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Hadejia quaesUa. 



Prof. Lintner's remarks in letters on the variability of lignicolor and 

 his doubt, after seeing my type, of the validity of quaesita, induced me to 

 take a large number of specimens this season ; and though I have not 

 taken one exactly like qiiaeiifa, I have a series which approach it so closely 

 that I think it now only a pronounced example of that form of lignicolor 

 which has the ground color of primaries very pale. The reddish tint is 

 decidedly absent and the dark shades on terminal space and elsewhere 

 contrast more strongl)'. The slight differences in the lines and stigmata 

 are, I am satisfied, only varietal. The name quaesita applies then to the 

 dark brown and pale form^f lignicolor. 



Hadena delicata. 



I have taken a few fresh specimens of this species near Buffalo in June 

 and July. The deep green shading is very beautiful and distinct on the 

 thorax, base of the wing and to the subterminal line. I have since 

 referred H. interna to this species, the type exhibiting the principal features 

 of delicata, especially the inferior sinus of the subterminal line, but showing 

 no green shades whatever, though comparatively fresh. 



Mamestra vicina. 



I have taken several specimens of this species near Buffalo, in July. 

 I cannot separate satisfactorily from this species certain Texan specimens 

 which I suppose to be the teligera of Mr. Morrison. The ovipositor is 

 extended in one Texan $ , in another not visible. I do not see it 

 externally in vicitia. Its visibility does not seem to me a satisfactory 

 generic character, and in the series of grandis, subjuncta, atlantica, vicina, 

 I would include the Californian Mamestra pensilis, formerly referred by 

 me to Dianthoecia, but apparently representing vicina in the western 

 district. 



Pallachira, fi. g. _ 



^ . Antennae scaled on their upper surface with long setose pec- 

 tinations outwardly ; on the inside the processes are short, and from base 

 to basal third much reduced ; at this point the inner series is interrupted 

 by a stouter claw-like process. Ocelli present ; eyes naked ; squamation 

 scaly and thin. Legs slender, closely scaled, unarmed ; hind tibi?e with 

 two pair of spurs. Fore feet long and w-ith the terminal joints tufted. 

 Body slender ; wings ample ; abdomen exceeding secondaries. 



