HTPERSTROTIA. 



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5838. Hyperstrotia setheria. 



Thalpochares atheria, Grote, N. Am. Ent. i. p. 47 (1879) ; Smith, Cat. 

 Noct. N. Am. p. 313. 



Head and thorax white mixed with brown, the head with blackish 

 bands on frons and between antennae, the tegulaB with brown 

 medial band, the patagia black at base ; tarsi blackish with slight 

 pale rings ; abdomen brown with whitish segmental lines, the 

 ventral surface white. Fore wing white tinged in parts with 

 rufous and irrorated with a few black scales, the inner area rufous 

 to postmedial line where it is met by an oblique band from costa 

 before apex, blackish to postmedial line then rufous ; a subbasal 

 black striga from costa and short streak in cell ; a triangular 

 black patch on costa before the antemedial line, which is black, 



Fig. 153. — Hyperstrotia atheria, cJ- -f- 



angled outwards in cell, then oblique, a triangular brown shade 

 beyond it from costa ; two black discoidal points ; postmedial line 

 black defined on outer side by white, bent outwards below costa 

 and inwards below vein 4 ; subterminal line indistinct, white, 

 excurved below vein 7 and at middle and ending at tornus ; a 

 terminal series of small black lunules. Hind wing whitish suffused 

 with pale red-brown ; the underside white irrorated with brown, 

 a blackish discoidal lunule, curved postmedial line, diffused sub- 

 terminal line, and terminal series of small lunules. 



Hab. U.S.A. ; Florida, Enterprize, 1 c? , 1 $ , Tampa, 1 $ type. 

 Exj). 26 millim. 



*5839. Hyperstrotia oletta. (Plate CLXV. fig. 22.) 



Erastria oletta, Schaus, Trans. Am. Ent. Soe. xxx. p. 161 (1904). 



5 . Head and thorax white suffused in parts with rufous ; pectus 

 and legs ochreous white; abdomen fuscous brown, pale at base, the 

 ventral surface ochreous white. Fore wing with the basal half 

 bright rufous, the terminal half greyish suffused and irrorated with 

 rufous ; antemedial line white, bent inwards to costa, slightly 

 angled inwards in cell and oblique below the cell, with a whitish 

 patch beyond it in cell ; an indistinct diffused oblique medial rufous 

 line with short black streak on it in submedian fold ; reuiform 

 oblique, with whitish centre defined by rufous and whitish annuhis 

 with pale patch above it on costa ; postmedial line blackish, bent 

 outwards below costa, bent inwards below vein 4, then oblique to 



