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6013. Spragueia magnifica. (Plate CLXIX. fig. 3.) 



Spragueia magnijlca, Grote, Papilio, ii. p. 183 (1882); Smith, Cat. Noct. 

 N. Am. p. -304. 



5 . Head and thorax leaden black ; palpi yellowish, white ; lower 

 part of frons, a bar above it, and the back of head yellowish white ; 

 patagia with yellowish streaks ; pectus and legs yellowish white, 

 the tarsi banded with black ; abdomen brown with yellowish-white 

 segmental lines, the ventral surface yellowish white, black at 

 extremity. Pore wing leaden black, a yellowish-white fascia 

 above basal half of inner margin with some red scales on its lower 

 edge ; antemedial line yellowish white, very obliquely excurved from 

 base of costa towards which it expands to middle of inner margin, 

 where it joins the postmedial line ; orbicular and reniform leaden 

 black, round, the former confluent with a black bar from costa and 

 small mark below the cell, an oblique yellowish-white mark from 

 costa to the latter, above which it is bent outwards ; postmedial 

 line yellowish white defined on inner side by orange-red from below 

 costa on which there is a black streak to vein 1, the line expanding 

 at costa, excurved to vein 4, then incurved and joining the ante- 

 medial line at vein 1 ; a yellow band just before termen with 

 orange-red before it below costa and above inner margin ; cilia 

 leaden black. Hind wing whitish suffused with brown, especially 

 towards termen ; cilia whitish with a brown line near base, tinged 

 with yellow at apex ; the underside with the veins streaked with 

 brown, a brown patch at middle of costa, the termen tinged with 

 brown. 



Hah. U.S.A., New Mexico, Roswell (Coc/i^ereZZ), 1 5, Arizona. 

 Exp. 18 millim. 



6014. Spragueia onagrus. (Plate CLXIX. fig. 4.) 



Agrophila onagrus, Guen. Noct. ii. p. 20.'), pi. x. f. 2(1852) ; Smith, Cat. 

 Noct. N. Am. p. 304. 



Head, tegulse, and patagia bright rufous ; palpi with black marks 

 on 2nd and 3rd joints ; frons with black patch ; antennae and patches 

 at their bases black ; thorax black m ith some rufous on dorsum ; 

 pectus and legs whitish mixed with brown, the tarsi brown ringed 

 with white ; abdomen black with pale rufous segmental lines and 

 anal tuft, the ventral surface white. Fore wing orange-red ; a 

 large elliptical black patch on basal half traversed by a whitish 

 fascia on vein 1 and with curved whitish fascia above it ; orbicular 

 and reniform black, round, the former with obliquely curved black 

 fascia from costa to its inner edge and wedge-shaped mark to its 

 outer edge, some whitish between them and above the reniform, 

 which also has a small black mark above it on the costa ; a black 

 streak on middle of inner margin ; postmedial line represented by a 

 whitish mark on costa and a line from vein 6 to inner margin 



