264 NOCTUID^, 



(Wagner), 1 5^ Buenos Ayres (Thomas, Willinson), 3 (^ , 2 $. 

 Kvja. 32-40 millira. 



Larva. Head black to brown, reticulate, a pale V-mark over 

 clypeus. Body cylindrical, smooth, the tubercles not projecting, 

 obscure brownish-shaded, the dorsum broadly paler, sometimes 

 whitish ; lateral area dark-shaded between the narrow obscure pale 

 subdorsal and broad whitish, reddish-filled substigmatal band, the 

 latter not very sharply defined from the subventral area : cervical 

 shield dark, cut by a whitish line. Food-plants: Various. — 

 H. G. D. 



3877. LapLygma flavimaculata. (Plate CXXVIII. fig-. 27.) 



Caradrina jiavimaculata, Harv. Can. Ent. viii. p. 54 (1876) ; Druce, Biol. 

 Centr.-Am., Het. i. p. 280 ; Smith, Cat. Noct. N. Am. p. 168, 



Head and tegulse ochreous white, the latter edged with black 

 scales ; palpi with black patch on 2nd joint ; frons with slight 

 lateral black bars ; antennae fuscous ; thorax brown mixed with black 

 and ochreous white ; pectus and legs whitish mixed with some 

 brown, the tarsi black ringed Avith Avhite ; abdomen grej^ the basal 

 crest black and white. Fore wing grey suff'used with brown and 

 irrorated with black, the postmedial area somewhat paler except 

 on costal area ; subbasal line represented by double black striae 

 from costa and cell ; antemedial line double, oblique, waved ; 

 orbicular ochreous white defined by black, its centre tinged with 

 rufous or fiery red, irregularly rounded ; reniform with reddish 

 brown centre with whitish lunule on it and ochreous anuulus 

 defined bj^ black; a diffused oblique waved medial line from lower 

 angle of cell to inner margin ; postmedial line double filled in with 

 whidsh, strongly bent outwards below costa, then minutely waved, 

 incurved at discal fold and below vein 4, some pale points beyond 

 it on costa : subterminal line indistinct, whitish, angled outwards 

 at vein 7 and excurved at middle ; a terminal series of rather 

 triangular black points : cilia whitish tinged with brown, a dark 

 line near base followed by a slight line at middle. Hind wing 

 semihyaline white, the veins brown, the costal and inner areas and 

 termen tinged with brown ; a fine brown terminal line ; the under- 

 side with the costal area irrorated with black, a terminal series of 

 black points from apex to vein 2. 



Hah. ir.S^.A., Oregon, Colorado, Durango (Oslar), 1 c?, 1 $, 

 California, 2 c? , 1 5 type, Sta. Barbara ( Van Zandt, (T Urban), 2 (^ , 

 1 5 , Arizona, Prescott (Kutize), 2 cj' , 2 § , Phoenix (Kunze), 1 cJ , 

 3 $ ; Mexico, Sonora (Morrison), 1 S , Godman-Salvin Coll. 

 Exp. 26-34 millim. Hardly separable from L. exigua. 



