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primaries, the bright brown edging to tlic tliornx, and in the details of the 

 ornamentation throughout. 



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Mamestra Beanii, ii. s. 



$ . AlHed to purpurissata in color, but not quite so large, about the 

 size of grandis. Body tufts improminent. Eyes hairy. Antennae with a 

 white dot at base, simple, ciliate ; in purpurissata they are serrate and 

 bristled. Purple gray brown, darker than purpurissata, median space 

 tinged with reddish. Ornamentation not distinct. Ordinary lines double, 

 lunulate or waved ; t. a. line with its outer line more distinct and 

 blackish. Claviform small, black-edged. Orbicular large, paler than the 

 wing. Reniform rather narrow, with an internal shaded ring, stained with 

 ochrey red. T. p. line not much indented below the median vein. Sub- 

 terminal line continuous, nearly even, with a notch on the interspace 

 between veins 3 and 4, indicating the usual W-mark. Apices with a 

 whitish shade. Fringes concolorous. Hind wings dark fuscous with 

 whitish fringe. Beneath paler, fuscous, with the costal and terminal spaces 

 powdered with gray, reddish or purplish. Double exterior common shade 

 lines and faint discal dots. Expanse 45 mil. 



I name this fine species for its discoverer, who has collected some rare 

 moths with the present species at Galena, Illinois. Mr. Bean has taken 

 there Calyinnia calami Harvey, previously only known from Texas ; also 

 Lithophane semiusta, Scopelosoma tristiginata, devia and Pettiti. 



Gortyna rigida Grote. 



^ % . I have alluded to this species in the Proceedings of the Ent. 

 Soc. of Phil., 4, 324, as being allied to cataphrada, and differing chiefly 

 in the straight transverse posterior line, much as purpurifascia differs from 

 rutila. It is paler yellow than cataphrada, with less purple and dark 

 shades. The stigmata are concolorous. The base of primaries is pale ; 

 there is a faint terminal purplish washing in the male. My female speci- 

 men does not show but very faint traces of it. The moth is a little slighter 

 than its ally, and can be quickly known by the rigid purple t. p. line not 

 bent opposite the disc as it is in cataphracta. ^ Penn. ; ^ Illinois 

 (Mr. Bean). 



The following species is the first Eastern representative of the genus 

 Ochria, which contains the European y?rt'7w^^ and the Californian sanzaUtcR. 



