154 NOCTTTID.E, 



iiToratecI with brown, the rest of whig grey siiffused with brown ; 

 antemeclial line indistinct, brown, excurved in submedian inter- 

 space ; reniform small, defined by dark brown ; postmedial line dark 

 brown, excurved below costa, then obliquely incurved; a slight 

 oblique dark shade from apex ; a crenulate blackish terminal line 

 angled inwards to black points in the interspaces. Hind wing grey 

 suffused with cupreous brown ; a waved dark terminal line ; the 

 underside whitish irrorated with brown, the costal area tinged with 

 red-brown, a blackish discoidal point, minutely waved postmedial 

 brown line, and series of black points before termen. 



Hah. U.S.A., Southern States, 1 c? , Grote Coll. Exp. 36 

 millim. 



7940. Argyrostrotis sylvarum. (Plate CCXXVI. fig. 3.) 



Poaphila sylvarum, Guen. Noct. iii. p. 300, pi. xxiii. f. 2 (1852); Smitb, 

 Cat. Noct. N. Am. p. 358. 



S . Head and thorax red-brown tinged with grey ; palpi, pectus, 

 and legs red-brown ; abdomen red-brown, the ventral surface 

 Avhitish irrorated with brown. Fore wing purple-grey tinged with 

 red-brown and slightly irrorated with brown ; antemedial line 

 whitish, defined on outer side by diffused red-brown, oblique ; a 

 dark discoidal lunule with some brown on its outer side ; post- 

 medial line red-brown, with a broad band of red-brown suffusion 

 beyond it, excurved below costa, then oblique ; subterminal line 

 dark, closely approximated to the postmedial line and showing 

 faintly on the red-brown suffusion, incurved at discal fold and 

 angled outwards at veins 4, 3 ; a series of black points just before 

 termen. Hind wing red-brown ; a faint medial line incurved below 

 vein 4, dark postmedial shade, a terminal series of black points ; 

 cilia whitish at tips ; the underside paler red-brown with some dark 

 irroration, the markings more distinct, a small blackish discoidal 

 lunule. 



Hah. U.S.A., Southern States, 3 S ■ Exp. 36 millim. 



7941. Argyrostrotis erasa. (Plate CCXXVI. fig. 4.) 



FoapMla erasa, Guen. Noct. iii. p. 301 (1852) ; Sinith, Cat. Noct. N. Ain. 

 p. 359. 



cJ . Head and thorax red-brown tinged with grey ; palpi and legs 

 brown ; abdomen grey suffused Avith red- brown. Fore wing red- 

 brown mixed with greyish, the terminal area cupreous red-brown ; 

 antemedial line indistinct, brown, waved ; a slight brown discoidal 

 kinule ; postmedial line indistinct, brown, dentate, strongly incurved 

 below vein 4 ; subterminal line faintly indicated by the contrast 

 between the postmedial and terminal areas ; cilia dark ]'ed- brown at 

 base, pure white at tips except at apex and tornus. Hind wing 

 red-brown, the terminal area cupreous brown ; cilia red-brown at 



