598 



noctuid^;. 



black points on termen ; cilia greyish fuscous. Hind wing whitish 

 tinged with red-brown; cilia with a fine whitish line at base and 

 whitish tips ; the underside whitish irrorated with red-brown, a 

 slight discoidal spot and indistinct curved postmedial line. 



2 . Fore wing with the terminal half ochreons white tinged 

 with rufous, the medial and postmedial lines and the discoidal bar 

 defined on outer side by silvery scales. 



Hab. U.S.A., Texas, 1 J,l 2 type, Shovel Mts., 1 2, Ker- 

 ville, 2 $ . Exp. 20 millim. 



5S95. Eustrotia catiliua. 



Eustrotia catilina, Druce, Biol. Centr.-Am., Het. i. p. 312, pi. 20. f. 5 



(1889). 



5 . Head and teguke pale rufous ; palpi with some black at 

 sides ; frons with black bars at middle and above ; tegulse with 

 black medial line ; thorax black-brown mixed with some rufous ; 

 pectus and legs whitish, the tarsi black ringed with whitish ; 

 abdomen grey irrorated with brown, the ventral surface white 

 with small black sublateral spots. Pore wing purplish fuscous 

 irrorated with black to the medial line leaving some rufous at base 

 of costa, the terminal half rufous slightly irrorated with black ; 

 subbasal line represented by a small black spot on costa and curved 

 bar in submedian interspace ; antemedial line indistinctly double 

 faintly filled in with rufous and with small black spot at costa, 

 waved ; medial line black, slightly sinuous, oblique to below angle 

 of cell, then erect, a small triangular black spot beyond it on costa ; 

 postmedial line with small black spot at costa, then indistinctly 

 double, slightly bent outwards below costa and with some black 

 points on it beyond the cell, incurved below vein 4, a black patch 

 beyond it on costal area with some white points at costa and sligbi 

 rufous streak below costa ; subterminal line indistinctly double 

 filled in with whitish, excurved below vein 7 and at middle; a 

 terminal series of black points; cilia with slight blackish marks 

 at apex and above middle. Hind wing brown with a fine dark 

 terminal line ; cilia whitish ; the underside whitish irrorated with 

 brown, the costal and terminal areas tinged with rufous, a blackish 

 discoidal spot, rather punctiform postmedial and subterminal lines, 

 and terminal series of small lunules. 



Bab. Mexico, Tabasco, Teapa (B. H. Smith), 1 2 tvpe, Godmau- 

 Salvin Coll. Exp. 20 millim. 



5896. Eustrotia longena. (Plate CLXTI. fig. 23.) 

 Eustrotia longena, Schaus, Trans. Am. Ent. Soc. xxx. p. 154 (1904). 



£ . Head whitish mixed with rufous ; thorax fuscous with some 

 grey, the metathorax with slight rufous mark : abdomen fuscous; 

 pectus, legs, and ventral surface of abdomen whitish tinged with 



