 below them tinged with pale brown to median nervure, the 3rd 

 striga continued to termen below apex, the area above it greyer 

 with slight dark streaks ; the brown-shaded costal area towards 

 apex longer and narroAver than in C. agiut ; the inner area greyer 

 with the veins darker ; the black fascia on inner margin slighter ; 

 the pale dark-defined portion of postmedial line on inner area 

 rather S-shaped and oblique. Hind wing with the dark-suffused 

 terminal area darker. 



Hah. U.S.A., Arizona, Huaehuca Mts. Exp. 47 millim. 



This species is unknown to me, it may perhaps be the same as 

 C. perstrir/ata, Schaus. 



Genus ARGYROGALEA, nov. 



Type, A. argent ea. 



Proboscis fully developed ; palpi short, obliquely upturned, fringed with 

 hair on both sides ; froiis with slight rounded prominence ; eyes large, rounded ; 

 antennre almost simple in both sexes ; head and thorax clothed with hair only, 

 the teguloe produced behind into a hood, the metathorax with double crest ; 

 tibias fringed with long hair on outer side ; abdomen with dorsal crests on basal 

 segments. Fore wing rather long and narrow, the apex produced and the 

 termen oblique ; Teins 3 and 5 from near angle of cell ; 6 from upper angle, 

 9 from 10 anastomosing with 8 to form the areole ; 11 from cell. Hind wing 

 with veins 3, 4 from angle of cell ; 5 obsolescent from just below angle of 

 discocellulars ; 6, 7 froni upper angle ; 8 anastomosing with the cell near 

 base only. 



2170. Argyrogalea argentea. 



Nodua argentea, Hiifn. Berl. Mag. iii. p. 286 (1767); Esp. Schmett. iv. 

 pi. 109. tf. 6-9; Knoch, Beitr. i. p. 45, pi. 3. fl'. 1, 2 ; Cram. Pap. Exot, 

 IV. p. 242, pi. 400. f. G ; Stand. Cat. Lep. pal. p. 217. 



Noctua arteiiiisicB, Schiff. Wien. Verz. p. 312 (1776), nee Hiifn. ; Cram. 

 Pap. Exot. iv. p. 223, pi. 396. f. G ; Hubn. Eur. Schmett., Noct. f. 259; 

 VOL. VI. a 



