208 NOCTUID-E. 



a curved white mark (Irfiiiofl by lilack on outer sidt* and l)clow from 

 cell to tlic black t»asal streak just l)C'forc antorat'dial line niul witli 

 Boaic black mffusion beyond it ; orbicular and reiiiforin wbito with 

 more or less brown in centres and incompletely defined by lilack, 

 the former round, open above and below ajid confluent with the 

 claviform, the latter large ; postmedial line double, strongly bent 

 outwards lielow costa, incurved at discal fold, below vein 4 incurved 

 to near claviform and slightly angled outwards on vein 1, somo 

 white ])oinls beyond it on costa ; Kubtcrminal line white, ill-defined, 

 irregularly dentate, crossed by a black streak from tcrmen below 

 vein 2, sometimes w ith sliort streaks above and below it ; a terminal 

 series of slight black lunules ; cilia chc(|uered fuscous and whitish. 

 Hind wing whitish suffused with fuscous brown, rather more 

 deejdy on terminal area ; a black terminal line ; cilia white with 

 brownish line at base ; the underside white irrorated with brown, 

 a discoidal spot and sinuous postmedial line showing through to 

 upperside. 



Ab. 1. viridescens. Head, thorax, and fore wing much darker 

 and more evenly suffused with purjilish fuscous and olive-green. 



Uab. U.S.A., Massachusetts, New York, 1 (J , 1 $ type muralis, 

 Georgia, 2 J type, Missouri, Texas, 1 cf , Florida {DouhUdiiy), 

 1 (J type viridescens. Ed'p. 38-44 millim. 



2348. Psaphida grotei. (Plate CI. iig. 18.) 



Valeria groiei, ■Morr. Bull. BufT. Soc. 3vat. Sci. i. p. 274 (1874); Smith, 

 Cat. Noct. N. Am. p. 111. 



(J. Head and thorax olive red-brown mixed with dark brown; 

 basal joint of antenna) white ; tegulac with dark brown medial 

 line ; dorsum of thorax with some white scales ; pectus and legs 

 brown mixed with whitish, the tarsi with white rings : abdomen 

 whitish thickly irrorated with dark brown, the dorsal crests dark 

 brown. Fore wing dark purplish brown mixed with olive-green 

 and slightly irrorated with white ; the veins streaked with blackish ; 

 Bubbasal line represented by some black scales below costa and in 

 cell ; a black streak below base of cell curved round at extremity 

 and running back above inner margin to near base; antcmedial 

 line indistinctly double, oblique, irregularly waved ; claviform 

 represented by a curved black mark from cell to antcmedial line ; 

 orbicular round with brown centre and white annulus defined by 

 black; rcniform large, white, its centre defined by fuscous; post- 

 medial line indistinctly double, strongly bent outwards below costa, 

 incurved at discal fold, strongly incurved below vein 4 to below 

 cell and excurved at vein 1, some white suflusion on inner area 

 before and beyond it ; subterminal lino whitish, angled outwards 

 at vein 7, dentate at veins 4, 3, strongly incurved in submedian 

 interspace and bent outwards to tornus, u l»lack patch beyond it on 

 vein 2, a terminal series of small black lunules defined by greyish. 

 Hind wing white, the veins dark on terminal half; a sinuous 



