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oblique and with a little incurve to the inner margin within the outer 

 third. The inner line is crenulated, fine, with outward teeth on the veins 

 which reach the faint, smoky, even outer line. A partial series of white 

 venular points follow this line. S. t. line yellow, powdery, incomplete, 

 preceded by a distinct black shade on the costa and further marked by 

 blackish powderings on either or both sides, elsewhere in its course. A 

 few b'ack scales indicate a series of terminal lunules. The fringe is 

 smoky, narrowly cut beyond the veins with very pale yellowish. A 

 smoky median shade is marked on the costa, obliquely to the base of the 

 reniform : then it becomes lost in the ground color to re-appear on the 

 internal margin. The entire median space is smoky, with yellow powder- 

 ings beyond the reniform and claviform. Claviform concolorous, broad, 

 outlined in black, extending half way across the median space. Orbicular 

 large, round, of the gray ground color, outlined by black scales. Reni- 

 form large, gray, kidney-shaped, outlined in black ; the line becoming 

 very slender superiorly. Secondaries smoky, with the outer line and 

 discal spot of the under side showing through. Fringes smoky at base, 

 white at tips, the basal dark portion cut with white on the veins. Beneath, 

 primaries smoky, with a vague outer line beyond which the wing is more 

 powdery. Secondaries powdery, fusceous gray with a round dark discal 

 spot and a smoky outer line. 

 Expanse 1.40 inches = 35 mm. 



Hab. British Columbia. 



A single male has been in my collection for some years await- 

 ing a mate, and I have no memorandum of the original source 

 of the specimen. The antennae have the joints a little marked 

 and furnished with short soft hair, hardly to be called tufts. 



In its general appearance the species recalls cuneata, but is 

 larger, much brighter in color and quite different in ornamenta- 

 tion. The yellow, powdery, s. t. line through the blue gray 

 ground should identify the species. 



The sexual species are somewhat imperfect, but indicate a type 

 which does not agree well with any series. It certainly does not 

 resemble cuneata in the least. The harpes are expanded at tip, 

 the margin inwardly fringed with spines and the clasper consists 

 of a long claw from a broad, somewhat flattened base. 



Mamestra cervina n. sp. 



Ground color a fine mouse or fawn gray with a variable reddish suffu- 

 sion. Head without markings. Collar black or brown tipped above 

 a series of gray scales. Patagia; gray, edged with a dusky or blackish, 

 sub.margin. Primaries with all the usual markings present: as a whole 

 the costal region is a little darker and the median space is distinctly more 

 reddish brown. Basal lines geminate, obscure, extending to a very 

 narrow, short, black basal streak in the submedian interspace. T. a. 



