652 NOCTTJID^. 



median fold to inner margin ; traces of a postmedial line excurved 

 to vein 4, then oblique ; traces of a diffused subtermiual line ; a fine 

 whitish line at base of cilia. Hind wing dark brown, the cilia greyer 

 and faintly tinged with purple. 



§ . Fore wing with the terminal half of costa, the terminal area, 

 and cilia greyish brown. 



Hal. U.S.A., Eastern, Middle, and Central States, Massachusetts, 

 Newton {Thaxter), 2 J , 1 $ type. Exp. S 26, $ 22 millim. 



*5988. Exyra fax. 



Xmithoptera fax, Grote, Trans. Am. Ent. Soc. iv. p. 295 (1873) ; Smith, 

 Cat. Noct. N. Am. p. 306. 



Head and thorax orange-yellow ; abdomen brownish black. Fore 

 wing brownish black slightly irrorated with orange-red scales 

 forming two faint patches in cell ; cilia tipped with orange-red. 

 Hind wing brownish black. 



Hah. U.S.A., Delaware, Georgia. Exp. 12 millim. This species 

 is unknown to me. 



5989. Exyra ridingsi. (Plate CLXVIII. fig. 19.) 



Xanthoptera ridingsii,'R\\ey, Trans. St. Louis Acad. Sci. iii. p. 240, f. 12 



(1874) ; Smith, Cat. Noct. N. Am. p. 306> 

 Xanthoptera nigrocaput, Morr. Proc. Bost. Soc. N. H. xvii. p. 153 (1874). 



S . Head, tegulae, and patagia glossy black ; palpi with the hair 

 in front of 2nd joint ochreous ; thorax oehreous yellow, the pectus 

 in front, fore femora and tibiae, and the mid and hind tibiae at 

 extremities fuscous brown ; abdomen ochreous tinged with brown. 

 Fore wing with antemedial black-brown quadrate patch from costa 

 to just below cell, a strong obliquely excurved line from its outer 

 edge to inner margin ; a broad rather diffused and slightly excurved 

 medial band ; postmedial line strong, excurved, slightly defined by 

 ochreous on outer side ; terminal area brown. Hind wing glossy 

 brown, the base pale ochreous ; faint diffused medial and post- 

 medial brown lines ; cilia whitish at tips ; the underside whitish 

 suffused with brown, except basal and inner areas. 



Hah. U.S.A., Central and Southern States,! cJ , Texas. Exp. 

 26 millim. 



Larva. Food-plant, Sarracenia Jlava. 



5990. Exyra semicrocea. 



Xanthoptera semicrocea, Guen. Noct. ii. p. 241(1852); Smith, Cat. Noct. 



N. Am. p. 306. 

 Exyra hubbardiana, Dyar, Proc. Ent. Soc. Wash. ^i. p. 59 (1904). 



cJ . Head, tegulae, and prothorax glossy black, the palpi with the 

 hair in front of 2nd joint brownish ; thorax orange-yellow, the 

 pectus in front, fore femora, and tibiae on inner side brownish, 



