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segment, and somewhat with gray ; along dorsum a double stripe partly 

 confluent and pale yellow, making in effect a distinct band ; the dorsal 

 spines dull white, tips black ; both lower rows pale yellow, tips black ; the 

 bristles short, divergent, and pale ; the spines on 2 a little turned forward, 

 but not longer than others ; feet and legs pale brown ; head sub-cordate, 

 black in front, dull yellow behind, with many short hairs. 



Chrysalis — Length .8 inch ; cylindrical, the wing cases much elevated, 

 the outer edges at base flaring ; head case square, transversely rounded ; 

 mesonotum prominent, compressed, carinated, followed by an angular 

 excavation ; the tubercles on abdomen very small, scarcely visible ; color 

 dark brown, mottled in shades, and with more or less golden-brown ; the 

 wing cases of one shade, dark, glossy. 



NOTES ON NOCTUIDiE. 



BY A. R. GROTE, BUFFALO, N. Y. 



Hadena passer. 



Mamestra .passer Guen., Noct. 1, 195. 

 Luceria loculata Morr., B. B. S. N. S., 2, nd. 



I have received from M. Achille Guenee' an outline drawing of his 

 Mamestra passer, and with the help of his description am enabled to 

 make the above identification. The black marks tying the reniform to 

 the t. p. line are variable, sometimes wanting ; the color varies from pale 

 reddish brown to dark brown ; the claviform is thick and usually solid, but 

 sometimes open ; the lines are usually effaced, but sometimes quite notice- 

 able ; the ornamentation is exceedingly simple. The eyes are naked, so 

 that, with several other species referred by Guenee' to Mamestra, as I have 

 previously shown, this form should be placed in Hadena. 



Marasmahts ventilator Grote. 



This species must be added to the Texan fauna ; Mr. Belfrage sends 

 me a specimen under the number 723, taken May 5. 



Anticarsia gemmatalis Hiibn. 



Collected in large numbers and great variety by Mr. Westcott, Racine, 

 Wis. Also by Mr. Belfrage in Texas (Nos. 724 to 729). It is some- 

 times quite gray with concolorous reniform ; again the reniform is whitish ; 



