T-ErcoXYCTA. AGRIOPODES* 0< 



Ab. 1. obliterates Fore wins; with the black markings defining 

 the post medial and subterminal lines almost obsolete. 



Hab. Canada; U.S.A., Massachusetts {Burg), 2 <$ , 2 2, New 

 York (Packard), 1 J, Evans Center (Grote), '6 6, » ? , Trenton 

 Falls (Doubleday), L cf, i £ type, Pennsylvania, Pittsburgh 

 (Eiifjtl), 1 J, Wisconsin, Virginia, Eowa, Missouri, Kansas. Krji. 

 JJ4-40 mUlim. 



Larva. Djar, Can. Bnt xxx. p. Hi. 



Cylindrical, green, smooth, the seta* very fine and single ; dorsal 

 and subdorsal lines white, narrow, with waved edges ; tubercles 

 i and ii with white points: a pinkish-red stigmatal line edged with 

 white below, distinct at extremities oulv. 



*3'U(). Leuconycta vesta. (Plato CXXIII. fig. 2<>.) 

 Microcalia vesta, Sehaus, Trans. Am. Ent. Soc. xxi. p. 223 (1894). 



cf. Head and thorax white ; palpi black-brown except at tips ; 

 sides of frons black-brown ; antennae brown except at base; pectus 

 and legs tinged with red-brown; abdomen white suffused with 

 brown, leaving white dorsal segmental lines. Fore wing silvery 

 white faintly tinged in parts with red-brown; a triangular black 

 subbasal spot on costa ; antemedial line very indistinct, oblique, 

 waved, with brown point in cell and black point in submedian 

 fold; orbicular defined by black on outer side, the reniform on 

 inner side and with a black fascia between them in cell, otherwise 

 undefined; postmedial line represented by a triangular black spot 

 on costa and traces of an oblique waved line with some black 

 points on it from vein 4 to inner margin ; three small black snots 

 on postmedial part of costa; subterminal line very indistinct, 

 white faintly defined on inner side by brownish, excurved below 

 vein 7 and at middle; a terminal series of black stria) ; cilia 

 chequered brownish and white. Hind wing white tinged with 

 red-brown : a terminal series of brown strue from apex to vein 2 

 slightly defined by white on inner side; cilia white ; the underside 

 tinned and irrorated with red-brown, a black discoidal point ami 

 terminal series of striae. 



Hab. Mexico (Sehaus), type t d in U.S. Nat. Mus. Exjy. 

 36 millim. 



Genus AGRI0P0DES, nov. 



Type, A.faMax. 



Proboscis fully developed ; palpi upturned, the 2nd joint reaching about, 

 to middle of frons and moderately fringed with hair, the 3rd moderate; frons 

 smooth; eyes large, round; antenna; ciliated; thorax clothed chiefly with 

 rough scale.-, ai.d without distinct crests; tibia; moderately fringed with hair; 

 abdomen with some rough hair at base and large basal crest. Fore wing with 

 the apex rounded, the teruien evenly curved and slightly crenulate ; \eins 3 

 and 5 from near angle of cell; 6 from upper angle; V) from 10 anastomosing 

 with 8 to form the areole ; 11 from cell. Hind wing with veins 8, 4 from 

 angle of cell; o obsolescent from middle of discocellulars; G, 7 from upper 

 angle; 8 anastomosing with the cell near base only. 



