482 



NOCTCTD^E. 





fringed with hair ; abdomen with dorsal series of crests. Fore wing with the apex 

 rectangular, the termen somewhat excised towards tornus, not crenulate ; veins 

 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 nearly fully developed from well above angle ; 6, 7 from 

 upper angle ; 8 anastomosing with the cell to middle. 



5728. Argillophora furcilla. 



Argillophora fwrcilla, Grote, Bull. Buff. Soc. Nat. Sci. i. p. 124(1873); 

 Smith, Cat. Noct. N. Am. p. 375. 



5 . Head, thorax, and abdomen pale pinkish with a few black 

 scales ; palpi blackish at sides except towards base ; frons with 

 black bars at middle and above ; abdomen with the crest on 3rd 

 segment tipped with black. Fore wing ochreous tinged with flesh-, 

 pink and slightly irrorated with black, except on costal area from 

 near base to apex, a darker shade along median nervure met by an 

 oblique shade from apex ; small black spots in base and middle of 

 cell ; a white streak on base of vein 1 ; an oblique V-shaped silvery 



Fig. 138. — Argillophora furcilla, £. !• 



white mark slightly defined by black, its inner arm on the disco- 

 cellulars, with an oblique white line slightly defined on inner side 

 by black from its lower extremity to the extremity of the streak on 

 vein 1 ; a terminal series of black points ; cilia with some black scales 

 at tips. Hind wing ochreous white suffused and irrorated with brown ; 

 a terminal series of dark striae ; cilia ochreous white with a dark line 

 through them ; the underside with small black discoidal spot and 

 traces of postmedial line excurved beyond the cell. 

 Hub. U.S.A., Alabama, 1 § type. Ex±). 30 millim. 



Genus ARGYROPASTA, nov. 



Type, A. tkermopera. 



Proboscis aborted, small ; palpi upturned, the 2nd joint reaching to vertex oi 

 head, the 3rd short ; frons smooth ; eyes large, round ; antennas of male 

 ciliated ; thorax clothed chiefly with scales and without distinct crests ; tibia? 

 slightly fringed with hair ; abdomen with dorsal series of crests, rather largf 

 on terminal segments. Fore wing rather narrow and elongate, the apex 

 rounded, the termen evenly curved and not crenulate ; veins 3 and 5 from near 

 angle of cell ; 6 from upper angle; 7, 8, and 10 stalked, 9 absent ; 11 from cell. 

 Hind wing with veins 3, 4 shortly stalked; 5 nearly fully developed from 

 below middle of discocellulars ; 6, 7 shortly stalked ; 8 anastomosing with the 

 cell to near middle. 



