208 NOCTUIDiE. 



a curved white mark defined bj' black on outer side and below from 

 cell to the black basal streak just before antemedial line and with 

 some black suffusion beyond it ; orbicular and reniforra white with 

 iQore or less brown in centres and incompletely defined by black, 

 the former round, open above and below and confluent with the 

 claviform, the latter large ; postmedial line double, strongly bent 

 outwards below costa, incurved at discal fold, below vein 4 incurved 

 to near claviform and slightly angled outwards on vein 1, some 

 white points beyond it on costa ; subterminal line white, ill-defined, 

 irregularly dentate, crossed bj' a black streak from termen below 

 vein 2, sometimes with short streaks above and below it ; a terminal 

 series of slight black lunules ; cilia chequered fuscous and whitish. 

 Hind wing whitish suffused with fuscous brown, rather more 

 deeply on terminal area ; a black terminal line ; cilia white with 

 brownish line at base ; the underside white irrorated with brown, 

 a discoidal spot and sinuous postmedial line showing through to 

 upperside. 



Ab. 1. viridescens. Head, thorax, and fore wing much darker 

 and more evenly sufl'used with purplish fuscous and olive-green. 



Bab. U.S.A., Massachusetts, New York, 1 c? , 1 $ type muralis, 

 Georgia, 2 S type, Missouri, Texas, 1 ^ , Florida {Doubleday), 

 1 c? type viridescens. Exp. 38-44 millim. 



2348. Psaphida grotei. (Plate CI. fig. 18.) 



Valeria grotei, Morr. Bull. Buff. Soc. Nat. Sci. i. p. 274 (1874) ; Smith, 

 Cat. Noct. N. Am. p. 111. 



cj . Head and thorax olive red-brown mixed with dark brown ; 

 basal joint of antennae white ; tegulse with dark brown medial 

 line ; dorsum of thorax with some white scales ; pectus and legs 

 brown mixed with whitish, the tarsi with white rings : abdomen 

 whitish thickly irrorated with dark brown, the dorsal crests dark 

 brown. Fore wing dark purplish brown mixed with olive-green 

 and slightly irrorated with white ; the veins streaked with blackish ; 

 subbasal line represented by some black scales below costa and in 

 cell ; a black streak below base of cell curved round at extremity 

 and running back above inner margin to near base ; antemedial 

 line indistinctly double, oblique, irregularly waved ; claviform 

 represented by a curved black mark from cell to antemedial line ; 

 orbicular round with brown centre and white annulus defined by 

 black ; reniform large, white, its centre defined by fuscous ; post- 

 medial line indistinctly double, strongjy bent outwards below costa, 

 incurved at discal fold, strongly incurved below vein 4 to below 

 cell and excurved at vein 1, some white suft'usion on inner area 

 before and beyond it ; subterminal line whitish, angled outwards 

 at vein 7, dentate at veins 4, 3, strongly incurved in submedian 

 interspace and bent outwards to tornus, a black patch beyond it on 

 vein 2, a terminal series of small black lunules defined by greyish, 

 llind wing white, the veins dark on terminal half; a sinuous 



