AKGYEOSTEOXIS. 



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base, white at tips ; the underside whitish suffused and irrorated. 

 with red-brown, traces of diffused postmedial and Subterminal 

 brown lines. 



Hah. U.S.A., Southern States, 2 6 . Exp. 36-40 millim. 



7942. Argyrostrotis contempta. (Plate CCXXVI. fig. 5.) 



Poaphila coniemfia, Giien. Noct. iii. p. 302 (1852); Smith, Cat. Noct. 



N. Am. p. 358. 

 Poaphila placata, Grote, Bull. Geol. Geog. Surv. Terr. iv. p. 184 (1878) ; 



Smith, Cat. Koct. N. Am. p. 359. 



Head, thorax, and abdomen bright red-brown ; antennae with the 

 shaft white above. Fore wing bright red-brown ; antemedial line 

 very indistinct, brown, excurved and slightly waved; traces of a 

 brown discoidal bar ; postmedial line indistinct, brown, oblique, 

 waved ; traces of an oblique sinuous subterminal line ; a slight dark 

 terminal line. Hind wing bright red-brown, with a slight dark 

 terminal line ; the underside somewhat greyer with slight discoidal 

 striga and traces of diffused postmedial and subterminal lines. 



Hah. U.S.A., Southern States, Georgia, 2 (J , 2 $ ij^Q placata, 

 Florida {Douhleclay), 1 5 . Exp. 26-30 millim. 



7943. Argyrostrotis deleta. 



PoapMla dclela, Guen. Noct. iii. p. 300 (1852); Smith, Cat. Noct. N. Am. 

 p. 358. 



c? . Head, thorax, and abdomen bright red-brown ; antenna; with 

 the shaft white above. Fore wing bright red-brown, the terminal 

 area with faint greyish irroration ; antemedial line indistinct, brown, 



Fig. 1(3. — Argyrostrotis deleta, J. \. 



faintly defined on each side by rufous, excurved and slightly waved ; 

 a slight dark discoidal lunule ; postmedial line jtist beyond the 



