Notes and Descriptions, TVb. 2. 17 



Acronycta funeralis, n. sp. (Plate i, fig. 10, % .) 



Form of A . occidentalis ; the primaries are narrower, their apices 

 more produced. Pale bright prey; along internal margin a broad black- 

 ish shade, which spreads from base to t. p. line and diffusedly from the 

 sagittate marks which are characteristic of the genus, but which in this 

 species are evidently broader than usual, being about thrice broader 

 than in A. occidentalis. The ordinary spots are somewhat larger and 

 wider apart, the median space narrower, the geminate transverse lines 

 more approximate, the terminal spaces wider than in A. occidentalis. 

 The upper black streak beyond the disc, is entirely obsolete. Fringes, 

 whitish, neatly and narrowly interrupted with black between the ner- 

 vules. Secondaries whitish, semi-diaphanous, with a diffuse dark mar- 

 ginal shade, which is broadest at and below apical angle; uervules 

 covered with dark scales. Fringes white, narrowly and neatly inter- 

 rupted with black between the nervules. Under surface of primaries 

 mostly pale blackish with a sub-testaceous tinge, largely whitish along 

 internal margin to the transverse subterminal line. Secondaries whitish; 

 a distinct blackish discal spot, a nervular interrupted baud and diffuse 

 terminal shade. A costal, diffuse, dark spot within the discal one. 

 Head, above, whitish; palpi whitish, with the second joints black on 

 the outside. A lateral black shade extending along; the outer margins 

 of the tegulae. Prothorax, thorax and patagia, pale grey. Abdomen 

 darker than thorax; beneath, white; anus fringed beneath with black 

 hairs. Legs, whitish; tarsi annulate with black; anterior tibia) blackish 

 on their inner surface. 



Exp. 9 1.50 inch, Length of body, 0.70 inch. 



Habitat. — Ohio. (Mr. Pettingill.) 



MAMESTSA. Ochs. 

 Mamestra Bridghamii, n. s. (Plate 3, fig. 1, £ .) 



Anterior wings pale grey with a bluish tinge; median space reddish- 

 brown, shaded with dark yellowish-olivaceous. Basal half-line whitish 

 with an internal marginal line; sub-basal space dark, sparsely shaded 

 with bluish grey scales. Transverse anterior line undulate, of a darker 

 shade than the median space, preceded by a coincident line of whitish 

 scales. Median space dark reddish-brown, below the disc mostly co- 

 vered with olivaceous scales. All the veins marked with greyish scales 

 interrupted by darker ones. A neatly defined reddish-brown median 

 shade line runs from costa to internal margin, angulated at the median 

 nervure. Orbicular and reniform spots yellowish-grey, of the normal 

 shape. Transverse posterior Hue similar to the transverse anterior 



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