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reddish brown, the basal and inner areas paler in male ; cilia brown, 

 with fine pale line at base and white tips ; the underside pale with 

 snaall discoidal spot and indistinct sinuous postmedial line. 



Hah. Germany, E. Saxony ; Atisteia, Frey Coll., Carniola, 

 Zeller Coll. ; Httngaky, Leech Coll, ; Switzerland, Leech Coll. ; 

 Galicia; Rumelia; Russia; Asia Minor, Pontus. Exp. 38-46 

 millim. 



Larva. Kirby, Butt. & Moths Eur. p. 254. 



Green with yellowish dorsal and subdorsal lines and white 

 lateral line. Food-plant, seeds of Scroplialaria vernalis. 6. 



*2169. Cucullia oribac. 



Cucullia oribac, Barnes, Can. Ent. xxxvi. p. 237 (1904). 



c?. Differs from C. agua in the fore wing being without the 

 ■dark patch and white subcostal spot at base ; orbicular and reniform 

 absent ; cilia with white points at base at extremities of veins ; the 

 medial area with three oblique dark strife from costa, with the area 

 below them tinged with pale brown to median nervure, the 8rd 

 striga continued to termen below apex, the area above it grej-er 

 with slight dark streaks ; the brown-shaded costal area towards 

 apex longer and narrower than in C. agua ; the inner area greyer 

 with the veins darker ; the black fascia on inner margin slighter ; 

 the pale dark-defined portion of postmedial line on inner area 

 rather S-shaped and oblique. Hind wing with the dark-suffused 

 terminal area darker. 



Hah. U.S.A., Arizona, Huachuca Mts. Exp. 47 millim. 



This species is unknown to me, it may perhaps be the same as 

 •C. jperstrigata., Schaus. 



Genus ARGYEOGALEA, nov. 



Type, A. argent ea. 



Proboscis fully developed ; palpi short, obliquely upturned, fringed with 

 hair on both sides ; frons with slight rounded prominence ; eyes large, rounded ; 

 ■antennte almost simple in both sexes ; head and thorax clothed with hair only, 

 the tegulas produced behind into a hood, the metathorax with double crest ; 

 tibiae fringed with long hair on outer side ; abdomen with dorsal crests on basal 

 segments. Fore wing rather long and narrow, the apex produced and the 

 termen obUque ; veins 3 and 5 from near angle of cell ; 6 from upper angle, 

 9 from 10 anastomosing with 8 to form the areole ; 11 from cell. Hind wing 

 "with veins 3, 4 from angle of cell ; 5 obsolescent from just below angle of 

 discocellulars ; 6, 7 from upper angle ; 8 anastomosing with the cell near 

 base only. 



2170. Argyrogalea argentea. 



Noctua argentea, Hiifn. Berl. Mag. iii. p. 286 (1767) ; Esp. Schmett. iv. 



pi. 109. ff. 6-9 ; Knoch, Beitr. i. p. 45, pi. 3. ff. 1, 2 ; Cram. Pap. Exot. 



iv. p. 242, pi. 400. f. G- ; Staud. Cat. Lep. pal. p. 217. 

 Noctuct arfemisicB, Schiff. Wien. Verz. p. 312 (1776), nee Hiifn. : Cram. 



Pap. Exot. iv. p. 223, pi. 393. f. G ; Hiibn. Eur. Schmett., Noct. f. 259 ; 

 VOL. VI. G 



