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Mamestra Goodelli, //. s. 



^ . Resembles at first sight Hadena misclioides, but the eyes are 

 hairy, size smaller, and color more brownish. Fore wings shiny reddish 

 brown, with the terminal space and costal region shaded with greenish. 

 Collar greenish, edged with black. Thorax reddish with the tegulae 

 dark margined. Transverse lines geminate, rather indistinct, slightly 

 lunulate ; t. p. improminently exserted. Orbicular small ; reniform 

 moderate, ill-defined, outwardly shaded with whitish. Subterminal line 

 improminent ; no W-mark. Hind wings fuscous with pale fringes ; 

 beneath with terminal space of primaries pale. A double exterior 

 shading and discal point on secondaries ; primaries fuscous, with the 

 commencement of an angulated exterior line indicated on costal region 

 and obscure discal point. Above the pale pre-apical costal points are 

 noticeable. Expanse 30 m. m. Amherst, Mass. ; from Mr. L. W. 

 Goodell, after whom I name the species, and numbered 291. 



The greenish or olive tin tings of this species are difficult to localize 

 and are very slight. 



DiantJioccia /i/stra/is, n. s. 



$. Resembles Mamestra legit ima ; allied to Dianthoecia pensilis. 

 Lilac gray, the median space shaded with light reddish below median vein 

 and about reniform. Median shade blackish, diffuse. Lines improminent, 

 geminate, the pale included spaces noticeable ; t. a. lint outwardly 

 exserted, narrowing the median space. Claviform marked by a short 

 black oblique dash. Orbicular small, pale, distinct, rounded. Reniform 

 narrow, pale, with an interior annulus. S. t. line below vein 6 preceded 

 by a carneous shading, and followed by dark scales ; inflected below vein 

 2. Fringes dark, obscurely cut with pale. Hind wings dark fuscous with 

 paler fringes ; the median line from beneath reflected. Under surface 

 of hind wings paler than above, showing dot and line ; fore wings fuscous 

 with paler terminal space. Collar with a black line. Expanse 30 m. m. 

 Racine (O. Meske). 



Atiarta promuha. 



Mamestra promulsa Morr., Ann. N. Y. Lye, 1875, 97- 



$. . This is rather a large species for the genus, but its characters are 

 those of Hnarta^ and it is allied to Anarta nivearia Grote. A good 

 example is in the collection of the Buffalo Society of Natural Sciences, 



