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wings fuscous, paler at base and paler in the male ; the veins soiled. 

 Beneath pale nnd without markings ; there is a faint indication of a com- 

 mon line which appears dotted on hind wings of male. Arizona. Three 

 specimens. Coll. B. Neumoegen, Esq. 



HOMOHADENA VULNEREA, n. S. 



$ . Eyes naked, lashed. Tibi^ unarmed. Fore wings light brown. 

 T. a. line obsolete ; t. p. line black, single, well removed outwardly ; three 

 black median costal dots. A black dash at base below median vein. 

 Stigmata very small, inconspicuous, pale ; a black dash on cell on each 

 side of the orbicular. Veins finely black at extremity, else tending to be 

 pale. Fringes checkered. Thorax like fore wings. Hind wings pure 

 white. Beneath with only a common dotted exterior line. Arizona. Coll. 

 B. Neumoegen, Esq. Two specimens. 



This species is very simply marked. The eyes are plainly lashed, but 

 in the type of the genus, H. badistriga, after renewed examination, I am 

 not certain that they are, though I incline to regard them lashed. ' 



Mamestka Ferreai.is, n. s. 



Allied to Mamestra Cinnabar ina, var. Ferrea, but larger. Bright 

 brown. ( )rbi<;.ular circular, bright brown, with central dot. Reniform 

 upright, \er\- slightly medially constricted, with a central line hooked into 

 two dots. T. \). line double, black, with white included shade. Subter 

 minal space washed with whitish, leaving a brown patch at costa. Terminal 

 space narrow, brown at apex, afterwards blackish. Subterminal line whit- 

 ish, preceded by a narrow brown shading. A blackish shade between the 

 stigmata on cell. A blackish shade on costa over sub-basal space. Basal 

 half-line white. A broad shade submedially across median space, deepen- 

 ing before t. p. line, where it is cut by the brown median shade. Hind 

 wings fuscous, with extra-mesial line. Beneath primaries purply brown 

 with a black costal shade outside of the common extra-mesial line. Thorax 

 rather pale, collar and tegulse with black lines. Abdomen tufted, reddish 

 fuscous, somewliat brighter beneath. Montana. Mr. H. K. Morrison. 



Expanse of Noctiiidce. 

  The following measurements have been omitted in my late descriptions: 

 Fota armata, 32 mil. 



" minorata. 24 mil. 

 Fotella not a/ is, 28 mil. 

 Oxycnemis advcna, 21 mil. 



