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form of the discal mark, show the moth to be naturally grouped 

 with our species which Mr. Guenee calls " Apamea," but which I 

 have referred to Hadena. 



Hadena vultuosa, n. s. 



%. 9- Belongs to the section Xylophasia, and is very closely 

 allied to H. lignicolor. It is a little smaller than this species. 

 The red color is wanting. The teguhe are blackish-brown ; disk 

 ferruginous. The ground color of the wings is a pale obscure 

 ochreous. The costa is shaded with dark-brown, and this shade 

 obtains on terminal space and runs inwardly in two places, at in- 

 ternal margin and opposite the cell, as in lignicolor. The ground 

 color of the wins is free from dashes of darker shade over the 

 median and subterminal spaces. There is a brown shade on the 

 internal margin at base. The transverse lines are indicated 

 by costal streaks. The stigmata are much as in lignicolor, but 

 narrower. The t. p. line is usually seen as a single faint line, 

 scalloped and succeeded by a double series of dots on the points, 

 the inner series black and evident. Beneath there is an indistinct 

 common shade line. Specimens from Canada (Mr. Saunders) 

 and New York (Mr. Robinson) seem larger than the figm-es of the 

 European rurea which I have seen, and differ by the absence of 

 any whitish shade on internal margin, and b} T the discal dots be- 

 neath being solid. I have catalogued this species as rurea, from 

 a determination received from the late Mr. Walker. But there 

 is sufficient evidence now that the European species is different, 

 while a nearer comparison must be postponed until European 

 material can be obtained. 



Mamestra Dimmocki, n. s. 



?. Allied to siibjnncta, G. and R. ; of the same blackish-brown 

 color, differing by being darker and more reddish, by the absence 

 of the median dash and the want of the prominent W-mark to the 

 subterminal line. Collar with a black line. Fore wings with a 

 short distinct black basal dash. Median lines blackish, indistinct, 

 lunulate, approximate. Orbicular large, luniform, excavate on 

 the inner side ; reniform large, medially constricted, shaded with 

 blackish over median nervules ; claviform merely outlined. Me- 

 dian shade line ferruginous below the reniform. Subterminal line 

 nearly straight, a series of interspaceal cuneiform ferruginous 

 spots surmounted by pale atoms. Hind wings dark fuscous, witli 



