EUSTROTIA. 607 



approxim;ited to the postmedial line below the cell and with 

 yellowish spot on it at median nervure and less distinct spot at 

 vein 1 ; postmedial line double, the inner line blackish, the outer 

 indistinct, bent outwards below costa, then oblique, some pale 

 points beyond it on costa; subterminal line very indistinct, pale, 

 slightly defined on inner side by brown, excurved below vein 7 

 and at middle ; the terminal area somewhat browner with a series 

 of faint fuscous points before termen. Hind wing brown with a 

 greyish tinge; the underside whitish tinged and irrorated with 

 brown, faint curved postmedial and subterminal lines. 

 Hab. U.S.A., 1 S , Florida, Texas. Exp. 16 millim. 



5913. Eustrotia secta. (Plate CLXYII. fig. 4.) 



EuRtrntia secta, Grote, Can. Ent. xi. p. 199 (1879); Smith, Cat. Noct 

 N. Am. p. 310. 



Head and thorax reddish brown mixed with purplish grey; 

 tarsi ringed with whitish ; abdomen whitish tinged with brown. 

 Fore wing violaceous white suffused and irrorated with purplish 

 brown ; a slight subbasal dark mark on costa ; antemedial line 

 slight, dark, oblique from costa to submedian fold, then incurved 

 and with some whitish suffusion before it below the cell; two 

 black discoidal points defined by grey ; postmedial line dark slightly 

 defined on outer side by whitish, bent outwards from below costa 

 to vein 6, then minutely waved, incurved below vein 4 and with 

 more or less distinct blackish patch before it, some white points 

 beyond it on costa ; subterminal line whitish defined on inner side 

 by brown forming a patch at costa, angled outwards at vein 7, 

 excurved at middle and bent outwards to tornus ; a punctiform 

 brown terminal line with some whitish before it; cilia red-brown. 

 Hind wing greyish uniformly suffused with brown ; cilia brownish 

 at base and with whitish tips ; the underside whitish irrorated 

 with brown, a black discoidal striga, diffused curved postmedial 

 line, diffused subterminal line, and terminal series of black strife. 



In two specimens the fore wing has the areole absent, in one 

 vein 10 arises free, then strongly anastomoses with 11, in the other 

 it is strongly stalked with 11. 



Hab. U.S.A., Massachusetts [Thaxter), 3 J fype, New York 

 (Speyer), 1 § . Exp. 18 millim. 



5914. Eustrotia bryophilina, n. sp. (Plate CLXVII. fig. 5.) 



c? . Head and thorax grey tinged with rufous and pencilled with 

 fuscous ; fore tibiae and tarsi banded with fuscous ; abdomen 

 ochreous white dorsiilly irrorated with brown. Fore wing greyish 

 tinged in parts with rufous and thickly pencilled Avith fuscous ; 

 subbasal line rather diffused, blackish, from costa to submedian 

 fold ; antemedial line double, rather diffused, blackish, waved, the 



