152 NOCTUIDJ.. 



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



a. Fore wing with tlie antemedial line not white. 



a^. Fore wing with the antemedial line indistinct, dark, 

 waved. 

 «^. Fore wing with the postniedial line dentate and 



stronglj excurved beyond the cell erasa. 



Ifi. Fore wing with the postmedial line slightly waved 

 and approximated to the cell. 



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



h^. Fore wing with the cilia white at tips deletu. 



b^. Fore wing with the antemedial line indistinct, oblique, 



straight obsolete. 



b. Fore wing with the antemedial line white. 



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



th ronghout 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 surrufula. (Plate CCXXXII. fig. 31). 



Cellptera surnifula, Dyar, Proc. U. S. Nat. Mus. xliv. p. 289 (1913). 



S . 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 stibterminal series of black points and a 

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

 brown ; a terminal series of black strise. 



Hah. Mexico, San Luis Potosi, Cerritos (lli'dler). Exp. 34 

 millim. This species is unknown to me, figured from a drawing 

 from type in U.S. Nat. Mus. 



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



Celiptera bucetum, 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 ; pectus grey tinged with brown ; legs brown mixed with 

 grey ; abdomen red-brown tinged with grey. Fore wing purple- 

 grey tinged with brown and irrorated with dark brown ; antemedial 

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

 oblique, sinuous ; a slight dark discoidal lunule ; postmedial line 

 reddish ochreous defined on each side by dark brown, erect and 

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

 side by grey, minutely waved ; a terminal series of slight dark striae ; 

 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 u-rorated with dark brown. 



Hah. U.S.A., New Mexico, Arizona {Poling) in Coll. W. Barnes. 

 Exp. 40 millim. 



