56 NOCTTJIDJB. 



J^. Fore wiDg without black streak on median nervure 



or grey-white patch below end of cell rvficeps. 



h^. Fore wing with yellow fascia in and beyond end of 

 cell. 

 «*. Fore wing with three black points in upper part 



of cell chrysota. 



h'^. Fore wing without black jDointsin cell pallidistria. 



h. Fore wing without i-ed or brown suffusion below base 

 of cell. 

 a\ Fore wing with black streak in base of submedian 

 fold. 

 a^. Fore wing with prominent pale yellow fasciae in 



discal and submedian folds hiornaia. 



h-. Fore wing with hardly any yellow in discal and 

 submedian folds. 

 «^. Fore wing strongly suffused and irrorated with 

 brown ; hind wing with the terminal area 



strongly suffused with brown ■ balsamiice. 



b^. Fore wing and terminal area of hind wing 



slightly tinged with pale brown mhulosa. 



<6^ Fore wing without black streak in base ofj sub- 

 median fold lactea. 



2YJ^. Empusada argyrina. (Plate XCVIII. fig. 12.) 



Cucullia argyrina, Guen. Noct. ii. p. 150, pi. 9. f. 3 (1852). 

 Argyritis pura, Butl. Trans. Ent. Soc. JSSiJ, p. 86. 



S (pura). Head and thorax white pencilled with pale brown ; 

 abdomen white. Pore wing bright red-brown, the inner area paler ; 

 a silvery-white fascia in and above cell to just below costa, curved 

 upwards beyond the cell to a point at apex ; a white streak on vein 1 

 from before middle to beyond middle; a white line just before termen 

 between veins 7 and 2 ; cilia white with three brown lines through 

 them. Hind wing white, the terminal area reddish brown, rather 

 broadly at costa and narrowing to a point at submedian fold; the 

 underside wholly white. 



2 . Head, thorax, and abdomen browner ; hind wing wholly- 

 tinged with brown. 



The typical form from Argentina and Uruguay has the inner 

 area of fore wing almost wholly white and the hind wing of female 

 as in the male. 



Hab. Abgentina (Tliomas), 1 d' , 1 $ ; Uruguay ; Chili, Coquimbo 

 (J. J. Walker, Edmonds), 3 c? i 1 $ type ^Jtfra. E.rp., ,S 32, $ 

 36 millim. 



2175. Empusada argentina. 



Noctua argentina, Fabr. Mant. Ins. ii. p. 162 (1787) ; Hiibn. Eur. Schmett., 

 Noct. f. 553; Dup. Lep. Fr. vii. p. 442, pi. 127. f. 5; Staud. Cat, Lep. 

 pal. p. 217. 



Cucullia achalina, Piing. Iris, xiii. p. 120 (1900). 



Head and thorax ochreous white, the head tinged with brown, 

 the tegulae with two dark lines, a few black-tipped scales on upper 

 edge of patagia ; abdomen ochreous white, the extremity of ventral 

 surface often with some rufous. Fore wing pale yellow, the cell 

 and area above its base and below it from just below costa to sub- 



