672 noituidjs. 



strongly incurved below the cell, a black spot beyond it on costa 

 and a broad black band from vein 6 to inner margin, its outer edge 

 strongly indented at submedian fold; cilia blackish, orange-red at 

 tornus. Hind wing fuscous brown with a fine white line at base 

 of cilia. 



Hah. U.S.A., Florida, 1 6 , 1 $ , Enterprize, 2 <J , Tallahassa, 

 1 6 , 1 $ , Texas. Exp. 20 millim. 



6015. Spragueia leo. (Plate CLXIX. fig. 5.) 



Agrophila leo, Guen. Noct. ii. p. 205 (1852) ; Smith, Cat. Noct. N. Am. 



' p. 304. 

 Agrophila onagrus, Herr.-Schaff. Aussereur. Schmett. f. 209, nee Guen. 



$ . Head and thorax black, the vertex of head, tegulae, patagia, 

 and a patch on metathorax rufous ; palpi with the 1st joint and a 

 baud on 2nd whitish ; lower part of frons whitish ; pectus and 

 legs whitish, the tibiae and tarsi banded with black ; abdomen black 

 with whitish segmental lines, the anal tuft pale rufous, the ventral 

 surface whitish. Fore wing orange-red, the costal area whitish 

 from near base to near apex ; a black fascia in base of cell extending 

 to costa at base and another fascia on base of vein 1 ; antemedial 

 line black at costa, then orange-red, curved ; orbicular and reniform 

 black, the former conjoined to an elongate mark below the cell ; a 

 small black spot on middle of costa and quadrate patch on inner 

 margin ; the reniform with a small black spot above it on costa and 

 conjoined to a triangular patch beyond the cell with an oblique bar 

 from it to inner margin representing the band beyond the postmedial 

 line ; a small black spot on costa towards apex ; cilia black, orange- 

 red at tornus. Hind wing fuscous brown with a fine whitish line 

 at base of cilia ; the underside whitish, the costal and terminal areas 

 fuscous, a fuscous discoid al spot. 



2 . Vertex of head usually black. Fore wing with the black 

 fascia in base of cell conjoined to the orbicular patch, which is 

 confluent with the reniform ; hind wing wholly fuscous on under- 

 side. 



Hub. U.S.A., Florida, Texas, 5^,4 $ . Exp. 20 millim. 



6016. Spragueia dama. 



Agrophila dama, Guen. Noct. ii. p. 205 (1952) ; Smith, Cat. Noct. N. Am. 



p. 305. 

 Agrophila transmutata,W\k. xxxiii. 776 (1865), $ ; Druce, Biol. Centr.-Am., 



Het. i. p. 301 ; Smith, Cat. Noct. N. Am. p. 305. 

 Agrophila trifariana, Wlk. xxxiii. 777 (1865), J; Druce, Biol. Centr.- Am., 



'Het. i. p. 302. 

 Spragueia partialis, Grote, Papilio, i. p. 50 (1881). 



c? . Head and thorax blackish with rufous patches on vertex of 

 head, tegulae, and patagia ; palpi and lower part of frons whitish 

 tinged with rufous :- pectus and legs whitish, the tibiae and tarsi 



