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Toxocampa Victoria Grote. 



$ $ . — Fore wingg pale lilac gray, subirrorate, the lines except the subter- 

 miual very indistinct. Orbicular a minute pure white dot. Reniform upright, 

 moderate, brown black or sometimes ocherous, resolved externally into detached 

 dots. Subterminal space darker shaded than the rest of the wing widening to 

 costa. Subterminal line vague, white or pale, waved. A series of interspaceal 

 black terminal dots ; fringes pale with an interior shade line. Hind wings pale 

 dusty fuscous with terminal shading ; beneath with very faint transverse shades ; 

 on the primaries a discal shading. Collar and vertex deep blackish brown, 

 velvety, discolorous with the gray thorax. A white line projecting in front 

 runs between the white anteunal sockets and separates the paler brown clypeal 

 vestiture from the dark vertex ; palpi grayish brown. 



Expanse, 48 m. m. Habitat, Victoria (G. R. Crotch, in Mus. 

 Comp. Zoology). 



Eesembles the European T. astragali H.-S., fig. 269, but differs 

 by tlie white orbicular and the evident subterminal line, as well as 

 the shape of the reniform. The genus is not previously registered 

 as American. It may be cited after Catocala, on page 43 of my List 

 of the Noctuidae of North America. 



Note. — Mr. Lintner kindly draws my attention to the fact that I 

 have omitted the following species regarded as common to Europe 

 and America from the " List." It should be cited under Eurois, on 

 page 13. The Polypliaenis herlacea of M. Guenee, unknown to me, 

 and cited under Eurois in the List, should be retained under its 

 original genus. E. lierlida has the middle and hind tibiae spinose. 

 I do not verify the differences mentioned by M. Guenee ; in the fe- 

 male the white cloud beyond the reniform seems more conspicuous 

 in American specimens. I think they are the same. 



*lierbida (TF. V.) ; Guen.. Noct. 3, p. 75. 



