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indicated by dark marks on the veins. The subterminal line is indicated 

 by a yellowish streak, nearly touching the margin between veins 3 and 4, 

 thence running obliquely inwardly and interrupted before internal margin. 

 Fringes finely cut with pale yellowish. There is a more prominent dark 

 streak along internal margin. It is smaller than the other species of the 

 genus, and must not be confounded with any of the varieties of Laphygma 

 frugiperda. With the identification of this species I think I have made 

 out all of Abbot's published Noctuidas. I am the first to re-discover 

 Adita chionanthi of Abbot, Bull. Buff. S. N. S., 2, 63. I have referred 

 Abbot's vidua to desperata Guen., and this reference has been generally 

 accepted. There is, finally, a little doubt with regard to my identification 

 of calycanihata, which perhaps cannot be removed until our species of 

 Homoptera are better known. 



Mamestra mucens (Hiibn.), Zutr. 415,. 16. 



This species is sent me under the numbers 704 and 705, by Mr. Bel- 

 frag**. Under the first number dark specimens, suffused with brown, are 

 included. They cannot be considered as anything but a variation of this 

 species, now for the first time recognized by me. The eyes are hairy and 

 I regard it as congeneric with and allied to the eastern confusa. The 

 species I have referred to Morrissonia are structurally allied to those 

 included by me under Mamestra, but the pattern of ornamentation is 

 distinctive of the forms included under Morrissonia.  Belfrage took 

 mucens March 10 to 23. Guenee' puts this species in " Xylophasia" which 

 contains a mixture of forms, some with hairy and some with naked eyes. 

 I have separated the species in this respect. 



Morrissonia vifidelis, n. s. 



$ . This name is based on a single male from Michigan which is in 

 good condition. Eyes hairy. Color of vomerina, but more reddish 

 brown. Collar pale and a pale spot at base of primaries ; a black line 

 edging the collar behind ; thorax rich reddish brown. Costa pale at base, 

 below median vein a rich red-brown shade extends outwardly, suffusing 

 the wing. Reniform L-shaped, the lower part open, brown-filled, pointing 

 to base of wing ; this is surmounted by the upright part of the spot which 

 is small. Orbicular small, oblique, lying over and touching the extension 

 of the reniform. The usual pale shade bordering vein 3 j terminally the 



