﻿LEPIDOPXERA HETEROCERA. 1421 



Ophiiisa consobrina, Guen, Noct. iii. 268, 1700. 

 North America. 



6. OpHIUSA ? ATOMARTS. 



Mas. Fusca ; alee antica macula postmedia discali fasciaqiie 

 suhapicali obscurioribus testaceo marginatum lineaque trans- 

 versa arcuata subbasali obscuriore ; posticce margine interlineata 

 pallidiore. 



Phoberia atomaris (Noctua seinigeoraetra, Ascalaplia frequens), 

 H'ubn, Zutr. Exot, Schmett, i. 16, 38, f. 75,76 ; Verz.Schmett. 

 288, 2623. 



Georgia. Florida. 



West Indies. 

 7. Ophiusa Salmus. 



Violaceo-cinerea ; alee anticfs latce, subdentatce, nigra conspersce, 

 margine exteriore rotundato, venis pallidioribus, lineis tribus 

 albidis, la basali abbreviata, 2a angulata^ 3a arcuata, macula 

 reniformi magna ovata et orbiculari punctiformi pallida mar- 

 ginatis^ striga costali albida, maculis tribus apicalibus nigris ; 

 posticce fuliginoso cinerece, lineolis duabus pallidioribus, 



Ophiusa Salmus, Guen, Noct, iii. 267, 1698. 



Haiti. 



8. Ophiusa variolosa. 



Mas. Ferruginea ; alee subtus nigricante-cinerece margine pal- 

 lidiore ; anticcB acutcBy purpurascentes et rufescentes, testaceo 

 varice, nigro conspersce, lineis duabus basalibus pallidis, spatia 

 exteriore cinerascente, linea 3a nigra denticulata, lineis me- 

 dianis fuscis undulatis indistinctis, linea exteriore pallida 

 recta obliqua intus nigro marginata et punctata costam versus 

 retracta et undulata, spatia marginali cinerascente-cervina^ 

 linea submarginali pallida indistincta denticulata, guttis sub- 

 marginalibus et marginalibus nigris^ maculis duabus posiicis 

 interioribus nigris, orbiculari e gutta oblonga albida, reni- 

 formi ampla pallidissime testacea guttas duas nigras inclu- 

 dente ; posticce fusccp, linea exteriore angulum versus inte- 

 riorem conspicua, margine exteriore postico pallide cinereo. 



Male, Ferruginous. Wings beneath blackish cinereous, paler 

 along the exterior border. Fore wings acute, speckled with black, 



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