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Two males and two females in fair condition. The species is unlike the 

 usual type of Hadaia, but is an ally of that series in which the secondaries 

 are slightly excavated below the apex. The range of variation is in the 

 greater or less powdering which may reach a point making it difficult to 

 distinguish the markings. 



Mamestra iuana^ n. sp. — Ground colour dull, smoky-brown, powdery. 

 Head and collar somewhat paler, crossed by darker transverse lines. Tips 

 of collar and thoracic tuftings paler. Primaries with all the maculation 

 complete, not contrasting. Basal line yellowish-brown, margined with 

 black, lunate, and interrupting a thick, diffuse basal black streak. T. a. 

 line geminate, outer portion black, inner brown, included space lighter 

 brown, outwardly oblique and outcurved between the veins. T. p. line 

 geminate on costa, outer portion lost over cell, inner black, oblique to the 

 cell, then forming a distinct obtuse angle evenly to the inner margin. 

 Beyond the t. p. line the wing is paler to the narrow, sinuate s. t. line, 

 which is of the ground colour, usually followed and sometimes preceded 

 by black marks. A slender black terminal line followed by a yellowish 

 line at base of fringes, from which the fringes are cut interspaceally, the 

 yellow being interrupted by a brown interline. There is a somewhat 

 obscure median shade line, which is oblique over the reniform and runs 

 close to the t. p. line below the cell. Claviform concolorous, distinctly 

 black-ringed, short and broad, sometimes with a dusky shading across 

 the cell. Orbicular of good size, round or obliquely oval, a little paler, 

 incompletely black-ringed. Reniform upright, of good size, broadly oval, 

 a little darker than ground, obscurely black-ringed, the outer border 

 margined with white, forming the only conspicuous feature in the wing. 

 Secondaries smoky-fuscous, a little paler at base, fringes with a yellow line 

 at base. Beneath smoky, powdery, with a well-defined common extra 

 median line and a well-marked discal spot on secondaries. 



Expands: 1.15-1.32 inches = 29-33 mm. 



Habitat. — Huachuca Mts., Arizona. 



Three males and eight females, in fair condition, all of them from Dr. 

 Barnes, and all without date. The species is rather a well-marked one, 

 between ?ioverca and Goodelli. with the wing form of the latter rather than 

 the former. The little touch of white on the reniform lightens up the 

 wings materially. 



Mamestra sareta, n. sp. — Ground colour bluish ash-gray, head and 

 thorax somewhat powdery. Front crossed by a black transverse line 



