152 NOCTUIDJ;. 



B. Fore wing witli the ground-colour red-brown. 



a. Fore wing wifli tlie anteiuedial line not white. 



a'. Fore wing with the autemedial line indistinct, dark, 

 waved. 

 a-. Fore wing witli the postmedial line dentate and 



strongly excurved bej'ond the cell crasa. 



b^. Fore wing with the postmedial line slightly waved 

 and approximated to the cell. 



a^. Fore wing with the cilia not white at tips contempta. 



b^. Fore wing with the cilia white at tips dcleta. 



i\ Fore wing with the antemedial line indistinct, oblique, 



St rai gilt ohsoleiu. 



b. Fore wing with the antemedial line white. 



a}. Fore wing with the postmedial line white and straight 



throughout quadrifilaris. 



b^. Fore wing with the postmedial line white and oblique 

 to vein 6, then indistinct, dark, and incurved below 

 vein 3 anilis. 



*7935. Argyrostrotis surrnfula. (Plate CCXXXII. fig. 31). 

 CcUptera surrufula, Dyar, Proc. U. S. Nat. Mus. xliv. p. 299 (1913). 



c? . Head, thorax, and abdomen pale violaceous grey. Fore wing 

 pale violaceous grey ; antemedial line rather diffused, blackish, 

 angled outwards below costa and at median nervure ; reniform a small 

 blackish lunula ; postmedial line blackish, excurved below costa, 

 then waved and defined on outer side by white points, incurved 

 below vein 4, patches of fuscous suffusion beyond it at discal and 

 submedian interspaces ; a subterminal series of black points and a 

 terminal series of black striae. Hind wing grey tinged with red- 

 brown ; a terminal series of black stri;e. 



J£ab. Mexico, San Luis Potosi, Cerritos {AEidJer). Exp. 34 

 millim. This species is imknown to me, figured from a di-awing 

 from type in U.S. Nat. Mus. 



*7936. Argyrostrotis Mcetum. (Plate CCXXIV. fig. 31.) 



Cclipicra hucetmn, Grote, Trans. Kansas Ac. Sci. viii. p. 50 (1883); 

 Smith, Cat. Noct. N. Am. p. 356. 



$ . Head and thorax purple-grey tinged with brown ; palpi dark 

 brown ; ]X'ctus grey tinged with brown ; legs brown mixed with 

 grey ; abdomen red-brown tinged with grey. Fore wing purj)le- 

 grey tinged with brown and iiTorated with dark brown ; antemedial 

 line indistinct, brown, faintly defined on inner side by whitish scales, 

 obliipie, sinuous; a slight dark diseoidal lunule ; postmedial line 

 reddish oehreous defined on eacli side by dark brown, ereet and 

 nearly straight ; subterminal line indistinct, brown, defined on inner 

 side by grey, minutely waved ; a tenninal series of slight dark stri:e ; 

 cilia with a faint brown line near base. Hind wing reddish brown 

 tinged with grey; a fine dark terminal line ; cilia paler; the under- 

 side pale red-brown irrorated with dark broA\ni. 



ILth. U.S.A., New Mexico, Arizona (Polinf/) in Coll. W. Barnes. 

 Jf^.ip. 40 millim. 



