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Subterminal space shaded with brown, showing the pale ante-apical dots 

 distinctly. S. t. line marked with black before internal margin as in 

 vigilans. A scalloped pale terminal line, interrupting the brown fringes. 

 Hind wings blackish with pale terminal border and discal lunule. Beneath 

 shaded with reddish ; dark discal lunules, double common shade lines, 

 pale terminal border on both pair. Head and collar shaded with brown ; 

 pectus and legs blackish beneath ; abdomen purplish-brown. Front and 

 palpi blackish. Expanse 36 mil. Taken by Mr. Hill in September in 

 Lewis Co., N. Y. Allied to Hadena vigilans. 



Hadcna algens, n. s. 



$ . Eyes naked, with lashes. Head not prominent but, as vavigilans 

 and senescens, rather closely applied. Stone gray with inconspicuous 

 markings. Collar pale with narrow black edging. A slight black basal 

 dash. Lines and spots inconspicuous. Orbicular bordered on inside with 

 black, edged with pale, subquadrate ; reniform narrow, kidney-shape, both 

 spots upright, incompletely edged with black and pale scales. S. t. line 

 pale, irregular, marked with black on submedian fold. A terminal even 

 dotted black line. Hind wings dark gray, reflecting the double lines and 

 discal lunule of under surface. Beneath gray ; discal spot of primaries 

 open and nearly obsolete, on hind wings dark shade. The terminal space 

 on both wings paler than rest of wing. Expanse 30 mil. ; Maine, Prof. 

 Fernald. 



The three species here alluded to will be separated eventually from 

 Hadena, but at the moment I refer them to the typical genus of the sub- 

 group to which they belong. 



Mamestra noverca, n. s. 



£ $ . Eyes hairy. Male antenna; simple. Fore wings of a mossy 

 brownish olivaceous. Orbicular margined with black, open to costa, 

 rounded, moderate. Reniform pale, elongate, subquadrate, erect. T. p. 

 line double, pale centered, followed by points on the veins, outwardly 

 oblique to vein 4, thence inwardly oblique, nearly straight, below reniform 

 to internal margin. Subterminal line pale, irregular, preceded and followed 

 by black marks over the middle of the wing. Fringes concolorous, pre- 

 ceded by small black points and cut with pale. A black median basal 

 dash or shading. Thorax concolorous ; tegulae shaded with blackish. 

 Hind wings whitish at base with discal mark and broad smoky border. 



