652 noctuid^;. 



median fold to inner margin ; traces of a postmedial line excurved 

 to vein 4, then oblique ; traces of a diffused subterminal line ; a fine 

 whitish line at base of cilia. Hind wing dark brown, tbe cilia greyer 

 and faintly tinged with purple. 



2 • Fore wing with the terminal half of costa, the terminal area, 

 and cilia greyish brown. 



Hub. U.S.A., Eastern, Middle, and Central States, Massachusetts, 

 Newton (Thaxter), 2 rf , 1 $ type. Exp. d 26, ? 22 millini. 





*5988. Exyra fax. 



Xanthoptera fax, Grote, Trans. Am. Ent. Soc. iv. p. 295 (1873) ; Smith, 

 Cat. Noct. N. Am. p. 306. 



Head and thorax orange-yellow ; abdomen brownish black. Fore i 

 wing brownish black slightly irrorated with orange-red scales 

 forming two faint patches in cell ; cilia tipped with orange-red. 

 Hind wing brownish black. 



I fab. U.S.A.., Delaware, Georgia. Exp. 12 millim. This species 

 is uuknown to me. 



5989. Exyra ridingsi. (Plate CLXVIII. fig. 19.) 



Xanthoptera ridingsii, Riley, Trans. St. Louis Acad. Sci. iii. p. 240, f. 12 



(1874) ; Smith, Oat. Noct. N. Am. p. 306. 

 Xanthoptera nigrocaput, Morr. Proc. Bost. Soc. N. H. xvii. p. 153 (1874). 



<$ . Head, tegulaa, and patagia glossy black ; palpi with the hair 

 in front of 2nd joint ochreous ; thorax ochreous yellow, the pectus 

 in front, fore femora and tibia?, and the mid and hind tibhc at 

 extremities fuscous brown ; abdomen ochreous tinged with brown. 

 Fore wing with antemedial black-brown quadrate patch from costa 

 to just below cell, a strong obliquely excurved line from its outer 

 edge to inner margin ; a broad rather diffused and slightly excurved 

 medial band ; postmedial line strong, excurved, slightly defined by 

 ochreous on outer side ; terminal area brown. Hind wing glossy 

 brown, the base pale ochreous ; faint diffused medial and post- 

 medial brown lines ; cilia whitish at tips ; the underside whitish 

 suffused with brown, except basal and inner areas. 



Hob. U.S.A., Central and Southern States, 1 S , Texas. Exp. 

 26 millim. 



Larva. Food-plant, Sarraceuia JIava. 



5990. Exyra semicrocea. 



Xanthoptera semicrocea, Guen. Noct. ii. p. 241(1852); Smith, Cat. Noct. 



N. Am. p. 306. 

 Exyra hubbardiana, Dyar, Proc. Ent. Soc. Wash. vi. p. 59 (1904). 



3 . Head, tegulas, and prothorax glossy black, the palpi with the 

 hair in front of 2nd joint brownish ; thorax orange-yellow, the 

 pectus in front, fore femora, and tibiae on inner side brownish, 



