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out, followed by a whitish shade on costa. The costal edge at apices is 

 whitish. Secondaries concolorous, blackish, paler beneath ; the fringe is 

 paler outwardly. The male expands 20 mil., the female 22 mil. The 

 wings are wide, convex along costal margin of primaries, the apices a 

 little pointed. Body frail, concolorous, blackish, the palpi, feet and abdo- 

 men beneath paler. Collected in Mass. by L. W. Goodell, Esq., for 

 whom the species is named. 



Hadena adnixa, n, s. 



<£ °. . Eyes naked ; tibiae unarmed. By the excavate secondaries 

 allied to curvata, genitrix and fumosa. Paler than cun>ala, of a dusty 

 gray, shaded with brown. Sub-basal field shaded with brown with a black 

 streak from the base below median vein to anterior line. Half-line 

 present ; base of the ground color. T. a. line geminate, not very distinct, 

 blackish, marked on costa, scalloped, perpendicular. Claviform outlined. 

 Orbicular subquadrate, with a brown central clouding. Reniform nar- 

 rowed above, constricted, black-ringed, upright, with a brown internal 

 shade, crossed by the angulate brown median shade. Posterior line as in 

 allied forms ; between the reniform and the line a pale shade, repeated 

 between the discal spots and before the orbicular, here smaller and less 

 noticeable. Subterminal space shaded with brown ; veins darker ; black 

 dashes on the interspaces between veins 4 and 6. Terminal space of the 

 ground color. Subterminal line pale, flexed ; a terminal series of black 

 marks ; the dusky fringes uneven, with a pale line at base, interrupted 

 with pale. Hind wings fuscous with pale extra mesial line. Beneath 

 gray, irrorate with distinct dark dentate lines and discal spots. Collar 

 black-lined. Expanse 38 mil. Nevada ; Mr. Tepper. 



Hadena characta, n. s. 



Allied to cwvata and adnixa, but smaller and with the aspect of an 

 Agrotis. Body tufted ; eyes naked ; tibise unarmed. Fore wings blackish 

 gray with the sub-basal and subterminal spaces shaded with pale, and with 

 a slight ochre stain which spreads on the dusky median space. Claviform 

 large, concolorous, black-outlined. Orbicular well sized, rather narrow, 

 oblique, gray, with central streak. Reniform moderate, shaded with gray, 

 upright, constricted. Lines geminate, accompanied by gray shades, not 

 very distinct. Posterior line followed by slight dark venular marks. Sub- 

 terminal pale, irregular. Hind wings fuscous, the veins darker ; beneath 



